Geraldine Forbes Isais, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, speaks about Lou Weller's life as an architect and supporter of the school.
Duration: 59:28.
The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 230, no. 1-3, June 1, 1999, pp. 1-82
Description
Reviews studies and identifies gaps in knowledge in the areas of: susceptibility, degree of exposure, health implications, and requirements for risk management.
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Ford
Barry Smit
Description
Comments on the changing climatic conditions that have increased the exposure of the community to climate related risks and the resulting coping strategies used by Inuit communities.
Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
Examines how the traditional activities of the Yukaghirs are determined by the landscape they inhabit and how their identity has managed to survive because of these traditional activities.
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 26, no. 4, April 1999, pp. 425-438
Description
Residue identification criteria used with 200 vessel samples taken from 18 Western Canadian sites to identify the food which had been cooked in the vessels.
Seachange, The Face-to-Face, Spring, 2010, pp. 51-80
Description
Looks at the history of Native Net, a nation-wide computer based multimedia communication network, and the development of CyberPowWow, an online gallery and chat room produced by the Aboriginal collective Nation to Nation.
Discussion on the effectiveness of a number of agreements negotiated directly between mineral resource developers and Aboriginal communities in support of three northern Canadian diamond mines.
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 1007-1018
Description
Results show little downside economically or nutritionally when replacing some "country food" with food from other sources, but few have actually altered their lifestyle perhaps because of the high value placed on the traditional economy.
Human Ecology, vol. 32, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 421-441
Description
Assesses the impacts of the 1984 change in Alaska fire policy from one of exclusion to one of management on Native land use in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife
Refuge.
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, vol. 67, no. 8-10, May 2004, pp. 791-808
Description
Survey of the Sencoten (Saanich) people and exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) via traditional foods including fish and aquatic resources.
Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 233-244
Description
Looks at Aboriginal participation in mine development and how more inclusive social and environmental development models can support a more equitable and sustainable development. Uses the Galore Creek Project as a case study.
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Report includes inquiries and responses regarding: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement Inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and Other Benefit Under Treaty 4 Inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation, Pottawatomi Rights Inquiry. Commissioners include: Daniel J. Bellegarde, P. E. James Prentice, Roger J. Augustine, Carole T. Corcoran, Elijah Harper, and Sheila G. Purdy. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 93-98
Description
Book review of:
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest edited by Robert Boyd.
An Anchored Radiance by Jay Miller.
Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 by Brad Asher.
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon.
Pardon Me If When I Talk Want to Tell the Story of My Life It's the Land I Talk About by Pablo Neruda.
Discussion of colonial and post-colonial theory and the relationship to the design of a pavilion.
Architectural History Paper--(McGill University?), 2010.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 31, no. 4, July 2010, pp. 445-450
Description
Examines the reasons why Indigenous community engagement is important due to climate change and discusses barriers to western-based health impact assessment and Indigenous traditional knowledge integration.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, June 1, 2004, pp. 411-434
Description
Explains the relationship between nutrition and geographic distribution of diseases, increase in obesity rates and diet-related diseases and impact of physical activity on obesity prevention.