Knowledge Production and Policy in the Arctic: The Political Ecology of the Thick-billed Murre ...
In Greenland, and across the Arctic, subsistence hunting has always been a critical part of the survival of Indigenous groups and their complex moral economies. For many Inuit and Inughuit communities in Greenland, this critical relationship with hunted animals, like the seabird the thick-billed mur...
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2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/39713 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/114593 |
| Summary: | In Greenland, and across the Arctic, subsistence hunting has always been a critical part of the survival of Indigenous groups and their complex moral economies. For many Inuit and Inughuit communities in Greenland, this critical relationship with hunted animals, like the seabird the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia or “Appa/Appat” in Greenlandic), has remained an important aspect of life even after Danish colonization, Home Rule, and Self-Government have changed the political and economic landscape in the country over the last 200 years. Within the last three decades, however, the thick-billed murre population in Greenland has been facing a decline with some colonies being lost in Southwestern Greenland, which has become the focus of scientific research conducted by seabird biologists in Greenland. This research, and the recommendations made by scientists based upon it has led to stricter hunting regulations and quotas affecting the relationship between hunters and their environment. In this case study of the ... |
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