Martha Dowsley
Lakehead University
21 Papers
199 Citations
Martha Dowsley is an academic researcher from Lakehead University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Martha Dowsley include McGill University.
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Papers
Community clusters in wildlife and environmental management: using TEK and community involvement to improve co-management in an era of rapid environmental change.
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of polar bear management in Nunavut Territory, Canada, shows that community clusters provide a forum to collect and analyse traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) over a geographic area that mirrors the management unit, providing detailed information of local conditions.
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Adaptive governance and the human dimensions of marine mammal management: Implications for policy in a changing North
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how human relationships and modes of governance affect conservation success in the Northern Marine Mammal Management and argue that effective adaptive policy requires new ways of learning about and governing human interactions with marine mammals.
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Should we turn the tent? Inuit women and climate change
Martha Dowsley,Shari Gearheard,Noor Johnson,Jocelyn Inksetter +3 more
- 25 Jan 2011
TL;DR: This paper explored women's perspectives on recent environmental changes and highlighted how women can contribute to adaptation, not only to physical changes but also to the resulting social changes, through their often dominant economic and political roles in their communities, the territory and various wider global governance fora.
Inuit-organised polar bear sport hunting in Nunavut territory, Canada
TL;DR: Polar bear sport hunting is an economically important form of Aboriginal ecotourism in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut as mentioned in this paper, and each sport hunt provides approximately 20 times the monetary value of a polar bear taken in a subsistence hunt.
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Hunting with Polar Bears: Problems with the Passive Properties of the Commons
Jeremy J. Schmidt,Martha Dowsley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that common-pool resource theories which assume natural resources are inherently passive cannot adequately account for the system of active relationships operating among Inuit in Arctic Canada, and they use a flexible quota approach, which, while following conservation guidelines, allows some space for the traditional Inuit-polar bear system to operate.
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