Governance Arrangements

​Our team strives to work at the intersection of science, traditional knowledge, and legal systems to bring clients a unified and diverse governance arrangement. We facilitate conflict resolution, design institutional architecture, optimize benefit sharing, and implement enforcement to ensure the client's objectives, culture, and rights. Our team has experience in advising Aboriginal governments and communities, national, state/provincial and local governments, NGOs, and the private sector. Some specific examples include: 

• Strengthening environmental institutions (Bangladesh)
• International water and energy agreements (Canada) 
• International trade agreements (Province of British Columbia) 
• Water and energy agreements (Province of British Columbia) 
• Devolution of the authority over water from the federal government (Yukon Territorial Government) 
• Transboundary pollution in an international river (Washington State) 
• Devolution of authority over offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation from the federal government (North West Territories Territorial Government) 
• Emergency disaster response (United States Federal Emergency Management Authority) 
• First Nations fisheries allocation and co-management (Tsawwassen First Nation) 
• Agreements for development of water and energy resources on international rivers (Nepal Water and Energy Commission Secretariat) 
• International water and energy agreements on an international river (Lawson Lundell LLP) 
• Agreements for development of water and energy resources on international rivers (Columbia Power Corporation) 
• Environmental impact assessment hearings (British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association) 
• Agreement regarding a transboundary conservation area involving a major international river (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society) 
• Run of the river power production (McAlister Hallam LLP)