NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Riva, Mylene
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5341. The expected value of this project is to respond to a community-identified need in the Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk to better understand the social, cultural, and economic impacts of climate change in the community. Gathering information on community values, priorities and needs is necessary to inform appropriate climate cha...

Principal Investigator: Bagelman, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5433. This project addresses Arctic Ecosystems and their Impact on Inuit Communities. This project asks the two-fold question: how does climate change impact Inuit youth and what are the resilience factors that enhance well-being? The project is especially interested in innovative forms of adaptation key to continued surviv...

Principal Investigator: Skinner, Kelly
Licensed Year(s): 2021 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4936. This research aims to learn from and enhance community capacity to address priorities and inform both climate change and food security action and support-structures at local, regional, and territorial scales. This research will examine questions related to food security and climate change across the four cross-cut...

Principal Investigator: Bagnall, Desiree
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4598. The purpose of this case study is to bridge the knowledge gap between western ways of knowing and Inuvialuit ways of knowing of climate change, mitigation, vulnerability, adaptation, and resiliency and how this correlates with community tourism development as a strategy for economic diversification. The research quest...

Principal Investigator: Thom, Brian
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The methods used will be a mixed method approach consisting of literature review, interviews and focus groups. I will also incorporate Indigenous methodology, based on literature written by Indigenous scholars. At this point, it is unclear what that approach will be, though there is the general understanding that everything is related, and effects others in the interconnectedness of the cycle of...

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: Parlee, Brenda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2019 2019 2017 2016
Summary: The broad goal of the project is to create opportunities to collaboratively document and share local and traditional knowledge (LTK) about social-ecological change in the Mackenzie River Basin, Lower Mekong, and Lower Amazon Basins and determine its’ role in watershed governance. The project will fund 8-10 community-based and collaborative research activities in the Mackenzie River Basin that deal...

Principal Investigator: Bennett, Mia
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016
Summary: In light of rapid environmental alterations due to climate change and the Canadian North’s history of boom-and-bust cycles, this research has two objectives. The first is to understand the perspectives of residents in Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and government representatives in Yellowknife on the replacement of the seasonal ice road with a permanent all-weather road. The second is to discern who will ...

Principal Investigator: Pearce, Tristan D
Licensed Year(s): 2016
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to: 1. describe the beluga-Inuvialuit linked social-ecological system; 2. characterize Inuvialuit traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of beluga whale: ecology and behaviour, hunting techniques, and food preparation; 3. document current stresses affecting beluga and Inuvialuit hunters and adaptive responses; and, 4. identify opportunities for TEK ...

Principal Investigator: MacDonell, Hillary J.
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: To examine community adaptation readiness in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), Northwest Territories in order to identify trends in the adaptive readiness of communities in the ISR and provide recommendations to local and regional governments concerning existing gaps or barriers that may be hindering community readiness. The Principal Investigator will conduct informal phone interviews wi...