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Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge

Global Environmental Change, 2010
Abstract Since the 1990s, local residents from around the Arctic have reported changes in weather predictability. Examination of environmental measurements have not, until now, helped describe what the local inhabitants have been reporting, in part because prior studies did not focus directly on the persistence aspect of weather.
E. Weatherhead, S. Gearheard, R.G. Barry
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Curating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Inuit Knowledge in the Qallunaat Art Museum

Art Journal, 2017
Installation view, Ilippunga: I Have Learned, 2016, Brousseau Inuit Art Collection, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (photograph by Daniel Drouin provided by MNBAQ) It is not only to make mo...
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Representing Traditional Knowledge: Resource Management and Inuit Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou

Society & Natural Resources, 2008
Comanagement regimes in Canada's North rarely include indigenous systems for understanding the environment. Mapped representations and accompanying narratives illustrating the collective knowledge of indigenous hunters can make unique management contributions.
Anne Kendrick, Micheline Manseau
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Co-producing maps as boundary objects: Bridging Labrador Inuit knowledge and oceanographic research

Journal of Cultural Geography, 2021
Climate change is affecting the marine environment in Nunatsiavut, leading to changing sea ice thickness and seasonal timing, and increasing water temperatures.
Breanna Bishop   +2 more
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Fuzzy logic modelling of anadromous Arctic char spawning habitat from Nunavik Inuit knowledge

Ecological Modelling, 2023
Anadromous Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus , Iqaluppik ) and their freshwater habitats are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Spawning habitats are critical to ensure the propagation of populations and the fisheries they support. However, detailed descriptions for river systems in the Canadian Arctic are limited, especially in the Nunavik ...
Véronique Dubos   +2 more
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Inuit knowledge and environmental assessment in Nunavut, Canada

Sustainability Science, 2015
Related climatic, socioeconomic and political pressures act on socio-ecological systems and drive change. Co-management boards such as the Nunavut impact review board (NIRB) in Canada’s north are linked, multi-level institutions that attempt to involve aboriginal stakeholders in decision making and collaborative learning through the application of ...
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