From River Trails to Adaptive Co-Management: Learning and Relating with Inuit Inhabitants of the Thelon River, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article draws upon community-based case study research to illuminate Inuit uses of and relationships with the Thelon River in Arctic Canada. Local and traditional knowledge related to this special and changing river-place was documented in partnership with residents of Baker Lake, Nunavut, an inland Inuit settlement located at the terminus of the Thelon River west of Hudson Bay. Contrasting representations of a bounded river “corridor” or “watershed”, Inuit experience and encounter the Thelon River as part of a complex network of socially, ecologically, and culturally constructed trails. Meaning, subsistence, and cultural livelihoods are situated not just at nodes of intense activity (e.g., caribou crossings), but also along human and non-human paths travelled, perceived, and inscribed into memory (e.g., using inuksuit to navigate or hunt). The temporal and spatial dimensions of Inuit relationships with the Thelon River are thus characterized by degrees of oscillation, vitality, and ambiguity. This understanding has implications for river system governance in Nunavut and other Arctic regions in Canada. Specifically, we argue for collaborative and equitable visions of northern futures premised upon the promises of adaptive co-management, an approach to governance that begins with, and fosters, hybridity of perspective, knowledge, and action with respect to the meanings of complex resources such as the Thelon.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".