Tracking Change Research Project Framework - Guiding Principles for Collaboration

• Main Author: Tracking Change
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: tracking change; community-based research projects; guidelines for collaboration; research framework; local and traditional knowledge; Mackenzie River; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/3f2f3fc0-2537-44c3-9e3c-1dc48240facd; https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-nz50-1k74

The Tracking Change… project was developed in recognition that many peoples in the Mackenzie River Basin, particularly Indigenous peoples, have valuable insights about the social and environmental sustainability of the Basin. Many land users (hunters, trappers, fishers, berry harvesters etc.) have been observing and experiencing what is going on with the land, water, fish, geese/ducks, wildlife in the same way, using the same signs/signals for many generations. Such tracking of environmental change has been more than a technical process of monitoring; people watch, listen, learn and communicate about change because they care about the health of the land and the health of their communities. This document provides the research project framework and guidelines for collaboration.