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The recent designations of Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga/Torngat Mountains National Park (TMNP) and Kuururjuaq Parc National (KPN) have established Canada’s newest polar transboundary protected area (TPA) along the Labrador Peninsula of Northern Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. The designations have helped to address concerns raised regarding the isolated nature and fragmented biological distribution, and the susceptibility to anthropogenic disturbances of the area. The adaptive management approach used in this TPA fosters regionally-based approaches to protected area management, and promotes regional collaborative developments. These regional initiatives are facilitated through an all Inuit Co-operative Management Board for the TMNP and a harmonization committee overseeing the management of the KPN. Although the mandate of each park committee is to provide advice and guidance for the management of their respective parks, each has also become an important forum for facilitating more regionally-based management approaches through protected areas. This chapter examines how collaborative management strategies have been implemented at this regional level through the help of the Indigenous Stewardship Model applies to the TK-TBA. Special emphasis is placed upon discussing issues related to effective Indigenous involvement in governance and ensuring local economic benefits to Indigenous groups.
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The adoption of the Parks Act of Québec (chapter P-9) in 1977 and the significant changes which were made in 2001, including those that eliminate the classifications of “recreation” have allowed include provincial parks in Quebec within the larger international family of national parks under the criteria established the International Union for Conservation of Nature (Lemelin 2012).
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Many of the studies cited in this chapter were supported by the government of Nunatsiavut, Parks Canada, Makivik and the Social Sciences Humanities and Research Council of Canada.
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Lemelin, H. et al. (2016). Two Parks, One Vision – Collaborative Management Approaches to Transboundary Protected Areas in Northern Canada: Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga/Torngat Mountains National Park, Nunatsiavut and le Parc national Kuururjuaq Nunavik. In: Herrmann, T., Martin, T. (eds) Indigenous Peoples’ Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Arctic. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25035-9_4
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