NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4933. The goal of this project is to create an edited volume (a book) on best practices in modern treaty implementation from Indigenous Governments across Canada. The research team want this volume to be a well researched, accessibly written, and academically rigorous series of case studies of treaty implementation methods ...

Principal Investigator: Dawson, Jackie
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4789. The three objectives are to: 1. Bring together a wide range of participants for the discussion of Inuit and Northern involvement in a governance structure for federal engagement on the Arctic Low Impact Corridors Initiative; 2. Advance the conversation about Inuit and Northern involvement in Arctic Shipping Corridor...

Principal Investigator: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2019 2019 2017 2016
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4369. Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance is a six-year research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and led by the University of Alberta, Mackenzie River Basin Board, and the Government of the Northwest Territories in collaboration with many other value...

Principal Investigator: Wright, David V.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The objectives of this project are to: 1) generate an evidence-based account of the use and non-use of modern treaty dispute resolution mechanisms; 2) compare similarities and differences between existing dispute resolution provisions across modern treaties; 3) situate modern treaty dispute resolution mechanisms and practices within the broader landscape of civil dispute resolution in Indigeno...

Principal Investigator: Bakker, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017
Summary: The goal is to enhance effective, equitable Indigenous co-governance of water resources through pursuing five objectives: 1)Critically conceptualize the potential for reciprocal coordination of, and complementarity between, evolving common ("Western") and Indigenous water law and governance frameworks; 2)Develop innovative methods for co-researching Indigenous Water Governance, based on collabor...

Principal Investigator: Noble, Bram F
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016
Summary: This project will determine what information Regulators require about cumulative effects or conditions in order to make informed decisions regarding development impacts to water quality in the NWT, and whether and how that information is, or can be, provided through NWT Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program (CIMP) or other agencies responsible for monitoring. The objectives are as follows: 1)...

Principal Investigator: Connell, Taig J. M.
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objective of this research is to help the Tetlit Gwich’in Band Council (TGBC) organization become more transparent in the eyes of the membership. Concerns from the membership indicate that the good work council is doing is not been accurately represented, more effort needs to be made by council to be seen doing the work they profess they do. To address these concerns this research will focus o...

Principal Investigator: Bone, Robert M.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The Inuvialuit Final Agreement has brought much change to the Western Arctic. This Agreement has involved the transfer of capital, land and political power to the Inuvialuit. This study hopes to determine the effect of the IFA on the Inuvialuit. The researchers will collect data from public sources (Statistics Canada censuses, Labour Force surveys) as well as reports provided by the Inuvialuit ...

Principal Investigator: Muir, Magdelena A.K.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The researcher will revise and publish a manuscript which presents a legal and administrative analysis of the land claim agreements and their effect on water management in the Northwest Territories....