Evaluating biotic diversity in environmentally significant areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G.R. Smith ◽  
John B. Theberge
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Biotic Diversity ◽  
Environmentally Significant Areas

Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Fenge
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Landuse Planning ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Environmentally Significant Areas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Development

A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarbon development and increased harvesting of renewable resources are threats to the integrity of many ESAs.An anticipatory and comprehensive policy to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in advance of industrialization is required, but developing such a policy will be difficult, owing to the complex political and jurisdictional ‘environments’ in northern Canada. Despite these problems, the recently announced Northern Landuse Planning Policy could be a vehicle for the implementation of a comprehensive conservation policy for ESAs, if only the institutional structures and processes that will accompany this policy are adequately designed.

Institutional Arrangements for a System of Environmentally Significant Areas: The Case of the East Beaufort Sea Area, Canada

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gordon Nelson ◽  
Paul G.R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms ◽  
Wide Applicability ◽  
Test Application ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Environmentally Significant Areas

A method is described of matching environmentally significant areas (ESAs) with the most appropriate form of management for each, selected from all the available forms. This involves comparing the purpose, reasons for significance, existing uses, and tenure, of each ESA, with the characteristics of agencies, protected area categories, legislation, and non-statutory arrangements for management, as well as examining agency coordination mechanisms or other means of implementation. The method was formulated for ESAs in the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada, but is considered to have wide applicability. It is illustrated with a test application to seven proposed ESAs in what is termed the eastern Beaufort Sea region.

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Blue Jay ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskatchewan Natural History Society
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories

Continuing the Development of Municipal Effluent Guidelines for the Northwest Territories

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
R. J. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Removal Efficiency ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Coliform Bacteria ◽  
Flow Ratio ◽  
Dilution Ratio ◽  
Effluent Quality ◽  
Municipal Effluent

The background to and the rationale for the Guidelines for Municipal Type Wastewater Discharges in the Northwest Territories is discussed. Particu1ar attention is given to the development of Table 2.1, Effluent Quality of Municipal Wastewater Discharges, which was based upon expected lagoon performance. Also included is a discussion of the flow ratio and dilution ratio concepts. The viability of these concepts was assessed against the available data. It appears that the guidelines misjudged both the number of coliform bacteria in northern raw sewage and the removal efficiency for these organisms in lagoons. It appears unlikely that lagoons can consistently meet the guideline requirements. More information and research is necessary before a complete assessment can be performed.

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