Essays about: "inuit traditional knowledge"

Found 2 essays containing the words inuit traditional knowledge.

1. 1. Locating Indigenous Agencies in Climate Policies of the Arctic : Positionalities of Indigenous People(s) and Traditional Knowledge in the Science-Policy Discourse of Climate Change

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Justiina Mattila; [2022]
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   Abstract : Indigenous people in the Arctic are recognized as being on front line of confronting the effects of changing climate as well as of the global measures taken for its management, however, remaining marginalized under the conventional ways of governing. This thesis examines the positionalities of indigenous people(s) and traditional knowledge in the science-policy discourse of climate change. READ MORE

3. 2. "Walking in two worlds and not doing too well in either" : investigating vulnerability and climate change in Nunavut, Canada

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Kathleen Whitfield; [2012]
   Keywords : inuit traditional knowledge; food security; ethnography; Arctic climate impacts; adaptive capacity; sustainability science; inuit communities; hunting; vulnerability scoping diagram; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Arctic communities are currently experiencing the effects of climate change. This paper contributes to a growing body of vulnerability and adaptation research in the Arctic. This case study provides an assessment of current vulnerabilities and offers insight into how climate change is experienced in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. READ MORE