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Arctic Science, 2020 Community-based monitoring is a promising strategy for collaboratively documenting knowledge that has become increasingly widespread among Indigenous communities, institutions, and governments across the Arctic.
Denis Ndeloh Etiendem +6 more
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Inuit parent perspectives on sexual health communication with adolescent children in Nunavut: “It's kinda hard for me to try to find the words” [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2014 Background: For Inuit, the family unit has always played a central role in life and in survival. Social changes in Inuit communities have resulted in significant transformations to economic, political and cultural aspects of Inuit society.
Gwen Healey
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Final Report of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study, Nunavut, Canada.
, 2000 As mandated by the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement of 1993, Inuit knowledge of bowhead whales in Nunavut, Canada was collected by means of 257 individual interviews with 252 Inuit hunters and elders in 18 communities during 1995 and 1996. During 1996 and 1997, follow-up workshops were held in eight of these communities where bowheads appear to be most ...
Hay, Keith +4 more
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Recognizing the Wealth of Knowledge in Inuit, First Nations, and Métis Communities
LEARNing Landscapes, 2021 In this interview, Carol Rowan recounts how she moved up North to Inukjuak, because she sought to live and learn with Inuit. Following her union with Jobie Weetaluktuk in 1984, and the subsequent births of their three Inuit children, she developed pedagogical approaches informed by and rooted in Inuit ontologies and epistemologies.
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]
, 2017 Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A. +3 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Social Indicators for Arctic Mining [PDF]
, 2011 This paper reviews and assesses the state of the data to describe and monitor mining trends in the pan-Arctic. It constructs a mining index and discusses its value as a social impact indicator and discusses drivers of change in Arctic mining.
Crow, Andrew +4 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is low in Greenland. Factors underlying the low prevalence may potentially protect against the development of DR. Comparing Greenlandic and Danish populations, this register‐based study explored differences in risk factors that may explain differences in DR prevalence.
Jonas Bjørn Skjøth +4 more
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Indigenous‐Led Adaptation to Complex Climate Risks in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pacific Island peoples have long histories of adapting to environmental changes, but recent climate change is now driving complex risks that unfold within rapidly shifting societal and environmental contexts. This study investigates how remote Indigenous communities in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, experience and want to respond to complex ...
Eric Lede +3 more
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