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Barriers to and Opportunities for Indigenous Involvement in the Management of Chronic Wasting Disease in Alberta, Canada
DownloadSpring 2022
The management of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Alberta is a complex issue that affects multiple stakeholders, including Indigenous communities who highly value the affected species both nutritionally and culturally. Despite the relevancy of CWD management to the livelihoods of these...
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2020-11-10
NFRF-T LOI awarded in 2020: The scope of the project is novel in its combined concern with the well-being of Indigenous Peoples and the conservation of biodiversity; it is also unique in its intention to build capacity within Indigenous communities to document and mobilize knowledge about...
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2016-01-01
Potapov, Alex, Merrill, Evelyn, Pybus, Margo, Lewis, Mark A.
We develop a model of CWD management by nonselective deer harvest, currently the most feasible approach available for managing CWD in wild populations. We use the model to explore the effects of 6 common harvest strategies on disease prevalence and to identify potential optimal harvest policies...
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Empirical estimation of R0 for unknown transmission functions: The case of chronic wasting disease in Alberta
Download2015-01-01
Potapov, Alex, Merrill, Evelyn, Pybus, Margo, Lewis, Mark A.
We consider the problem of estimating the basic reproduction number R0 from data on prevalence dynamics at the beginning of a disease outbreak. We derive discrete and continuous time models, some coefficients of which are to be fitted from data. We show that prevalence of the disease is...
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Expert Opinions on the Potential Role of Indigenous Peoples in Wildlife Management in Alberta
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Management of cervids for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a challenging multi-stakeholderendeavour. This thesis focuses on the thoughts and perceptions of various experts regardingcervid management in Alberta, and the inclusion of Indigenous peoples and their knowledge.This research sought to...
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Fall 2021
Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action (Canada, 2015), there has been a movement to include Indigenous voices, epistemologies, and ontologies into institutions and systems to support Indigenization. The goal of the research is to gain insight into the...
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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK): Starting a conversation
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Adams, Catherine, Groten, Sean, Steinhauer, Patsy, Carbonaro, Michael
This paper examines educational technology integration in relation to Indigenous Knowledge (IK). In particular, we home in on Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), a popular way to conceptualize teacher knowledge in the 21st century, and consider how...
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Fall 2012
This study is a remembering and a regeneration of a specific segment of Cree Indigenous knowledge within Cree communities located along the Battle River in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This asks the question: “What is the Indigenous knowledge of the Battle River Cree warrior?” and is based on...
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Individual-based movement model of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) contacts and application to artificial attractants
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging prion disease in Canada that infects mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, and moose by direct and environmental transmission and is invariably fatal. CWD spread can be promoted at “hotspots” that attract deer, such as attractants that are created in...