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The Hudson Bay Lithospheric Experiment (HuBLE) : Insights into Precambrian Plate Tectonics and the Development of Mantle Keels [PDF]

, 2015
The UK component of HuBLE was supported by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant NE/F007337/1, with financial and logistical support from the Geological Survey of Canada, Canada–Nunavut Geoscience Office, SEIS-UK (the seismic node of NERC ...
Bastow, I. D., Darbyshire, F. A., Eaton, D. W., Helffrich, G., Kendall, J.-M., Pawlak, A. E., Snyder, D. B., Thompson, D. A., Wookey, J.   +8 more
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Insights from the remote co‐creation of an Indigenous knowledge questionnaire about aquatic ecosystems in Kinngait, Nunavut

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023
There is growing interest in co‐developing research projects that more fully address the priorities of Indigenous communities throughout the Canadian Arctic and beyond.
Laurissa R. Christie, Allison K. Drake, Adam Perkovic, Aiviq Hunters and Trappers Association, Ooloosie Manning, Sheojuk Peter, Pudloo Qiatsuq, Steven M. Alexander, Vivian M. Nguyen, Karen M. Dunmall   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heroes for the helpless: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian national print media’s coverage of the food insecurity crisis in Nunavut

Canadian Food Studies, 2016
In northern Canada, the Inuit’s transition from a culturally traditional to a Western diet has been accompanied by chronic poverty and provoked high levels of food insecurity, resulting in numerous negative health outcomes.
Bradley Hiebert, Elaine Power
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The implementation of rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP) in two remote Arctic communities with a predominantly Inuit population, the Taima TB 3HP study

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2020
Background: The incidence of TB among Inuit is the highest in Canada. A significantly shorter latent TB infection (LTBI) treatment with rifapentine and isoniazid once weekly for 12 weeks (3HP) is now available in limited settings in Canada.
G. G. Alvarez, D. Van Dyk, R. Mallick, S. Lesperance, P. Demaio, S. Finn, S. Edmunds Potvin, M. Patterson, C. Pease, K. Amaratunga, C. Hui, D.W. Cameron, S. Mulpuru, S.D. Aaron, F. Momoli, A. Zwerling   +15 more
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The magnitude and economic replacement value of wild meat obtained from ‘recreational’ big game hunting in the United States

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Meat production has notable benefits for food security, nutrition and various production economies, but has elicited substantial negative environmental impacts. Recreational hunting provides an alternative to agricultural meat production for over 24 million hunters worldwide.
Shane P. Mahoney, Richard D. Honor
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of language provisions in the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement [PDF]

, 2003
The Nunavut Act and Nunavut Land Claims Agreement were negotiated in response to a plethora of needs and desires, as expressed by the Government of Canada, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Nunavut Tungavik Inc., an organization ...
Hust, Victoria, Tulloch, Shelley
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Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors

International Journal of the Commons, 2007
The academic literature contains numerous examples of the failures of both top-down and bottom-up common pool resource management frameworks. Many authors agree that management regimes instead need to utilize a multi-level governance approach to meet ...
Martha Dowsley
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Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut appear to have a different prevalence of forensic psychiatric patients, despite their comparable population and landmass sizes.
C. Upfold, C. Jentz, G. Chaimowitz, P. Heilmann, N. Nathanielsen   +4 more
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Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source