Generation and Transmission of Environmental Knowledge and Land Skills in Adaptation to Climate Change in Ulukhaktok, NWT

• Main Authors: Pearce, T, Smit, B, Notaina, R, Kudlak, A, Kuneyuna, Z, Wright, Harold
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: ArcticNet Inc. 2009
• Subjects: FoR 1601 (Anthropology); FoR 0502 (Environmental Science and Management); Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Ulukhaktok; Climate change; inuit; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/asm2009/docs/asm2009_programme_long.pdf

This presentation reports on research that documents and describes how environmental knowledge and land skills are being generated and transmitted among Inuit in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. In previous research in the Arctic, Inuit have expressed concern that as a result of rapid soci...