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Rural and Northern Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Principal Investigator: Hampton, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
Summary: This study will: 1. Integrate several sources of data to create an action plan that maps the socio-spatial problem of intimate partner Violence; 2. Create narratives describing community response in rural and northern areas of the Prairie Provinces and the NWT; and 3. Generate a grounded theory as a practical tool to create and sustain non-violent communities in these regions of Canada. The...


Vulnerability and Resilience in Aboriginal Communities: The Effects of Mining as a Change Agent in the Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Gibson, Ginger
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: This PhD-level research project is focussed on the impacts of the diamond mining economy on the wellness and resilience of aboriginal individuals and their families. The objectives of this research are to: 1) understand the factors that help Dene and Métis workers move into and work well in the diamond mines; 2) understand what the lived experience and change is like for miners as they become a pa...


Understanding the Need for Novel Forms of Environmental Governance
Principal Investigator: Galbraith, Lindsay
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: This research is concerned with increasingly fractious relations between mining firms and local communities in Canada's hinterlands, and the systems of governance that aim to mediate these relations. More specifically, this research seeks to understand t...


Community Wellness in the Northwest Territories: Indicators and Social Policy
Principal Investigator: Gerein, H.J.
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The purpose of this study is to draft, validate, and test a pilot instrument that results in an index of wellness or overall condition of each community in the Northwest Territories. This measurement and index of community condition are proposed as a new language to northern planning and policy setting. Using Canadian population and urban area performance levels and existing Government of the Nor...


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