Principal Investigator:Barnes, Justin Licensed Year(s):
2018
Summary:
This research project will attempt to determine if one of the Canadian federal government’s primary policy approaches to exert its authority over its Arctic territories and territorial waters has been to ‘securitize’ environmental issues that it perceives as vulnerabilities or risks to the state. Ultimately, the purpose of this research project is to determine the degree at which environmental sec...
Principal Investigator:Freeman, Lisa Licensed Year(s):
2017
Summary:
The relationship between resource development, affordable housing and government interventions in northern communities is a long and complicated one. Housing insecurity has been a concern in the Northwest Territories (NWT) since the establishment of settlements and the introduction of state-run housing programs in the mid-20th century. Chronic housing need is worsening in many settlement communiti...
Principal Investigator:Beaulieu, Michel S Licensed Year(s):2014
2013
Summary:
The primary purpose of this research project is to determine how key recommendations from the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (commonly referred to as the Berger Inquiry or, for the purpose of this research, the Inquiry) have affected oil and gas development in the Northwest Territories (NWT) over the past thirty-six years. Through analysis of the Inquiry and the recommendations that resulted fr...
Principal Investigator:Stuhl, Andrew T Licensed Year(s):
2011
2010 Summary:
There are several goals for this research project. The first is to reach a greater understanding of the broad patterns of scientific research, natural resource development, and environmental change in the Beaufort-Delta from 1889 until today. The second goal for this research is to follow a public-scholarship approach throughout the research process, from developing and refining the research que...
Principal Investigator:Slowey, Gabrielle A Licensed Year(s):
2007
Summary:
The purpose of this research is to investigate community concerns, including what are they, how and why these concerns have changed over time, how they are reflected in land-claim agreements and may affect their future self-government agreement.
Other objectives are: To identify ways in which the state, in the past two decades, has created policies which may have proven beneficial and liberatin...
Principal Investigator:Christensen, Julia B Licensed Year(s):2009
2007
Summary:
This research explores how homelessness increases amidst unprecedented economic growth in the Northwest Territories (NWT). The project identifies causes of homelessness in the NWT; assesses impacts of economic growth on issues of housing and homelessness, and projects patterns of homelessness as they relate to expected economic growth through the Mackenzie Gas Project.
Fieldwork for this resear...
Principal Investigator:Armitage, Derek Licensed Year(s):
2003
Summary:
In Indonesia, indigenous groups are articulating a demand for rights to lands and resources and a greater role in processes of development and change. There is also an increasing emphasis on negotiating partnerships and collaborative management arrangeme...
Principal Investigator:Kary, Alan Licensed Year(s):
1989
Summary:
Mr. Kary will conduct interviews with aboriginal leaders and the Government of the Northwest Territories in order to gather information regarding attitudes toward petroleum resource development....