Challenges in community-research relationships: Learning from natural science in Nunavut

Arctic

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-74

  Gearheard, Shari ^a,b   Shirley, Jamal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Nunavut Research Institute ^*  (Canada)

^c Nunavut Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communities; Inuit; Nunavut; Participatory research; Research methods; Science; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESEARCH PROGRAM; RESEARCH WORK; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 34248384342     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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