Principal Investigator:Wray, Kristine E J Licensed Year(s):2021
2019
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4406.
The research team seeks to document an oral history of the growth of the commercial fishery from the community perspective in terms of four stages: the Dene fishery (up to 1944), the early commercial fishery (1945-1969), federal management by the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation (1970-2018), and the present phase...
Principal Investigator:Fresque-Baxter, Jennifer Licensed Year(s):
2018
Summary:
The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) and Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) have joined with research partners in communities, Canadian universities, and throughout the NWT, including the Northwest Territories Métis Nation (NWTMN), to conduct research on the state of country food systems in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Jennifer Fresque-...
Principal Investigator:Pruys, Sarah Licensed Year(s):
2018
Summary:
The first objective of this research is to explore established and emerging research on how Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) interact in Canada and across the world, and examine what solutions have been proposed thus far. The Principal Investigator (PI) will build on this research by working in collaboration with local Indigenous communities using a community-based...
Principal Investigator:Fresque-Baxter, Jennifer Licensed Year(s):2019
2018
Summary:
The Aurora Research Institute (ARI) and Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) have joined with research partners in communities, Canadian universities, and throughout the Northwest Territories (NWT), including Akaitcho Territory Government, to conduct research on the state of country food systems in the NWT. Jessica Dutton and Jennifer Fresqu...
Principal Investigator:Parlee, Brenda L Licensed Year(s):201920192019
2017
2016 Summary:
The broad goal of the project is to create opportunities to collaboratively document and share local and traditional knowledge (LTK) about social-ecological change in the Mackenzie River Basin, Lower Mekong, and Lower Amazon Basins and determine its’ role in watershed governance. The project will fund 8-10 community-based and collaborative research activities in the Mackenzie River Basin that deal...
Principal Investigator:Bharadwaj, Lalita A Licensed Year(s):
2014
2013 Summary:
In collaboration with the Slave River and Delta Partnership (SRDP) and local communities, the research team will develop a Community Based Monitoring (CBM) program titled the Slave Watershed Environmental Effects Program (SWEEP), to empower communities to collect, interpret and use a system of environmental indicators to address these priorities. The focus will be on indicators of cumulative effec...
Principal Investigator:Borowitz, Michelle A Licensed Year(s):
2013
201220112010 Summary:
The objectives of this study are to:
- conduct collaborative research that respects Aboriginal knowledge and acknowledges that knowledge is specific to a community and its traditional territory, and that each community has their unique way to deal with issues, its unique responses, and its unique way of understanding;
- disseminate Aboriginal knowledge that represents Aboriginals themselves and ...
Principal Investigator:Robinson, Andrew Licensed Year(s):
2012
Summary:
The objectives of this research are to build up baseline reports on the social/economic and land and resource use conditions in the research area. The objectives of the Traditional Knowledge (TK) research is to compile a baseline report on TK for future consideration in the Environmental Assessment
Socioeconomic Research:
Length of interviews - typically lasting approximately an hour, longer i...
Principal Investigator:McLachlan, Stephane M Licensed Year(s):
2012
2011 Summary:
The overall goal of this project is to better understand and communicate the implications of industrial activity associated with the Athabasca tar sands and large scale hydro developments for environmental and human health as it affects the downstream Aboriginal communities.
The team completed Phase One of this project (collection of video and interview materials related to observed changes in ...
Principal Investigator:Sandlos, John K Licensed Year(s):2013
2012
201120102009 Summary:
The research team will work closely with members of four NWT communities to identify the historical and continued impacts of abandoned mines adjacent to their communities. The research team will ask how mineral development impacted the social life, economic prospects and local environments of Northern communities throughout the twentieth century, considering carefully the connections between socia...