Evaluation of Approaches to Depicting First Nations, Inupiat and Inuvialuit Environmental Information in GIS Format: Options for the Handling of Spatial Information in the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-Op Database

• Main Author: Folliott, Jadah Elizabeth (Author)
• Other Authors: Duerden, Frank (Thesis advisor), Ryerson University (Degree granting institution)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Geographic information systems; Climate; Indigenous peoples; Arctic regions; Spatial analysis (Statistics); Aklavik; Arctic; Fort McPherson; Inuvik; Tsiigehtchic; Tuktoyaktuk; Yukon; caribou; Climate change; First Nations; glaciers; Ice; Inupiat; Inuvialuit; Old Crow; permafrost; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A497

As the pace of climate change continues to accelerate in the North, traditional environmental knowledge systems are increasingly recognized by researchers, land use planners, government agencies, policy-makers and indigenous peoples as important contributors to environmental impact and climate chang...