Knowledge co-production and co-management of Arctic wildlife

We live in an era of rapid climate change in which the Arctic is experiencing amplified impacts that its residents, particularly its Indigenous inhabitants, have directly observed and experienced over the past several decades (ACIA 2005; IPCC 2019). Many of the issues affecting Arctic peoples and ecosystems today can be characterized as “wicked” problems, or those problems to which there is no single solution (Balint et al. 2011). Wicked problems necessitate drawing upon all relevant sources of information to approach problem using diverse and integrated approaches that transcend knowledge systems and disciplines.