Local and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Tracking Socio-Ecological Changes in Inuvialuit Fishing Livelihoods

• Tracking Change: Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance -- Global Knowledge Symposium Thailand 2017

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Vazquez, Iria Heredia; Hynes, Kristin; Wesche, Sonia

• The Mackenzie Delta is an important freshwater system that is vulnerable to multiple stressors, including: climate change impacts in the Arctic; resource development activities (oil & natural gas), and upstream-downstream linkages. These pressures can affect traditional livelihoods, including fishing since the Inuvialuit rely on the land for their subsistence but also for their wellbeing. This research seeks to effectively mobilize Local and Traditional
  Knowledge (LTK) to understand the significance of social and ecological changes in Inuvialuit fisheries in the Mackenzie Delta. Key research questions:
  What are the social and ecological changes in freshwater systems that are currently observed by the fishers in the ISR? What are the indicators and methods used by fishers to identify and understand these changes? How do/are these changes affect/expected to affect fishing livelihoods and to a greater extent Indigenous communities in the ISR?

• Date created

  2017-04-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • climate change, resource development, upstream-downstream impacts, traditional livelihoods, socio-ecological change, indicators, Inuvialuit
  • Inuvialuit Region, Mackenzie River Basin, NWT, Canada

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-38zt-yr11

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International