Environmental Change Research Group Updates
David Fawcett (research associate, INTS) and Angus Naylor (PhD candidate, University of Leeds) attended the Adaptation 2020 conference in Vancouver along with three Inuit partners on two community-led projects that Dr. Tristan Pearce, David and Angus worked on with the community of Ulukhaktok, NT. Angus and Adam Kuptana presented research findings for Tooniktoyok, a project that involves 10 Inuit hunters tracking their activities using participatory mapping to understand the economic costs of subsistence activities. David, April Olifie and Gilbert Olifie presented on Nunamin Illihakvia: Learning from the Land, a community-led cultural program that aims to bring together hunters and sewers of different generations in Ulukhaktok to encourage knowledge transmission and Inuinnaqtun language development.
Dr. Tristan Pearce is the lead author of a paper published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The paper reports on research completed by Dr. Pearce and colleagues in Nawaikruku Village, Ra Province, Viti Levu, Fiji about how community members experience and respond to natural disasters like cyclones and how to increase resilience to future disasters.
Dr. Tristan Pearce is the co-author of a new paper in One Earth that develops a novel approach for assessing the vulnerability of complex adaptive systems to climate change. The paper was led by Angus Naylor, a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds who has done work in Ulukhaktok, NT with Dr. Pearce and David Fawcett (a research associate in INTS). Dr. Pearce is on Angus’ PhD advisory committee.
