Principal Investigator:Keats, Beth Licensed Year(s):
2018
Summary:
This is the 3rd Phase of the research program looking at how Indigenous Knowledge is included in GNWT decision making and understanding cumulative impact management. The first phases consisted of a literature review, analysis of Reasons for Decisions in environmental assessments (EAs), and qualitative analysis of interviews in Phase 1 & 2, and yielded recommendations for decision-makers and TK res...
Principal Investigator:Cohen, Alice Licensed Year(s):
2016
20152014 Summary:
The objectives of this project are to: 1) highlight the specifically northern dimensions of resource governance in environmental geography; 2) contribute to ongoing resource governance development in southern NWT; 3) further geographic (and specifically, scalar) scholarship on the political dimensions of ecosystem governance; and, 4) understand and theorize the relationship(s) between ecosystem go...
Principal Investigator:Kofinas, Gary P Licensed Year(s):
2007
Summary:
The objective of this study is to determine what techniques caribou co-management arrangements are using to address industrial development in caribou ranges, what impacts they are having, and how they may increase their impacts if needed.
One of the pervasive threats facing caribou populations is habitat change. Habitat changes may occur due to a variety of reasons, including industrial develo...
Principal Investigator:Bocking, Stephen Licensed Year(s):
1994
1993 Summary:
The researchers will complete their data collection activities in the NWT. All available literature on Mackenzie Basin aquatic science and environmental management will be catalogued and reviewed in order to identify appropriate criteria for the evaluation of aquatic science activities in the region. The results of this study will assist in coordinating existing and future research activities as...
Principal Investigator:Elliot, Nancy Licensed Year(s):1994
1993
Summary:
As part of a study that includes all Canadian World Heritage Sites, the researcher will visit Wood Buffalo National Park and Nahanni National Park Reserve in order to study current resource management issues. The researcher will conduct interviews with park personnel to gain first-hand knowledge and appreciation of the regional characteristics of these sites as well as specific management issues....