Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Adaptive Co-Management: A Case Study of Narwhal Co-Management in Arctic Bay, Nunavut

• Main Author: Dale, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars Commons @ Laurier 2009
• Subjects: Natural Resources Management and Policy; Arctic; Arctic Bay; Baffin Island; Canada; Nunavut; Arctic bay; Baffin; inuit; narwhal*
• Online Access: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/931; https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/1930/viewcontent/MR54226.PDF

Since 2001 the community of Arctic Bay, located on north-western Baffin Island, in Nunavut, Canada, has been experimenting with a new approach to narwhal management—‘community-based’ narwhal managemet. The new management system has developed some decision-making powers to the local Hunters’ and Trap...