'As long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and grass grows': Vulnerability, adaptation and environmental change in deninu kue traditional territory, Northwest Territories

Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-189

  Wesche, Sonia ^a,b   Armitage, Derek R ^b  

^a National Aboriginal Health Organization   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dene; Environmental change; Fort Resolution; M tis; Mixed methods; Multi level perspective; Participatory research; Qualitative scenarios; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867686020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9174-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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