NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pollard, Wayne H
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 946. The objective of this research is to better understand the distribution of underground ice in hydrocarbon development areas. By identifying how much ice there is, the researcher wants to study how oil/gas activities and climate change could affect the land. Underground ice is one of the most unpredictable and problema...

Principal Investigator: Schryer, Rick Schryer
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008
Summary: The objective of this research is to conduct Traditional Land Use (TLU) and Traditional Knowledge (TK) studies in Behchoko, Whati, Gameti, Wekweeti, and Yellowknife with representatives from the Dogrib and the Métis. These studies will be part of obtaining permits to operate a mine at that location. Elders will be interviewed either individually or with other members of their cultural group (t...

Principal Investigator: Slowey, Gabrielle A
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The purpose of this research is to investigate community concerns, including what are they, how and why these concerns have changed over time, how they are reflected in land-claim agreements and may affect their future self-government agreement. Other objectives are: To identify ways in which the state, in the past two decades, has created policies which may have proven beneficial and liberatin...

Principal Investigator: McLafferty, Carly A
Licensed Year(s): 2007
Summary: The objective of this research is to examine resource decision-making processes associated with proposals for the Mackenzie Gas Project. In particular, the researcher would like to explore local experiences of resource development in the Sahtu region, and the ways in which people in the Sahtu region are engaged in consultation, regulation, and environmental assessment processes. It is the investig...

Principal Investigator: Christensen, Julia B
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2007
Summary: This research explores how homelessness increases amidst unprecedented economic growth in the Northwest Territories (NWT). The project identifies causes of homelessness in the NWT; assesses impacts of economic growth on issues of housing and homelessness, and projects patterns of homelessness as they relate to expected economic growth through the Mackenzie Gas Project. Fieldwork for this resear...

Principal Investigator: Armitage, Derek
Licensed Year(s): 2003
Summary: In Indonesia, indigenous groups are articulating a demand for rights to lands and resources and a greater role in processes of development and change. There is also an increasing emphasis on negotiating partnerships and collaborative management arrangeme...

Principal Investigator: Borisov, Andrian
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Studies in the Northwest Territories are a part of a comparative study of Canadian and Russian Norths to understand the problems and prospects for greater aboriginal self-determination. Areas examined included the level of aboriginal organization, at local, district and regional levels; the resources available to aboriginal peoples and their leadership to pursue collective interests; the types of...

Principal Investigator: Kary, Alan
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Kary will conduct interviews with aboriginal leaders and the Government of the Northwest Territories in order to gather information regarding attitudes toward petroleum resource development....

Principal Investigator: Henley, Thomas
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Research to prepare a strategic plan for renewable resource development in the N.W.T....