Circumpolar Health Atlas

Now available from UTP Press or amazon.com.

Thematic Map Visualizers

A series of StatsPlanet-enabled thematic map visualizers and Amcharts-enabled graphs were created using data aggregated from the Indian 2011 Census, as well as maps from the Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Agency and Election Commission of India. The interactive graphics can be browsed at uttarakhand.org.

Social Economy Summit Banner

Banner for the 2011 Northern Summit on the Social Economy in Yellowknife.

Development chokepoint in Richmond Hill

Chokepoint in Richmond Hill where the Oak Ridge Moraine is almost bisected by housing development.

2011 NWT Elections Charts

A series of charts designed to graphically visualize abstention rates and ratios across the Northwest Territories.

Dechinta Website

Dechinta: Bush University Centre for Research and Learning is a northern-led initiative delivering land-based, university credited educational experiences led by northern leaders, experts, elders and professors to engage northern and southern youth in a transformative curricula based on the cutting-edge needs of Canada’s North.

Link: dechinta.ca

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Beaufort Delta Region

Map extruding the Beaufort Delta Region from the rest of Canada that includes both Gwich’in and Inuvialuit settlements.

Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health

The Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health (CSCH) is a charitable organization dedicated to promoting research, exchanging knowledge and fostering greater awareness and responsiveness to the health issues of circumpolar people.

Link: csch.ca

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CircHOB

The Circumpolar Health Observatory (CircHOB) is an international collaborative health information system, involved in systematic, standardized, and consistent data collection and analysis. In addition to aggregating online and print resources, CircHOB is population-based, and produces data for all northern regions in all circumpolar countries.

CircHOB’s services include a data visualizer and database of reference materials that have been collected electronically and physically at the ICHR Office in Yellowknife, NT.

Link: circhob.circumpolarhealth.org

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Uttarakhand Map Series

This is one of a series of maps first produced in 2004 and revised in 2010 that highlight various facets of the state of Uttarakhand in India.

Uttarakhand Solidarity Network

The Uttarakhand Solidarity Network Web Portal is an environmental, political, and social information clearinghouse for the Uttarakhand region of India. Originally conceived in 1997, the page ranks as one of the oldest referenced here, and has gone through four major revisions.

Link: uttarakhand.org

Mountain Shepherds

The Mountain Shepherds Initiative represents a grassroots effort to evolve a new model of tourism in the High Himalayas. Beginning with the Nanda Devi Campaign for cultural survival and sustainable livelihoods in 2003, communities with the assistance of seasoned activists have prepared and actively promoted their own community-owned ecotourism plan and outreach campaign to develop interest in both the biosphere reserve and their unique trans-Himalayan culture. Mountain Shepherds is an attempt to bring these plans to fruition by throwing open the doors of Nanda Devi to the world.

Link: mountainshepherds.com

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SERNNoCa NWT

A SSHRC-funded initiative from 2006-2011, the Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada (SERNNoCa) was a network of university and college-based researchers and community-based organizations conducting research relevant to the social economy in Canada’s North. This website highlights the nodal activities of the Northwest Territories branch of SERNNoCA.

Link: sernnoca.circumpolarhealth.org

NGPRC Sponsors’ Poster

Poster thanking the sponsors of the Northern Governance Policy Research Conference.

Oral Health and the Aboriginal Child

This site provides a home for resources, teaching tools, program information, and research articles on oral health and the Aboriginal child organized in a custom database built specifically for this unique “one-stop shop” compilation. This venture came about as a result of a forum that took place in Winnipeg, Canada in June 2007 called “Oral Health and the Aboriginal Child” and a partnership with the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research in Yellowknife which has developed and maintained this site.

Link: oralhealth.circumpolarhealth.org

Circumpolar Health Portal

A portal site that provides time and location services to the circumpolar health community, while highlighting websites produced at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research.

Link: circumpolarhealth.org

ICCH14 Sponsors’ Banner

Thank you banner for sponsors of the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health.

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Northern Canada

First produced in 2004, the map was updated in 2009 to include accurate indigenous place names for all the North of 60º communities.

ICHR

The Institute for Circumpolar Health Research [ICHR] is an independent research organization located in the Canadian North devoted to health research relevant to the circumpolar regions and their people.

Link: ichr.ca

NWTPAS

The NWT Protected Areas Strategy (PAS) is a fourteen-party network that guides community-based processes to establishing a network of protected areas across the NWT. It recognizes the need to balance conservation and economic development, while respecting Aboriginal rights, third party interests, and land use planning processes.

Link: www.nwtpas.ca

Toronto’s Big Pipe

Appearing in: M. Macaraig and A. Sandberg. (2009). The Politics of Sewerage: Contested Narratives on Growth, Science, and Nature. Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 448-63.

Arctic Orthography Tools

Various linguistic resources have been created to assist in the correct orthography in print and electronic communications of Aboriginal languages of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

• Dene Unicode Characters Chart
• Inuktitut Syllabics Chart
• Mac Dene Keyboard Layout (with installation instructions)

Also please visit: Language Tools @ ICHR

Uttarakhand Cinema

This website was built to showcase the history of Uttarakhand Cinema. Drawing from Garhwali filmmaker Parashar Gaur’s copious archives and various other sources, the site also hopes to serve as a repository for artifacts relating to the pioneering spirits behind Uttarakhand’s modern cultural renaissance through theatre and film.

Link: cinema.prayaga.org

Oak Ridge Moraine, GTA, Monroe County

Appearing in: G. Wekerle and T. V. Abbruzzese. (2010). Producing regionalism: regional movements, ecosystems and equity in a fast and slow growth region. GeoJournal, Vol. 75, No. 7, pp. 581-594.

Temagami

Appearing in: Thorpe, J. (2011). Temagami’s Tangled Wild: Race, Gender and the Making of Canadian Nature. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Historical-Cultural Map of Uttarakhand

This is the cover of the first ever Historical-Cultural Map of Uttarakhand that was distributed in India in December 2007, and made available online shortly afterwards.

Beej Bachao Andolan

English-language website of the Beej Bachao Andolan, a two decades-old movement that strives to conserve local seed diversity and forests, while defending small farmers and promoting traditional agriculture and knowledge systems.

Link: beejbachaoandolan.org

IPY GAPS Initiative

A fully endorsed International Polar Year (IPY) project operated out of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability at York University, GAPS was a multi-national, multi-disciplinary initiative that aims to examine the scope and range of human security in the Arctic. GAPS specifically focused on the impacts of oil and gas activity on climate change and on Arctic peoples, in order to identify and document threats and coping strategies from multiple security perspectives (in both Arctic communities and among Arctic researchers). GAPS aimed to deliver this knowledge in cooperation with Arctic communities, to other Arctic communities, and to the human security policy and academic communities.

Link: ipygaps.org

Uttarakhand Board Game

Website of the Uttarakhand Board Game, a strategy war game set in the medieval period of the Uttarakhand region of India. Produced as an educational tool ahead of the 2007 State Elections.

Link: boardgame.prayaga.org

Moraines of Southern Ontario

Appearing in modified form: Chambers, C. and A. Sandberg. (2007). Pits, Peripheralization and the Politics of Scale: Struggles over Locating Extractive Industries in the Town of Caledon, Ontario, Canada. Regional Studies, vol. 41, No. 3 (May), pp. 327-38.

Trans Himalayas

Produced in 2004 for an overview paper on the Trans Himalayas as a field of study.

Wood Buffalo National Park

Appearing in: Sandlos, J. (2007). Hunters at the Margin:Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

HIV Virion