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978-1-896445-43-4Size: 6" x 9"
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Sometimes Hunting Can Seem Like Business
Polar Bear Sport Hunting In Nunavut
Occasional Publications Series
By George W. Wenzel
This volume provides insight into whether or how sport hunting might play a strategic role in the conservation and management of polar bear in Canada's North, and examines the economic benefits to Inuit and their communities, both in terms of its monetary and sociocultural importance by examining Inuit participation in the polar bear sporthunt in the communities of Taloyoak, Resolute Bay, and Clyde River. At first glance, sport hunting may appear to have little to offer by way of insight about resource co-management. Yet, there are several important lessons to be learned from the way this aspect of the Inuit-polar bear relationship has evolved. For Inuit, the cultural, economic, and social aspects of polar bear hunting, including that carried out by visitors seeking tangible trophies, are equally intertwined.
Book details
Publication date: January 2008Features: 8 maps (4 using google earth), tables, references, appendices, glossary
Series: Occasional Publications Series
Keywords: Native Studies;Polar Bears;Hunting
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Area Studies, Area Studies / Northern & Polar Studies, Native Studies / Polar Bears / Hunting, Native Studies;Polar Bears;Hunting, Natural Resources
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: January 2008Features: 8 maps (4 using google earth), tables, references, appendices, glossary
Series: Occasional Publications Series
Keywords: Native Studies;Polar Bears;Hunting
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Area Studies, Area Studies / Northern & Polar Studies, Native Studies / Polar Bears / Hunting, Native Studies;Polar Bears;Hunting, Natural Resources
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
George W. Wenzel.
George W. Wenzel.