Principal Investigator:Lightfoot, Sheryl Licensed Year(s):
2017
Summary:
The main objective of this research is to generate a better understanding of agreement making in the resource extraction context. It will focus on negotiation as a critical component; existing work tends to emphasize agreement outcomes. Arguably the negotiation preceding agreement making requires further analysis. For example, how factors in this process impact upon or shape the agreement created ...
Principal Investigator:Pearce, Tristan D Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The proposed research aims to develop an understanding of how people in Paulatuk are experiencing and responding to changing climatic conditions and opportunities to support adaptation.
The objectives are to:
1) document and describe current and historical climatic risks and the adaptive strategies employed to deal with them;
2) identify the processes and conditions which have aided or con...
Principal Investigator:Cohen, Alice Licensed Year(s):
2016
20152014 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...
Principal Investigator:Kuntz, Janelle Licensed Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The objective of this research is to explore the value of Tlicho women's traditional knowledge (TK) in the environmental assessment of the NICO project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited.
Primary research questions include:
•What types of traditional knowledge were Tlicho women sharing in the context of the TK study interviews and public hearings?
•How did the process of the TK study influenc...
Principal Investigator:Rodon, Thierry Licensed Year(s):
2015
2014 Summary:
This project will bridge this knowledge gap by achieving the following three objectives:
1) to make a list of various methods used by Aboriginal communities and organizations to distribute royalties and profit shares paid by resource companies;
2) to identify the characteristics of each modes of distributions and their positive and negative outcomes; and,
3) to identify the most sustainable pra...
Principal Investigator:Fletcher, Alana Licensed Year(s):
2015
2014 Summary:
The major objective of this proposed 2015 fieldwork is twofold. Firstly, the principle investigator (PI) aims to conduct a comprehensive literature review of the mining- and environment-related materials held at the Déline Land Corporation in order to enrich their understanding of this history as it is understood by the community. Secondly, the PI wants to assist in the creation of a real archive ...
Principal Investigator:Wilson, Gary N Licensed Year(s):
2015
2014 Summary:
The research examines intergovernmental relations between the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) and other levels of government (territorial, federal) and the administration of various policy areas by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), alone or in conjunction with other regional bodies or other levels of government. This project will compare the self-government process in the ISR to that o...
Principal Investigator:Beveridge, Leah F Licensed Year(s):
2014
Summary:
A trip will be made to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories to conduct meetings and semi-structured interviews with representatives in the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), the Inuvialuit Development Corporation (IDC), the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, and regional offices of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Departments of Education, Culture and Employment (ECE);...
Principal Investigator:Goelman, Nadav Licensed Year(s):
2013
Summary:
The goal of this project is to develop a roadmap of policy and programming to encourage labour force adaptation, and healthy community development in Nunavut with research objectives being to: 1) pinpoint areas of potential risk to regional communities from economic development; 2) delineate between programs and policy options that advance adaptation and those that mitigate the adverse side effect...
Principal Investigator:Beaulieu, Michel S Licensed Year(s):2014
2013
Summary:
The primary purpose of this research project is to determine how key recommendations from the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry (commonly referred to as the Berger Inquiry or, for the purpose of this research, the Inquiry) have affected oil and gas development in the Northwest Territories (NWT) over the past thirty-six years. Through analysis of the Inquiry and the recommendations that resulted fr...