Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung)

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 45-80

  Laidler, Gita J ^a   Elee, Pootoogoo ^b   Ikummaq, Theo ^b   Joamie, Eric ^b   Aporta, Claudio ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Island; Climate change; Inuit knowledge; Nunavut; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892297687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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