Paper on Tribal Issues Related to Tribal Traditional Lifeways, Risk Assessment, and Health & Well Being: Documenting What We've Heard
Author:
The National EPA - Tribal Science Council
Date Published:
4/2006
Description:
The three TSC workshops resulted in a great deal of discussion by tribal representatives both on the short-term goal of integrating tribal traditional lifeways and subsistence lifestyles into EPA’s current risk ssessment process and the more long-term goal of developing a new environmental decision-making paradigm for EPA consideration. The following sections highlight and categorize some of the issues, ideas, and comments presented by the tribal representatives as these workshops. Section I presents the information provided during discussions by tribal participants regarding improving EPA’s current risk assessment process through the integration of tribal traditional lifeways and subsistence lifestyles into EPA’s current risk assessment policies and procedures. Section II presents the information provided by
tribal representatives regarding the potential development of a new environmental decisionmaking paradigm that would focus on human health and ecological well-being.
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