Sökning: "inuit communities"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden inuit communities.

1. 1. Melting Security – Indigenous Livelihood in the Canadian Arctic

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Lisa Pohl; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Paris Agreement; Climate Change; Inuit; Nunavut; Societal Security; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The COP21 Paris Agreement is considered a milestone on the way to limiting global warming to 1.5°C. For the first time in history, a climate convention is signed by all 198 members of the UNFCCC, with each signatory state being responsible for developing their own climate strategy that considers the national circumstances. LÄS MER

3. 2. Ensam är inte stark i ett smältande men lukrativt Inuit Nunangat

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Elias Wergelius; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Arctic governance; Indigenous governance; Climate governance; Nunavut; Canada; Canadian politics; Northwest Passage; Mary River mine; Polycentric Governance; Post colonialism; Inuit governance; Local governance; Content analysis; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : This comparative case study aims to analyze the strategies and levels of influence that local political actors in Nunavut, often with a clear representation of indigenous Inuit and First nation communities, assert towards larger monocentric actors at national and global levels of policy making. This by using the primary theory of Polycentric governance and additional postcolonial perspectives on the cases and policy processes of the Mary River mine expansion project, together with the implementation of Canada’s new Arctic framework of shipping and sovereignty linked to the emerging Northwest passage. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Case for Icebreakers

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Författare :Griffith Couser; [2016]
   Nyckelord :sustainable development; Arctic; Inuit; icebreaker; united states; coast guard; alaska; environmental security;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis assesses the potential success of the United States’ newly assumed role as chairman of the Arctic Council in light of its own record of development in Alaska, its only Arctic territory. Using primary and secondary qualitative research, perspectives from multiple stakeholders are analyzed to assess the United States’ current capabilities in the Arctic versus its rhetoric and responsibilities. LÄS MER

5. 4. "Walking in two worlds and not doing too well in either" : investigating vulnerability and climate change in Nunavut, Canada

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Författare :Kathleen Whitfield; [2012]
   Nyckelord :inuit traditional knowledge; food security; ethnography; Arctic climate impacts; adaptive capacity; sustainability science; inuit communities; hunting; vulnerability scoping diagram; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Arctic communities are currently experiencing the effects of climate change. This paper contributes to a growing body of vulnerability and adaptation research in the Arctic. This case study provides an assessment of current vulnerabilities and offers insight into how climate change is experienced in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. LÄS MER