Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut Vol 5: Environment Part 1: Renewable Resources and Wildlife Protection ed. by Minnie Grey, Marianne A. Stenbaek, and: Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut Vol 6: Environment Part 2: Contaminants, Land Use and Climate Change ed. by Minnie Grey, Marianne A. Stenbaek (review)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Minnie Grey and Marianne A. Stenbaek (eds), Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut Vol 5: Environment Part 1: Renewable Resources and Wildlife Protection (Montreal and Kingston: IPI Press/McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), 256 pp. Cased. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-9829155-4-7.Minnie Grey and Marianne A. Stenbaek (eds), Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut Vol 6: Environment Part 2: Contaminants, Land Use and Climate Change (Montreal and Kingston: IPI Press/McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), 192 pp. Cased. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-9829155-5-4.It remains true that Yukon, North-west Territories and Nunavut continue to receive the bulk of writings about the Canadian Arctic; Nunavik (Quebec north of the 55° parallel) is a Cinderella in comparison. These are the latest two volumes in a series which restores the balance a little, and has previously covered: (1) Stories & Tales, (2) Way of Life, (3) Health, and (4) Children & Youth. They contain just over 100 short articles, averaging three to four pages each, which have been selected from 'pieces' published by the Makivik Corporation between 1975 and 2010 in its newsletters and magazines - Taqlarit, Atvaqnik and principally the Makivak Magazine. The Makivik Corporation was established under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement ( JBNQA) of 1975. It is responsible for the administration of Inuit lands in Nunavik, and also for the use of compensation payments under JBNQA. 'Nunavimmiut' is Inuktitut for an inhabitant of Nunavik, and the content of both volumes focuses on how the Inuit still depend upon the environment. Readers unfamiliar with the geography of Nunavik are spared the chore of continually consulting an atlas with English and Inuktitut spelling of place-names, as both volumes contain an excellent map combining both scripts, and there is the bonus of a coloured map in English on the beautifully-designed dust covers. Each volume has a perceptive and scene-setting introduction; Volume 5 by Johnny Peters, Makivik Vice President of Renewable Resources, and Volume 6 by Sheila Watt-Cloutier of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC).Volume 5 contains two sections - 'Renewable Resources' and 'Protection of Wildlife' - which, almost inevitably, overlap at the margins in material covered. 'Renewable Resources' introduces an extremely wide range dealing with marine mammals and fish, but most material covers the James Bay agreement and general issues of renewable resource planning. The 'Protection of Wildlife' section concentrates more on particular species - beluga whales, bowhead whales, walrus, Arctic char, Canada geese, and musk oxen. An important theme for fish resources is enhancement of habitat, e.g. by engineering works on rivers, and release of eggs and fry. Discussions on whales, polar bear and musk-ox highlight the differences in view between Inuit harvests, and attempts by government and wildlife NGOs to impose quotas or ban the har vest altogether. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.007 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".