From isotopes to TK interviews: Towards interdisciplinary research in Fort Resolution and the Slave River Delta, Northwest Territories

Arctic

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-87

  Wolfe, Brent B ^a,b   Armitage, Derek ^a   Wesche, Sonia ^a   Brock, Bronwyn E ^b   Sokal, Michael A ^b   Clogg Wright, Kenneth P ^b   Mongeon, Cherie L ^a   Adam, Margaret E ^b   Hall, Roland I ^b   Edwards, Thomas W D ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Environmental change; Hydroecology; Northern Canada; Paleolimnology; Partnerships; Resource management; Sustainability; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; PLANNING PROCESS; RESEARCH PROGRAM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CANADA; FORT RESOLUTION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; SLAVE RIVER DELTA;

EID: 34248329113     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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