Download or read book The 2016 Beluga Summit written by L. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first Beluga Summit was held in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, on February 23-25, 2016. This significant engagement event brought together government scientists, co-management partners, academics, and Inuvialuit community members to share knowledge and discuss future research priorities for the Eastern Beaufort Sea beluga population. The summit was jointly organized by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Fisheries Joint Management Committee and the Inuvialuit Game Council, with full engagement in program planning from Inuvialuit Hunters and Trappers Committees. The summit was structured around three major themes: (1) community knowledge, (2) scientific research, and (3) beluga management. Multiple formats were used to share information during the event, including oral presentations, breakout groups, poster sessions, a cultural evening, and roundtable discussions. Knowledge was shared and connections were strengthened between the diverse groups working on beluga research, monitoring and management, and new research priorities and collaborations emerged. The value of the summit was recognized by participants and there was interest from co-management groups as well as other attendees in holding similar events on a five year cycle. The success of the summit was largely due to the collaborative approach adopted amongst co-management partners to design an event that incorporated a variety of perspectives, and to the active participation and high level of engagement from all attendees"--Abstract, page ix.
Download or read book Beluga Summit written by Shannon MacPhee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over 30 years these studies have successfully blended traditional knowledge and western science and increased our understanding of the numbers, life history and health of beuga whales in the Beaufort Sea. The program has yielded an Inuvialuit Beluga Management Plan, hundreds of scientific papers, worldwide respect, and successfully achieved the intent of the third key principle of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement "To protect and preserve Arctic wildlife, environment, and biological productivity". ... I am confident that this spirit of cooperation will continue through our Beluga summit and create guidance for the coming years as we strive to improve our knowledge and understanding of beluga in the ISR. ... Introductory remarks: The Beluga Summit is bringing together researchers, harvesters, Elders, youth and resource managers for the sharing of knowledge about beluga whales. During this three-day gathering, researchers and community members will have the chance to present their knowledge about belugas. Together, we will identify common concerns and knowledge gaps in beluga research and monitoring to help direct future beluga whale research in the ISR. The Steering Committee developed the format and content of the Beluga Summit in collaboration with community delegates, HTCS and researchers to ensure that the meeting would meet the following goals: -Share knowledge on beluga whales; -Summarize our current state of knowledge; -Develop a plan for research and management of beluga whales for the next 5 to 10 years; -Support the preparation of a publication that will assist management of beluga in the ISR. Community representatives will be full participants at the meeting and are there to learn from others as well as share their knowledge and perspectives. The three broad areas of sharing from a community perspective include cultural practices (e.g. sharing, hunting/food preparations), knowledge about beluga whales and the ecosystem (e.g. noting changes in belugas and the ecosystem) and perspectives on future research and monitoring (e.g. what is needed or what should be adjusted to increase our knowledge on beluga whales). Scientists and research advisors from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Health Canada, Northern Contaminants Program, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canadian universities and research institutes are travelling to Inuvik to share knowledge with community members and resource managers. Researchers studying beluga ecology and physiology, human health, contaminants, disease and Traditional Ecological Knowledge will present their research, learn about Inuvialuit knowledge and perspectives, and contribute to discussions about future research and monitoring. Managers and staff from the co-management boards, DFO, Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee will contribute a regional, national and international perspective to beluga management concerns. They will also have the opportunity to hear directly from community delegates and scientists studying and living in the ISR. The Summit provides an important opportunity for beluga knowledge-holders to come together, bring their knowledge together to bring us to our current understanding of belugas in the context of environmental change. We hope this event fosters communication and collaboration among the many knowledge holders engaged in beluga whale harvesting, monitoring and research on beluga whales. We are excited for your participation in the development of a future plan for beluga in the ISR!"--ASTIS database.
Download or read book Tusaayaksat Spring 2016 written by Tusaayaksat Magazine and published by Tusaayaksat Magazine. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Perspectives on Climate Change
Download or read book Research with Arctic Inuit Communities written by Tristan Pearce and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal experiences building relationships with Inuit, working together to design and conduct research, and how this shaped their research approach and outcomes, are rarely captured. As such, there are limited resources available to new researchers that share information about the practical aspects of community-based research in the Arctic. The book is intended to provide a glimpse into what it is like to do research together with Inuit, and in doing so, contribute to the development of more productive and equitable relationships between Inuit and researchers. The chapters are written as structured narratives in the first-person and include reflections, and lessons learned.
Download or read book Proceedings of the RAP Meeting on Eastern Beaufort Sea Beluga written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings report on a meeting that evaluated the status of beluga in the eastern Beaufort Sea, with particular attention to the issue of stock abundance. Other topics discussed include species biology, the beluga hunt, uncertainty in stock estimates & sources of uncertainty, and effects of contaminants & disease on the beluga population.
Download or read book Workshop on Beaufort Sea Beluga written by Douglas Wartzok and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Superpower Summits written by Svetlana Savranskaya and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.
Download or read book Lentil Underground written by Liz Carlisle and published by Avery. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a new foreword by Frederick L. Kirschenmann..."
Download or read book Reconfiguring the Global Governance of Climate Change written by John J. Kirton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the course and causes of UN, G7 and G20 governance of climate change through the crucial period of 2015–2021. It provides a careful, comprehensive and reliable description of the individual and interactive contributions of the G7, G20 and UN summits and analyses their results. The authors explain these contributions and results by considering the impacts of causal candidates, such as a changing physical ecosystem and international political system and the actions of individual leaders of the world’s most systemically significant countries. They apply and improve an established, compact causal model, grounded in international relations theory, to guide these tasks. By developing, prescribing and implementing immediate, realistic actionable policy solutions to cope with the urgent, existential challenge of controlling climate change, this volume will appeal to scholars of international relations, global governance and global environmental governance.
Download or read book Child Honouring written by Raffi Cavoukian and published by Homeland Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Child Honouring is captured in this anthology of essays by leading child advocacy proponents. The introduction by Raffi and foreword by the Dalai Llama focus on the importance of looking at the world and the future through the lens of "what's best for kids is what's best for us all." Contributors from across many disciplines include renowned child development author Penelope Leach, Nobel Prize nominee Lloyd Axworthy, celebrated cultural historian Riane Eisler, bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver, and ecological economist Ron Colman.
Download or read book Lower Cook Inlet Draft Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Ice written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the pressures of development, technological advances, globalization and climate change to social and cultural life, this book attempts to define the nature of competing demands and assess their impact on the environment. These essays provide a detailed examination of ocean and coastal management in the Canadian north, exploring a wide range of issues critical to environmental stewardship, and breaking the ice to connect academics, government managers, policy-makers, aboriginal groups and industry." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Investment Treaty Law and Climate Change written by Tomás Restrepo Rodríguez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the question whether the investment treaty law system could be harmonized with the climate change international legal framework and the climate interest that lies beyond. The answer to this research question is divided into three parts. The first examines the relevance of the climate change international legal framework in investment treaty disputes as a natural pre(logical)interpretative stage. The second focuses on the BIT’s content-interpretation, which is the orthodox approach to solve the fragmentation between the system of investment treaty law and the system of international climate change law. Finally, the third part tackles this fragmentation through a heterodox approach that is grounded in the direct application of climate change principles through law ascertainment. Apart from concluding that harmonization between investment treaty law and international climate change law is possible through the orthodox approach to the expropriation and the FET standards, as well as through the direct application of the climate change precautionary principle and the CBDRRC principle − heterodox approach, the book suggests that tribunals are expected soon to openly address climate change disputes in their rulings.
Download or read book Never Broken written by Jewel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jewel is a truth-teller…this is a book that lingers in your heart.” – Brené Brown *The New York Times bestseller* New York Times bestselling poet and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood. When Jewel’s first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with more than thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life, and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age five, and joined her parents’ entertainment act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed family life with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, however, there was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen, she moved out and tasked herself with a mission: to see if she could avoid being the kind of statistic that her past indicated for her future. Soon after, she was accepted to the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and there she began writing her own songs as a means of expressing herself and documenting her journey to find happiness. Jewel was eighteen and homeless in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs and it was requested into the top-ten countdown, something unheard-of for an unsigned artist. By the time she was twenty-one, her debut had gone multiplatinum. There is much more to Jewel’s story, though, one complicated by family legacies, by crippling fear and insecurity, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she managed to flourish and find happiness despite these obstacles. Along her road of self-discovery, learning to redirect her fate, Jewel has become an iconic singer and songwriter. In Never Broken she reflects on how she survived, and how writing songs, poetry, and prose has saved her life many times over. She writes lyrically about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and loss, about the healing power of motherhood, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs.
Download or read book The Packraft Handbook written by Luc Mehl and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A staple for paddlers.... [The Packraft Handbook has] now become the bible for outdoor recreators taking their inflatable rafts into the backcountry." ― Anchorage Daily News 2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Guidebook Winner Alaska-based author is a leading expert on wilderness travel Emphasis on skill progression and safety applies to wide range of outdoor water recreation Vibrant illustrations and photos inform and inspire The Packraft Handbook is a comprehensive guide to packrafting, with a strong emphasis on skill progression and safety. Readers will learn to maneuver through river features and open water, mitigate risk with trip planning and boat control, and how to react when things go wrong. Beginners will find everything they need to know to get started--from packraft care to proper paddling position as well as what to wear and how to communicate. Illustrated for visual learners and featuring stunning photography, The Packraft Handbook has something to offer all packrafters and other whitewater sports enthusiasts.
Download or read book World heritage in the high seas written by Freestone, David and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook written by Deb Perelman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!
