479 record(s) found in the location "Inuvialuit Settlement Region" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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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....


Inuit Clothing: A Study in the Transformation of Culture
Principal Investigator: Driscoll, Bernadette T.
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990
Summary: The researcher will examine indigenous clothing design and clothing change in the Kitikmeot region. She will record the historical change from fur to fabric clothing, as well as investigate the continuing importance of fur clothing to hunters and detail the social and economic significance of maintaining sewing skills within Inuit families. It will be the first anthropological study to examine c...


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....


Fieldwork for Book "Aboriginal Natural Resource Management in Canada"
Principal Investigator: Notzke, Claudia
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will collect information for a book on aboriginal natural resource management in Canada. The focus of the work will be concentrated with wildlife co-management, native participation in the design, use and management of new national park reserves and the question of how the settlement of claims ties in with current land use planning practices....


Community Adjustment to Extreme Geophysical Phenomena in Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Newton, John
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will investigate how communities cope with extreme geophysical phenomena such as flooding. By interaction with community residents and other officials he will determine what characteristics influence their ability to respond to events like flooding and whether community sustainability is affected by the interaction of the community and natural hazards....


Inuit Traditional and Modern Leadership from the Shamans' era to the up-coming self-government period; (2) Inuit Leaders, in the new political development
Principal Investigator: D'Anglure, Bernard Saladin
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research will involve the study of Inuit leaders and political development. How one became a leader among the Inuit, traditionally and in the present time using factors such as kinship, leadership, personal performance, authority and religious power will be be investigated....


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