Accessing and Mobilizing “New” Data to Evaluate Emerging Environmental Impacts on Semi-Aquatic Mammals

• Published in: Land
• Main Author: Glynnis A. Hood
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: data sources; Indigenous knowledge; industrial development; semi-aquatic mammals; Athabasca River; Canada; Wood Buffalo; Peace-Athabasca Delta; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/land9100345

This paper describes how knowledge mobilization evolved during a study that assessed a proposed increase in industrial water withdrawals from the Athabasca River in northern Alberta, Canada, and potential impacts on a suite of freshwater semi-aquatic mammals in the broader ecosystem. The oil sands r...