Researchers´ Profiles - Nancy Colleen Weeks Doubleday

Nancy Colleen Weeks Doubleday, PhD, is HOPE Chair in Peace and Health at McMaster University, Centre for Peace Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy.

She holds B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Brock and Queen’s Universities respectively, and as well as degrees in Law (Osgoode Hall Law School) and in Environmental Studies (with Specialization International Law and Aboriginal Rights) from York University, as well as a degree in education from Toronto.

Appointments:

1985-1987 Legal Counsel and Environmental Coordinator, Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
1987-1990 International Environmental Coordinator, Inuit Circumpolar Conference
1990-1994 Consultant re AMAP, Northern Contaminants and renewable resources
1994-2009 Faculty Member, Geography & Environmental Studies, Carleton University
2009 Cross-appointment, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University
2009-2012 Adjunct Professor Geography & Environmental Studies, Carleton University

Service:

Chair, Cold Region Environments Commission, International Geographical Union

• Nancy Doubleday, Co-Contributor, Chapter 5: “Peoples of the Arctic: Characteristics of Human Populations Relevant to Pollution Issues.” AMAP Assessment Report: Arctic Pollution Issues. (H. Huntington, ed.) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. AMAP, 1998. 141-182.
  
  
• Nancy C. Doubleday, “The nexus of identity, Inuit autonomy and arctic sustainability: learning from Nunavut, community and culture.” British Journal of Canadian Studies, Special Issue on Environment, Community, Resources, 2003: 16(2): 297-308.
  
  
• Nancy Doubleday, Fiona Mackenzie, Simon Dalby, "Reimagining sustainable cultures: constitutions, property and art." Canadian Geographer. 2004: 48(4): 389-404.
  
  
• Nancy C. Doubleday* & John P. Smol, “Atlas and classification scheme of arctic combustion particles suitable for paleoenvironmental work.” Journal of Paleolimnology, 2005: 33: 393-431.
  
  
• Quinn, P. K., Bates, T. S., Baum, E., Doubleday, N., Fiore, A. M., Flanner, M., Fridlind, A., Garrett, T. J., Koch, D., Menon, S., Shindell, D., Stohl, A., and Warren, S. G.: Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Discussion Paper, 7, 15669-15692, 2007. (Refereed Discussion Paper).
  
  
• Nancy C. Doubleday “Sustaining Arctic Visions: Writing Inuit Identity, Reading Inuit Art in Cape Dorset, Nunavut” in Graham Humphrys and Michael Williams (eds.) Presenting and Representing Environments. Springer: Dordtrecht, 2005: 167-180.
  
  
• Nancy C. Doubleday, “Culturing Education for Sustainability: Experience in Arctic Canada” in John Chi-kin Lee and Michael Williams (eds.) Environmental And Geographical Education For Sustainability. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.: Hauppauge, New York. 2006: 269-282.
  
  
• Nancy C. Doubleday, “Culturing Adaptive Co-Management: Finding ‘Keys’ To Resilience When Power Is Asymmetrical” in D. Armitage, F. Berkes, N. Doubleday (eds.). “Adaptive Co-management: Collaboration, Learning and Multi-Level Governance.” UBC Press: Vancouver. 2007: 228-249.
  
  
• D. Armitage, F. Berkes, N. Doubleday (eds.). “Adaptive Co-management: Collaboration, Learning and Multi-Level Governance.” UBC Press: Vancouver. 2007.
  
  
• Quinn, P. K., Bates, T. S., Baum, E., Doubleday, N., Fiore, A. M., Flanner, M., Fridlind, A., Garrett, T. J., Koch, D., Menon, S., Shindell, D., Stohl, A., and Warren, S. G.: Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 8, 1723-1735, 2008 www.atmos-chem-phys.net/8/1723/2008/ 25 March 2008. Refereed Final paper.
  
  
• Derek R Armitage, Ryan Plummer, Fikret Berkes, Robert I Arthur, Anthony T Charles, Iain J Davidson-Hunt, Alan P Diduck, Nancy C Doubleday, Derek S Johnson, Melissa Marschke, Patrick McConney, Evelyn W Pinkerton, and Eva K Wollenberg. Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity. Frontiers of Ecology and Environment. 2008; 6, doi:10.1890/070089 (on-line publication release).
  
  
• Nancy Doubleday. Adaptive Co-management and the Learning that Leads to Social Innovation. Open Source Business Review. Social Innovation Issue. September 2008: 28-33. http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/67
  

Email: doublen@mcmaster.ca