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OCLC number
933724697
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Author
Tyson, William,
Title
Assessing the cumulative effects of environmental change on wildlife harvesting areas in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region through spatial analysis and community-based research
Degree
M. Sc. -- University of Victoria, 2015
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : [University of Victoria], [2015]
©2015
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Supervisor: Lantz, Trevor Charles.
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the School of Environmental Studies.
Available to the World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
Arctic ecosystems are undergoing rapid environmental transformations. Climate change is affecting permafrost temperature, vegetation structure, and wildlife populations, and increasing human development is impacting a range of ecological processes. Arctic indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to environmental change, as subsistence harvesting plays a major role in local lifestyles. In the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), in the western Canadian Arctic, indigenous land-users are witnessing a broad spectrum of environmental changes, which threaten subsistence practices. Local cumulative effects monitoring programs acknowledge the importance of subsistence land use; however there are few cumulative effects assessments that measure the impact of environmental change on land-based activities. My MSc addresses this gap with a broad-scale spatial inventory that measures the distribution of multiple disturbances in the mainland ISR, and assesses their overlap with community planning areas, land management zones, and caribou harvesting areas. I also generated nine future disturbance scenarios that simulate increases in both human development and wildfire occurrence, in order to understand how additional environmental change may affect the availability of un-impacted harvesting lands.
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Subject
Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) Marxan Indigenous knowledge Wildlife Subsistence harvesting