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:Johnson, Noor Licensed Year(s):
2015
Summary:
The Principal Investigator (PI) will examine how different people involved in energy development decision-making, including residents, environmental organizations, government, land claims organizations, and corporations, perceive the risks and possible benefits of different energy options. In particular, it will focus on the role of different sources of knowledge (science, Inuit knowledge) and ho...
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...