The value of a polar bear: Evaluating the role of a multiple-use resource in the nunavut mixed economy

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-56

  Dowsley, Martha ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; HUNTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; POLAR REGION; PROFITABILITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUBSISTENCE;

CANADA; NUNAVUT;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 77952671815     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.0.0035     Document Type: Article

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