Understanding Socio-Ecological Changes in Inuvialuit Fishing Livelihoods and Implications for Food Security: The Role of Local and Traditional Knowledge

• tracking change Local and Traditional Knowledge in Watershed Governance

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Heredia, Iria

• The Mackenzie Delta is an ecologically-rich freshwater environment in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It is vulnerable to multiple stressors such as climate change, resource development activities (oil and natural gas) and upstream-downstream linkages related to extraction activities in the southern part of the Mackenzie watershed. Resultant socio-ecological impacts affect fishing livelihoods, which represent a significant component of traditional food systems and ways of life for Inuvialuit.

  This research seeks to effectively mobilize Inuvialuit Knowledge to explore the interconnection between socio-ecological changes in the Mackenzie Delta, fishing livelihoods and food security.

• Date created

  2017-11-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Socio-Ecological Changes
  • Watershed Governance
  • Food Security
  • Fishing Livelihoods
  • Local and Traditional Knowledge

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-gw68-1368

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International