Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Gwich'in Settlement Area
Tags: social sciences, aboriginal community, agreement negotiation, land claim, co-management, politics, protected area, cultural revitalization, national parks, conservation plan, lifestyle, management strategy, international analogy
| Principal Investigator: | Martin, Brad (2) |
| Licence Number: | 13667 |
| Organization: | Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2007
2004
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| Issued: | Jun 25, 2004 |
| Project Team: | Self |
Objective(s): This is a doctoral dissertation project in the field of history. The central objective of the project is to assess how the relationship between indigenous peoples and national park administrators in Alaska and northern Canada has changed during the second half of the twentieth century. More broadly, the project aims to explain how three recent political and legal movements - native land claims, environmentalism, and human rights - have influenced the management of protected areas in these regions. New conservation initiatives shaped by these critical developments have been pioneered in the North. Thus it is important to draw lessons from these efforts in order to provide direction in devising similar initiatives in other parts of the globe. This project examines the creation and management of three northern national parks (Ivvavik and Kluane National Parks in Yukon, and Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska) in order to put this important twentieth-century trend in its historical and political context.
