GEOG 2OC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Davis Inlet, Innu
13 Sep 2020
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Global warming is a significant challenge to the development and livelihood on the far. North - impacts on native cultures include (but are not limited to) 1. Reduction in hunting grounds as summer and winter ice cover diminishes: reduction in crucial food sources, as polar bear, whale, caribou, and seal populations are affected by changing climate 3. Threats to traditional way of life, with loss of traditional food, hunting grounds and environment - it is predicted that the arctic will be ice free during the summers of 2015-2030. There are two modes of production in the far north: 1. In 2008, a vote banning alcohol from the settlement passed with a vote of 76-74. Western scientific approaches to utilizing the environment and solving its problems - Cosmology: factual observations, management systems, culture and identity, ethics and values, past and current uses lomoar cpsd| 2151316. An example of intensive resource development in the far north is diamond mining -
