Transmission of Environmental Knowledge and Land Skills in Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arctic

• Main Author: Pearce, Tristan
• Other Authors: Smit, Barry
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Guelph 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Indigenous knowledge; Inuit; vulnerability; adaptation; knowledge transmission; land skills; Canada; Northwest Territories; Ulukhaktok; Climate change; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3004

This thesis investigates the relationships between skills transmission and human adaptation to climate change. Elements of the relationships are empirically examined in an arctic community to document how environmental knowledge and land skills (referred to hereafter together as ‘land skills’) are t...