Sonia Wesche - Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Dedyukina, Lena & Wolki, Celina & Wolki, Denise & Wesche, Sonia & Kenny, Tiff-Annie & Skinner, Kelly. (2023). Process Evaluation of a Cooking Circle Program in the Arctic: Developing the Mukluk Logic Model and Identifying Key Enablers and Barriers for Program Implementation. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 38. 219-242. 10.3138/cjpe-2023-0031.
Wesche, Sonia & Johnston, Kari & Huey, Christy & Andrachuk, Mark & Arndt, Felix & Jiang, Jiamin. (2023). Storytelling through uncertainty: How a Yukon entrepreneur podcast helped chronicle the COVID-19 experience.
Ramirez Prieto, Maria & Sallans, Alissa & Ostertag, Sonja & Wesche, Sonia & Kenny, Tiff-Annie & Skinner, Kelly. (2023). Food programs in Indigenous communities within northern Canada: A scoping review. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes. 10.1111/cag.12872.
Medeiros, Andrew & Bakaic, Michael & Cincio, Paige & Wesche, Sonia & Crighton, Eric. (2023). Assessment of water resource vulnerability under changing climatic conditions in remote Arctic communities. Climate Services. 30. 100378. 10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100378.
Gyapay, Julia & Ostertag, Sonja & Wesche, Sonia & Laird, Brian & Skinner, Kelly. (2023). Characterizing the development and dissemination of dietary messaging in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. 10. 103-129. 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.569.
Gyapay, Julia & Noksana, Kanelsa & Ostertag, Sonja & Wesche, Sonia & Laird, Brian & Skinner, Kelly. (2022). Informing the Co-Development of Culture-Centered Dietary Messaging in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories. Nutrients. 14. 1915. 10.3390/nu14091915.
Kenny, Tiff-Annie & Wesche, Sonia & MacLean, Jullian. (2021). Reflecting on the role of peer researchers in collaborative Indigenous food security research in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada. 10.4324/9780429316920-14.
*Cincio P, Medeiros AS, Wesche SD, Gajewski K, Quantifying the vulnerability of Arctic water supply lakes through paleolimnological assessment: The case of Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, The Holocene, Volume 3, Issue 7, 1175-1185 (March 2021)
Kenny T-A, Little M, Lemieux T, Griffin PJ, Wesche SD, Ota Y, Batal M, Chan HM, Lemire M, The Retail Food Sector and Indigenous Peoples in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 17, 8818 (November 2020)
Spring A, Skinner K, Wesche SD, Fresque-Baxter J, Brockington M, Bayha G, Dodd W, Dutton J, Fillion M, Kenny T-A, Laird B, Latta A, MacLean J, Menard K, Ostertag S, Ratelle M, Simba M, Zoe JB, Building community-university research partnerships to enhance capacity for climate change and food security action in the NWT, Northern Public Affairs, Volume 6, Issue 3, 63-67 (September 2020)
Wilson A, Levkoe CZ, Andrée P, Skinner K, Spring A, Wesche SD, Galloway T, Strengthening sustainable northern food systems: Federal policy constraints and potential opportunities, Arctic, Volume 73, Issue 3, 292-311 (September 2020)
*Kenny T-A, Hu XF, Jamieson JA, Kuhnlein HV, Wesche SD, Chan HM, Potential impact of restricted caribou (Rangifer tarandus) consumption on anemia prevalence among Inuit adults in northern Canada, BMC Nutrition, Volume 5, Issue 30, 1-11 (May 2019)
*Cruickshank A, Notten G, Wesche SD, Ballegooyen K, Pope G, Co-management of traditional foods: Opportunities and limitations for food security in northern First Nation communities, Arctic (2019)
*Kenny T-K, Fillion M, Simpkin S, Wesche SD, Chan HM, Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and Inuit Nutrition Security in Canada, EcoHealth (August 2018)
*Kenny T-A, Wesche SD, Fillion M, MacLean J, Chan HM, Supporting Inuit food security: A synthesis of initiatives in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories, Canadian Food Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2, 73-110 (Canada, May 2018)
*Kenny T-A, MacLean J, Gale P, Keats S, Chan HM, Wesche SD, Linking health and the environment through education – A Traditional Food Program in Inuvik, Western Canadian Arctic, Hunger & Environmental Nutrition (2018)
*Kenny T-A, Hu XF, Kuhnlein HV, Wesche SD, Chan HM, Dietary sources of energy and nutrients in the contemporary diet of Inuit adults: Results from the Inuit Health Survey, Public Health Nutrition, Volume 21, Issue 7, 1319-1331 (2018)
*Kenny T-A, Fillion M, MacLean J, Wesche SD, Chan HM, Calories are cheap, nutrients are expensive – The challenge of healthy living in Arctic communities, Food Policy (2018)
Medeiros AS, Wood P, Wesche SD, Bakaic M, Peters JF, Water Security for Northern Peoples: review of threats to Arctic freshwater systems in Nunavut, Canada, Regional Environmental Change, Volume 17, 635-647 (2017)
Wesche SD, *O'Hare-Gordon MAF, Robidoux MA, Mason CW, Land-based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up, Canadian Food Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, 23-48 (2016)
Wesche SD, Armitage DR, Using qualitative scenarios to understand regional environmental change in the Canadian North, Regional Environmental Change, Volume 14, Issue 3, 1095-1108 (June 2014)
Douglas V, Chan HM, Wesche S, Dickson C, Kassi N, Netro L, Williams M, Reconciling traditional knowledge, food security, and climate change: Experience from Old Crow, YT, Canada, Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, Volume 8, Issue 1, 21-27 (March 2014)
Wesche S, Métis Women at Risk: Health and Service Provision in Urban British Columbia, Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health, Volume 11, Issue 2, 187-196 (October 2013)
Kumar MB, Wesche S, McGuire C, Trends in Metis-related health research (1980-2009): Identification of research gaps, Canadian Journal of Public Health, Volume 103, Issue 1, 23-28 (January 2012)
Wolfe BB, Humphries MM, Pisaric MFJ, Balasubramaniam AM, Burn CR, Chan L, Cooley D, Froese DG, Graupe S, Hall RI, Lantz T, Porter TJ, Roy-Leveillee P, Turner KW, Wesche S, Williams M, Environmental change and traditional use of the Old Crow Flats in northern Canada: An IPY opportunity to meet the challenges of the new northern research paradigm, Arctic, Volume 64, Issue 1, 127-135 (January 2011)
Wesche S, Schuster R, Tobin P, Dickson C, Matthiessen D, Graupe S, Williams M, Chan HM, Community-based health research led by the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, International Journal of Circumpolar Health, Volume 70, Issue 4, 396-406 (January 2011)
Wesche S, Huynh NT, Nelson E, Ramachandran L, Challenges and opportunities in cross-cultural geographic inquiry, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Volume 34, Issue 1, 59-75 (January 2010)
Brock BE, Martin ME, Mongeon CL, Sokal MA, Wesche S, Armitage D, Wolfe BB, Hall RI, Edwards TWD, Flood frequency variability during the past 80 years in the Slave River Delta, NWT, as determined from multi-proxy paleolimnological analysis, Canadian Water Resources Journal, Volume 35, Issue 3, 281-300 (January 2010)
Wesche S, Chan HM, Adapting to the impacts of climate change on food security among Inuit in the Western Canadian Arctic, Ecohealth, Volume 7, Issue 3, 361-373 (January 2010)
Wolfe BB, Armitage D, Wesche S, Brock BE, Sokal MA, Clogg-Wright KP, Mongeon CL, Adam ME, Hall RI, Edwards TWD, From isotopes to TK interviews: Towards interdisciplinary research in Fort Resolution and the Slave River Delta, NWT, Arctic, Volume 60, Issue 1, 75-87 (January 2007)
Wesche S, Kirby K, Ghazoul J, Plant assemblages in British beech woodlands within and beyond native range: Implications of future climate change for their conversation, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 236, 385-392 (January 2006)
Book Chapters
Kenny T-A, Wesche SD, MacLean J, Reflecting on the role of peer researchers in collaborative Indigenous food security research in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada, Peer research in health and social development: International perspectives on participatory research, Routledge United Kingdom. London, 2020
Editors: Bell S, Aggleton P, Gibson A
Wesche S, Armitage D, As long as the sun shines, the river flows and the grass grows: Vulnerability, adaptation and environmental change in Deninu Kue traditional territory, Northwest Territories, CAVIAR- Community adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic regions, Page Range: 163-189, Springer Netherlands. Dordrecht, November 2010
Editors: Hovelsrud GK, Smit B
Wesche S, Armitage D, From the inside out: A multi-scale analysis of adaptive capacity in a northern community and the governance implications, Adaptive capacity: Building environmental governance in an age of uncertainty, Page Range: 107-132, Springer Germany. Heidelgerg, October 2010
Editors: Armitage D, Plummer R
Wesche S, Armitage D, Adapting to environmental change in a northern delta system, Climate change: Linking traditional and scientific knowledge, Page Range: 165-184, Aboriginal Issues Press Canada. Winnipeg, January 2006
Editors: Riewe R, Oakes J
Wesche S, Kenny T-A, MacLean J (2023). ‘What We Heard’: A Report of Community and Key Stakeholder Perspectives on Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Inuvik NT.
Johntston K, Andrachuk M, Arndt F, Huey C, Hulstein R, Jiang J, Wesche SD. (2023). COVID-19 and the Yukon Entrepreneur Podcast: Insights on Community, Innovation, Financial Support, and Communication. https://www.yukonentrepreneur.com/
McDowell G et al (2023). Canadian Mountain Assessment: Walking Together to Enhance Understanding of Mountains in Canada (First Edition). University of Calgary Press.
Snook, Jamie & S., Harper, & Etiendem Ndeloh, Denis & Perrin, Alison & Balasubramaniam, Ann & R., Alisauskas, & M., Basterfield, & C., Gruben, & J., Brammer, & Furgal, Chris & D., Henri, & Ignace, Lawrence & S., Kutz, & G., Ljubicic, & K., Nanook, & S., Peacock, & Wesche, Sonia & B., Park,. (2023). Understanding the effects of climate change on food security in northern Indigenous communities. 10.35298/pkc.2021.05.eng.
Wilson A, Levkoe CZ, Andree P, Blay-Palmer A, Boulet A, Brockington M, Ferguson R, Galloway T, Martin D, Martorell H, Robidoux M, Skinner K, Spring A, Wesche SD. (2019). Cultivating Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Food Systems in the North: A Review and Recommendations. Food Secure Canada. Montreal, QC
Wesche SD, Ballegooyen K, McKnight E, Horton B, Hik D, Woodworth S. (2019). Kluane Research Summits: Fostering reconciliation, relationships, and two-way knowledge mobilization. SSHRC. Ottawa, ON.
Wilson A, Levkoe CZ, Andree P, Blay-Palmer A, Boulet A, Brockington M, Ferguson R, Galloway T, Martin D, Martorell H, Robidoux M, Skinner K, Spring A, Wesche SD. (2018). Harvesting Resilience and Cultivating Sustainability: A Study of Northern Food Systems.
Lovecraft AM, Preston BL, Absar SM, Blair B, Cost D, Ernst KM, Fresco N, Hillmer-Pegram K, Hum R, Lee O, Machavariani F, Wesche SD, Scenarios thinking for the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Region, Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Bering-Chukchi- Beaufort Region, Page Range: 217-238, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme. Norway, 2017.
Crighton E, Barwin L, Laferriere K, Wesche SD, Chapter 4: Youth employment, culture, and well-being, Our Data, Our Stories, Our Future: The National Report of the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey, Page Range: 43-56, First Nations Information Governance Centre Canada. Ottawa, ON, July 2016
Crighton E, Barwin L, Laferriere K, Wesche SD, Chapter 5: Adult employment, culture, and well-being, Our Data, Our Stories, Our Future: The National Report of the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey, Page Range: 57-71, First Nations Information Governance Centre Canada. Ottawa, ON, July 2016