Fostering Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Environmental Change in Sub-Arctic First Nations: The Use of Collaborative Geomatics, an Interactive, Web-based Informatics Tool

• Main Author: Barbeau, Christine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Environmental Change; First Nations; Collaborative Geomatics; Sub-arctic; Environmental and Resource Studies; Arctic; Attawapiskat; Fort Albany; Kashechewan; Climate change; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5891

The Western James Bay region of northern Ontario (the Mushkegowuk Territory) is home to some of Canada’s largest wetlands and most pristine ecosystems. This region is also home to approximately 10,000 Omushekgo Cree who inhabit four First Nation communities. Environmental change due to climate chang...