414 record(s) found in the location "Gwich'in Settlement Area" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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State of the Environment Reporting for Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Reid, John
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Green Plan, this ongoing study is required to: (1) publish a national report on the state of the environment at regular intervals, (2) develop a set of indicators that measure Canada's progress in achieving environmental goals, and (3) establish an ongoing capability to study resources at risk, ecosystem response and the impact of major disruptio...


Nation-wide Investigation of Aboriginal Peoples' Issues
Principal Investigator: on Aboriginal Peoples, Royal Commission
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The Royal Commission has a sixteen part mandate and a detailed research plan. Research will be conducted both in-house and by researchers who are contracted to examine specific research topics. One licence has been issued to the Deputy Director on behalf of the Royal Commission for the northern component of this comprehensive study. Both the mandate and the research plan are available from the ...


Needs Assessment of Women with Disabilities in the NWT
Principal Investigator: Christophers, Sandy
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The NWT Council for Disabled Persons will contact NWT Women's Groups and community representatives to develop contact lists for women with disabilities. In addition, the Council will develop and distribute a survey that helps to identify issues and concerns for women with disabilities. These issues will be summarized and recommendations will be made in light of these issues....


Mackenzie Basin Impact Study: Land Assessment
Principal Investigator: Cohen, Stewart
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The Mackenzie Basin Impact Study will assess the potential impacts of global climatic change on the region. The component on land assessment will determine possible changes in land capability. Information on resource management goals is needed so that the study can can assess whether changes in land capability might lead to conflicts over land use....


Impacts of Climate Change upon the Community of Aklavik, NWT
Principal Investigator: Aharonian, Dave
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will examine the ability of an aboriginal community to adapt to climate change by documenting past events which have been influenced by the climate. These events will be probed through the oral histories of the community members, especially elders. The views and perceptions as held by the community members, concerning future changes in climate will be determined....


Decision-Making Structures in Land Claims Settlement Areas: Implications for Sovereignty and Security
Principal Investigator: Zellen, Barry
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and his team will engage in a comparative analysis of the Alaska, Inuvialuit and Inuit land claims settlements and their respective decision-making structures, using a case-study review in three settlement areas. There will also be some additional comparison of James Bay and Northern Quebec settlements....


Planning for Conservation and Development: Park, Regional, and Ecosystem Approaches
Principal Investigator: Slocombe, D. Scott
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The researcher and his team will compare conservation and development planning methods and processes in several resource-based regions of the world to assess to what extent such processes take into account environmental and ecosystem problems and needs....


The Attitude to Labour and the Problems of the Adaptation of the Indigenous People of the North in the Condition of the Modern Technological Revolution
Principal Investigator: Popkov, Yuri V.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will determine the dependance of aboriginal employment on land and resources, growth and decline of oil company activity, price cuts on products of the traditional economy, the current system of social assistance, government economic policy, and the readiness of native people to enter the labour market now and in the future within the region....


Decentralization and Self-government as the Premises and Cause of Activating the Social Life of the Community.
Principal Investigator: Boyko, S. Vladimir I.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and his team will define the tendencies in the process of decentralization of traditional power structures and appearance of the new forms in the NWT to compare with similar trends in the North of Russia. They will investigate the driving forces of these changes, determine if the process is evolutionary and evaluate the role of cultural attitudes and formation of specific political...


Ecological Security in the Context of the Canadian Arctic
Principal Investigator: Langlais, Richard
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will interview a small number of people living and working in the eastern Arctic to discuss what ecological security means for different people and determine if there is any kind of ecologically significant ideas which could be applied in the future....


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