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Northern Spaces: Resource Governance in the Southern Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Cohen, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014
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...


Valuation of Water Resources and Water Security in Northern Canada
Principal Investigator: Dobias, Jacob
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The aim of this research project is to analyze and assess the impacts of the valuation of water on water security, sustainable water management and water use in Canada. This research will focus primarily on the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada, and local perceptions of water security. The objective is to determine how perceptions of water security affect the establishment of sustainable domes...


The Impacts of Caribou Co-management Arrangements on Development Activities in Caribou Habitat
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...


An evaluation of water management studies and their application to policy development in the Mackenzie Delta
Principal Investigator: Sprecher, Brent
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will visit Yellowknife to collect information on northern water management and climate change. Interviews will be conducted with interested researchers. In addition, the researcher will attend the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS) annual meeting to discuss the administration and structure of this large research program with MBIS members. This study will examine the role that su...


Royal Society evaluation of aquatic science in the Mackenze Basin
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...


Mackenzie Basin Impact Study: Land Assessment
Principal Investigator: Cohen, Stewart
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992
Summary: The Mackenzie Basin Impact Study will assess the potential impacts of global climatic change on the region. The component on land assessment will determine possible changes in land capability. Information on resource management goals is needed so that the study can can assess whether changes in land capability might lead to conflicts over land use....


Co-management: Northern Experience with Implications for Future Directions in Resource Planning and Management
Principal Investigator: Roberts, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The research is an evaluation of co-management practice in the Western Arctic as it is established under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. The study will use the Inuvialuit Wildlife Management Advisory Council for the NWT as the case study and will involve attending meetings and conducting key informant interviews....


The legal impact of land claim agreements on water management in the NWT
Principal Investigator: Muir, Magdelena A.K.
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The researcher will revise and publish a manuscript which presents a legal and administrative analysis of the land claim agreements and their effect on water management in the Northwest Territories....


Community Forestry in the Boreal Forest Zone
Principal Investigator: Ramsay, James W.J.H.
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. James Ramsay began preliminary discussions with GNWT Departments of Renewable Resources and Economic Development and Tourism regarding community economic diversification and local management of renewable resources. The resarech is intended to define a mechanism for developing forest management plans based on principles of self-determination, sustainable development and integrated resource mana...


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