Martha Dowsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 183121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Dowsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowsley |
| SIGNATURE | DOWSLEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Range Dynamics of Barren-Ground Caribou Implied by Historical Population Cycles and Logistic Growth
We examined logistic range dynamics of three cyclic subpopulations of migratory barren-ground caribou in northern Canada (Qamanirjuaq, Bathurst, and George River). We used time series census data from each subpopulation cycle to project numbers (Nt), calculate subpopulation annual finite rates of population increase (λt), and estimate the corresponding time series of range condition or carrying capacity (Kt) using an algebraically rearranged vers…
Do North American Migratory Barren-Ground Caribou Subpopulations Cycle
Unlike all other members of the deer family, subpopulations of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) are typically sine-cyclic. We used Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) to rank competing population dynamics models for 11 North American barren-ground caribou subpopulations. Nine of these subpopulations were best described as sine-cyclic with periods ranging from a minimum of 26 years (Bluenose-East and Porcupine) to a maximum …
Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear
Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016), 304pp., 170 illus., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-295-99922-7
An initial exploration of whether ‘female flight’ is a demographic problem in Eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit communities
Emigration of indigenous women from small, isolated communities in Alaska and Greenland is seen as a pattern of female flight that results from modernization. As women see more options for a satisfying life, many are leaving remote northern communities. Female flight can result in social, cultural and economic problems for small communities and decrease the sustainability of such locales. We conducted an initial review of census data and found li…
Identity and the evolving relationship between Inuit women and the land in the eastern Canadian Arctic
Academic discussions around Inuit identity once focused on acculturation. These have mainly been replaced by concepts of adaptation to new living conditions. Yet, Inuit in the eastern Canadian Arctic still frame identity concerns around their land activities and are wary of becoming too much like ‘Qallunaat’ or southerners. This paper examines what material and non-material goods (for example psychological goods) Inuit seek from the land today in…
Developing Community Capacities through Scenario Planning for Natural Resource Management
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were listed as a threatened species in Ontario in 2009 as a precautionary measure based on the expectation that their sea ice habitat will decline. The authors studied the Swampy Cree community at Fort Severn, which traditionally harvests this species, to assess community adaptive and governance capacities and designed and discussed four future scenarios regarding potential uses and management strategies for polar be…
Developing a polar bear co-management strategy in Ontario through the indigenous stewardship model
On 27 January 2011, the Fort Severn Cree nation presented its perspectives on the management of wabusk (Cree term for polar bear meaning the great wandering one) or polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) to the international community. The following article provides an overview of the events that have transpired since the Conférence internationale mondes polaires held in Paris, France, on 26–28 January 2011. It begins by discussing the current state of t…
A dialogue and reflection on photohistory
Attempts at capturing observations and concerns of change in the Canadian north (sub-Arctic, Arctic) have been mostly conducted through interviews and focus groups spearheaded by researchers. Indeed, images depicting change in the north, when utilized at all, are mostly used to confirm and illustrate the findings derived from researchers. Rarely are local depictions of change used in these interpretations. The purpose of this Notes from the field…
Should we turn the tent? Inuit women and climate change
Most of the climate change literature for Arctic Canada in the social sciences has focused on men's knowledge and experiences. Drawing on research from Qikiqtarjuaq and Clyde River, Nunavut, we explore Inuit women's perspectives on recent environmental changes, many of which are often attributed to climate change by Inuit or others. We divide issues resulting from environmental change into primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are change…
It's Not Just About Bears
Throughout the Arctic, the conservation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus), based on the goals and principles of the 1973 International Agreement
The Value of a Polar Bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a common pool resource that contributes to both the subsistence and monetary aspects of the Nunavut mixed economy through its use as food, the sale of hides in the fur trade, and sport hunt outfitting. Sport hunting is more financially profitable than subsistence hunting; however, the proportion of the polar bear quota devoted to the sport hunt has become relatively stable at approximately 20% across Nunavut. T…
Wabusk of the Omushkegouk
Hunting with Polar Bears
Inuit in Canada’s Arctic conceptualize both human hunters and their polar bear prey as active participants in the hunt and as part of a larger socio-economic system requiring the involvement of both humans and animals. Although often treated through the lens of common-pool resource theory, the Inuit viewpoint conflicts with Western wildlife management systems that typically treat animals, and nature in general, as passive. When polar bears are un…
"The Time of the Most Polar Bears"
Since the 1990s, Inuit traditional knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit) has taken on a substantial role in polar bear management in the Canadian territory of Nunavut through its direct use in quota-setting procedures. A co-management conflict has arisen from an increase of hunting quotas in January 2005 for Inuit living in the Baffin Bay and Western Hudson Bay polar bear population areas. The quotas were based on Inuit observations and their concl…
Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors
The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…
Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors
The academic literature contains numerous examples of the failures of both top-down and bottom-up common pool resource management frameworks. Many authors agree that management regimes instead need to utilize a multi-level governance approach to meet diverse objectives in management. However, many currently operating systems do not have that history. This paper explores the conversion of ancestral top-down regimes to complex systems involving mul…
Should we turn the tent? Inuit women and climate change
Most of the climate change literature for Arctic Canada in the social sciences has focused on men's knowledge and experiences. Drawing on research from Qikiqtarjuaq and Clyde River, Nunavut, we explore Inuit women's perspectives on recent environmental changes, many of which are often attributed to climate change by Inuit or others. We divide issues resulting from environmental change into primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are change…
Hunting with Polar Bears
Inuit in Canada’s Arctic conceptualize both human hunters and their polar bear prey as active participants in the hunt and as part of a larger socio-economic system requiring the involvement of both humans and animals. Although often treated through the lens of common-pool resource theory, the Inuit viewpoint conflicts with Western wildlife management systems that typically treat animals, and nature in general, as passive. When polar bears are un…
Identity and the evolving relationship between Inuit women and the land in the eastern Canadian Arctic
Academic discussions around Inuit identity once focused on acculturation. These have mainly been replaced by concepts of adaptation to new living conditions. Yet, Inuit in the eastern Canadian Arctic still frame identity concerns around their land activities and are wary of becoming too much like ‘Qallunaat’ or southerners. This paper examines what material and non-material goods (for example psychological goods) Inuit seek from the land today in…
Developing Community Capacities through Scenario Planning for Natural Resource Management
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were listed as a threatened species in Ontario in 2009 as a precautionary measure based on the expectation that their sea ice habitat will decline. The authors studied the Swampy Cree community at Fort Severn, which traditionally harvests this species, to assess community adaptive and governance capacities and designed and discussed four future scenarios regarding potential uses and management strategies for polar be…
Wabusk of the Omushkegouk
A dialogue and reflection on photohistory
Attempts at capturing observations and concerns of change in the Canadian north (sub-Arctic, Arctic) have been mostly conducted through interviews and focus groups spearheaded by researchers. Indeed, images depicting change in the north, when utilized at all, are mostly used to confirm and illustrate the findings derived from researchers. Rarely are local depictions of change used in these interpretations. The purpose of this Notes from the field…
The Value of a Polar Bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a common pool resource that contributes to both the subsistence and monetary aspects of the Nunavut mixed economy through its use as food, the sale of hides in the fur trade, and sport hunt outfitting. Sport hunting is more financially profitable than subsistence hunting; however, the proportion of the polar bear quota devoted to the sport hunt has become relatively stable at approximately 20% across Nunavut. T…
Developing a polar bear co-management strategy in Ontario through the indigenous stewardship model
On 27 January 2011, the Fort Severn Cree nation presented its perspectives on the management of wabusk (Cree term for polar bear meaning the great wandering one) or polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) to the international community. The following article provides an overview of the events that have transpired since the Conférence internationale mondes polaires held in Paris, France, on 26–28 January 2011. It begins by discussing the current state of t…
Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors
The academic literature contains numerous examples of the failures of both top-down and bottom-up common pool resource management frameworks. Many authors agree that management regimes instead need to utilize a multi-level governance approach to meet diverse objectives in management. However, many currently operating systems do not have that history. This paper explores the conversion of ancestral top-down regimes to complex systems involving mul…
Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors
The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for…
Developing Multi-Level Institutions from Top-Down Ancestors
The academic literature contains numerous examples of the failures of both top-down and bottom-up common pool resource management frameworks. Many authors agree that management regimes instead need to utilize a multi-level governance approach to meet diverse objectives in management. However, many currently operating systems do not have that history. This paper explores the conversion of ancestral top-down regimes to complex systems involving mul…
"The Time of the Most Polar Bears"
Since the 1990s, Inuit traditional knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit) has taken on a substantial role in polar bear management in the Canadian territory of Nunavut through its direct use in quota-setting procedures. A co-management conflict has arisen from an increase of hunting quotas in January 2005 for Inuit living in the Baffin Bay and Western Hudson Bay polar bear population areas. The quotas were based on Inuit observations and their concl…
It's Not Just About Bears
Throughout the Arctic, the conservation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus), based on the goals and principles of the 1973 International Agreement
The Value of a Polar Bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a common pool resource that contributes to both the subsistence and monetary aspects of the Nunavut mixed economy through its use as food, the sale of hides in the fur trade, and sport hunt outfitting. Sport hunting is more financially profitable than subsistence hunting; however, the proportion of the polar bear quota devoted to the sport hunt has become relatively stable at approximately 20% across Nunavut. T…
Wabusk of the Omushkegouk
Hunting with Polar Bears
Inuit in Canada’s Arctic conceptualize both human hunters and their polar bear prey as active participants in the hunt and as part of a larger socio-economic system requiring the involvement of both humans and animals. Although often treated through the lens of common-pool resource theory, the Inuit viewpoint conflicts with Western wildlife management systems that typically treat animals, and nature in general, as passive. When polar bears are un…
Should we turn the tent? Inuit women and climate change
Most of the climate change literature for Arctic Canada in the social sciences has focused on men's knowledge and experiences. Drawing on research from Qikiqtarjuaq and Clyde River, Nunavut, we explore Inuit women's perspectives on recent environmental changes, many of which are often attributed to climate change by Inuit or others. We divide issues resulting from environmental change into primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are change…
Developing Community Capacities through Scenario Planning for Natural Resource Management
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were listed as a threatened species in Ontario in 2009 as a precautionary measure based on the expectation that their sea ice habitat will decline. The authors studied the Swampy Cree community at Fort Severn, which traditionally harvests this species, to assess community adaptive and governance capacities and designed and discussed four future scenarios regarding potential uses and management strategies for polar be…
Developing a polar bear co-management strategy in Ontario through the indigenous stewardship model
On 27 January 2011, the Fort Severn Cree nation presented its perspectives on the management of wabusk (Cree term for polar bear meaning the great wandering one) or polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ) to the international community. The following article provides an overview of the events that have transpired since the Conférence internationale mondes polaires held in Paris, France, on 26–28 January 2011. It begins by discussing the current state of t…
A dialogue and reflection on photohistory
Attempts at capturing observations and concerns of change in the Canadian north (sub-Arctic, Arctic) have been mostly conducted through interviews and focus groups spearheaded by researchers. Indeed, images depicting change in the north, when utilized at all, are mostly used to confirm and illustrate the findings derived from researchers. Rarely are local depictions of change used in these interpretations. The purpose of this Notes from the field…
Identity and the evolving relationship between Inuit women and the land in the eastern Canadian Arctic
Academic discussions around Inuit identity once focused on acculturation. These have mainly been replaced by concepts of adaptation to new living conditions. Yet, Inuit in the eastern Canadian Arctic still frame identity concerns around their land activities and are wary of becoming too much like ‘Qallunaat’ or southerners. This paper examines what material and non-material goods (for example psychological goods) Inuit seek from the land today in…
An initial exploration of whether ‘female flight’ is a demographic problem in Eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit communities
Emigration of indigenous women from small, isolated communities in Alaska and Greenland is seen as a pattern of female flight that results from modernization. As women see more options for a satisfying life, many are leaving remote northern communities. Female flight can result in social, cultural and economic problems for small communities and decrease the sustainability of such locales. We conducted an initial review of census data and found li…
Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear
Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016), 304pp., 170 illus., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-295-99922-7
Do North American Migratory Barren-Ground Caribou Subpopulations Cycle
Unlike all other members of the deer family, subpopulations of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) are typically sine-cyclic. We used Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) to rank competing population dynamics models for 11 North American barren-ground caribou subpopulations. Nine of these subpopulations were best described as sine-cyclic with periods ranging from a minimum of 26 years (Bluenose-East and Porcupine) to a maximum …
Range Dynamics of Barren-Ground Caribou Implied by Historical Population Cycles and Logistic Growth
We examined logistic range dynamics of three cyclic subpopulations of migratory barren-ground caribou in northern Canada (Qamanirjuaq, Bathurst, and George River). We used time series census data from each subpopulation cycle to project numbers (Nt), calculate subpopulation annual finite rates of population increase (λt), and estimate the corresponding time series of range condition or carrying capacity (Kt) using an algebraically rearranged vers…
Geography (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Arctic (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Biology (5 works)