NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Chugh, Pawan K
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5128. The research aims to assist economic arms of small and isolated communities develop criteria and indicators for their social and economic development. It also aims to enrich the academic debate on social impact investing and to explore funding policies and tools for social innovation and social finance. The expecte...

Principal Investigator: Lakhani, Sabrina-Ayesha
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4609. This project will use two focus groups and desktop research to identify current socio-economic benefits derived from Socio-Economic Agreements (SEAs) between mine operators and the Government of the Northwest Territories and to identify emerging technologies and their associated implications for regional development a...

Principal Investigator: Mulholland, Ron
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4528. The objective of this research is a continuation of the Principle Investigator’s (PI) previous 2016 case study research on processes, lessons and outcomes from development partnerships between Indigenous communities and mining companies. The PI has a draft case on the Tlicho Government relationship with DeBeers. This ...

Principal Investigator: Holtby, Dana
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: Through this project the Principal Investigator (PI) will explore how Canadian Northern Economitc Development Agency’s (CanNor's) Community Readiness Initiative (CRI) has influenced changes in planning for resource development in Nunavut, and more broadly in the North, through the following questions: 1) What are the origins and objectives of the CRI, and how do these extend, depart from, or oth...

Principal Investigator: O'Donnell, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013
Summary: This collaborative research project aims to study and document the development of the K’atl’odeeche First Nation (KFN) Community Network. It will introduce the history of technology development and use in KFN, including broader social, political, cultural, and economic contexts. The project focuses on KFN's community technology development initiatives, and specifically the KFN Community Network. I...

Principal Investigator: Goelman, Nadav
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The goal of this project is to develop a roadmap of policy and programming to encourage labour force adaptation, and healthy community development in Nunavut with research objectives being to: 1) pinpoint areas of potential risk to regional communities from economic development; 2) delineate between programs and policy options that advance adaptation and those that mitigate the adverse side effect...

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: Potvin, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Potvin will be discussing the format and content of his handbook on community economic development with various people in each community to make it more useful to everyone. He will also collect information from owners of small community businesses that can be used as examples in his handbook....

Principal Investigator: Habrich, W.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Research the work of the Renewable Resources Department, GNWT, DINA, department dealing with Economic Development & Tourism, environmental quality, the development of the NWT, spacial planning for the future, and native land use....

Principal Investigator: Prentice, Sandy
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To develop, through field testing, a methodological approach to examine (a) resident's view of types of tourism, (b) resident's perceptions of their roles in tourism development and (c) the perceived effects of such development....