NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Blanchfield, Caitlin
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5261. This research project asks how the settler colonial governments of the United States and Canada used federally-funded, cold-war era scientific research infrastructures to appropriate Indigenous lands during the second half of the twentieth century. The aim of the research is on the one hand to show the mechanisms by w...

Principal Investigator: Becker, Matilda L
Licensed Year(s): 2019 2018
Summary: To examine how the burgeoning use of digital technologies (Online Map Staking) and data (Geological data sharing) might have a cumulative impact on people’s land-based legal rights. This research is qualitative and will involve direct interaction with members of the scientific, indigenous, non-indigenous and government/non-governmental community based in Yellowknife. Specifically, the research...

Principal Investigator: Mak, Ida YL
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The ultimate objective is to determine ways for Aboriginal communities and organizations to optimize their participation in land use planning in the NWT. Ideally this will result in land use plans that will reflect the values and interests of the communities that they intend to serve. The first goal is to identify the internal challenges and barriers that Aboriginal communities and organization...

Principal Investigator: Weitzner, Viviane Anita
Licensed Year(s): 2004
Summary: The main objective of this project is to gather information from the experience of Lutsel K'e in negotiating with the government, BHP, and other mining companies to share with other indigenous communities facing large-scale mining activities on their anc...

Principal Investigator: Gladden, James N.
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: The main objective of the study is to look at institutional arrangements for involving nearby communities in land use planning for Ivvavik National Park. The researcher will compare these mechanisms for co-managing the wilderness park with case studies...

Principal Investigator: Povey, Andrew
Licensed Year(s): 2003 2002
Summary: Noise monitoring will be conducted in the Taglu lease and in the Swimming Point, Parsons Lake and Jimmy Lake regions. These data will provide estimates of background ambient noise which will be needed before construction of the Mackenzie Gas Project. Pr...

Principal Investigator: Chipeniuk, Raymond
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will test the usefulness of the repertory- grid technique for gaining an understanding of how people of different cultures think about natural and semi-natural landscapes, and will gather data to make cross-cultural comparisons of how people of different cultures think about natural and semi-natural landscapes. He will also study the initiation and pursuance of a proposal to have I...

Principal Investigator: Nelson, Gordon
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To outline a proposed study which would utilize a resource survey system, particularly the ABC method, as a basis for understanding how the Wood Bullo National Park has affected native people and vice versa. A full study of park/hinterland relations would be expected to produce significant results in future planning and management. The project would be discussed with park personnel and possible ...

Principal Investigator: McIntosh, Debbie
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To compile a resource inventory for the following areas: the Fort Norman block land transfer region, Drum (Wrigley) Lake, June Lake, Caribou Flats and Willow (Brackette) Lake; to produce a land use plan for these areas following input from the Hamlet Council as well as other interest groups and individuals....

Principal Investigator: Gibson, Dr. R.F. Keith, obert. B.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: Through the cooperation and participation of the agencies, groups and individuals involved in the environmental review and assessment process, the study will attempt to find practical means of improving overall effectiveness, effeciency and fairness of planning and project assessment in the territorial north. To assess by case study and discussion with agencies involved, what processes work well ...