Services in Canada

Cultural Sciences

Golder recognizes the importance of working with communities and respecting their past as well as their future.  Specialist consulting services include:

Archaeology:  focusing on cultural resource management, in particular, archaeological and historic sites, industrial heritage, cultural landscape and other aspects of the cultural record

Socio-economic Impact Assessment:  focusing on critical issues that potentially affect a project’s impact and success and recommending how to deal with key social and institutional concerns

Public Consultation and Stakeholder Analysis:  developing strategies for public participation in projects and for achieving multiple stakeholder objectives

Cultural Impact Assessment:  examining the cultural consequences of projects, particularly to indigenous  communities

Resettlement Action Planning: helping to design projects to have the least impact on affected communities and taking measures to minimize the effects of displacement

Increasingly, indigenous groups around the world are participating in the cultural sciences.  Golder is a strong advocate of this practice; indigenous people provide significant input and hiring locally contributes to economic and social sustainability.

Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity Training
Professionally-led training sessions offered on raising Aboriginal cultural awareness for clients who interact with Aboriginal people, businesses and communities.