Recent Publications (2025) 

1) Rahman, Tuihedur HM and David Natcher, 2025. Addressing Gaps in Integrative Water-Energy-Food-Forest (WEFF) Nexus Governance. Environmental Science and Policy (in press).

2) Yu, Xiaolei, David Natcher, Christy Morrissey, and Melissa Arcand, 2025. First Nations Reserve Expansion and Land Cover Dynamics Since Treaty Land Entitlement in the Prairie Region of Saskatchewan, Canada. Frontiers in Environmental Science 13: 1642641. http://doi:10.3389/fenvs.2025.1642641  

 3) Natcher, David, H M Tuihedur Rahman, Andrey Mineev, Sarah Seabrook Kendall, Frode Mellemvik, Timo Koivurova, Ilona Mettiäinen, Embla Eir Oddottir, and Peter Skold, 2025. Understanding Regional Variability in Water, Energy and Food (WEF) Security: An Arctic Case-Study. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 1-11 (on-line first) https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2025.2531568

 4) Clark, Lisa, Andrey Mineev and David Natcher, 2025. Fostering Innovation in Arctic Food Industries. Canadian Food Studies (in press).

 5) Oveisi, Shima, Mazaher Moeinaddini and David Natcher, 2025. Life Cycle Assessment of Fishing Vessels Exporting Fish from the Arctic. Science of the Total Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179659  (on-line first).

6) Matthew, Emmanuel, Sabine Liebenehm, David Natcher, Patrick Lloyd-Smith, and Omid Mirzaei, 2025. Food Prices Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Remote Indigenous Community in Northern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics http://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12389 (on-line first).

7) Rahman, Tuihedur, Shawn Ingram, Qihang Liand, and David Natcher, 2025. Warming Arctic and its Cascading Impacts on Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) Systems: A Case Study of Iqaluit, Nunavut. Arctic(in press).

8) Lilianne Williams-Ameen, Daniel Rutherford, Brandon Bellows, Jaana Sorvali and David Natcher, 2025. An Exploration of Youth Attitudes on Climate Change in Alaska and Northern Canada. Arctic (in press).

9) Natcher, David, Shawn Ingram, Ana-Maria Bogdan and Xiaojing Lu, 2025. Food Security, First Nations, and Anthropological Praxis in the Peace River Basin, Canada. Human Organization 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2025.2484533  (on-line first)

10) Rahman H.M. Tuihedur, Ashlee-Ann Pigford, and David Natcher, 2025. Path-dependent Pathways of Inter-Institutional Gaps in Natural Resource Management. In H.M. Tuihedur and Ashlee-Ann Pigford (eds.), Institutional Diversity and Sustainable Environmental Management. Boca Raton, CRC Press: 15-37.

11) Rognerud, Live, Cara Williams, and David Natcher, 2025. Sustainable Development Goals and the Arctic. In Solveig Glomsrod, Gerard Duhaime, and Iulie Aslaksen (eds.), The Economy of the North (ECONOR). Statistics Norway, Oslo-Kongsvinger: 231-246. https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/items/d7c37504-e348-4a82-a856-baa6b15a1c15

Cultural Landscapes and the Environment (ANTH 240)

Cultural landscapes is a key theme within Anthropology that provides critical connections between theory and practice. In this course, we explore the cultural construction of landscapes, and the reciprocal influences between humans and the environment. Through topical weekly readings and field activities, the course demonstrates that landscapes are not merely natural and uninhabited spaces but rather are shaped and interpreted by human cultures. This course will be of interest to students seeking a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between human societies and the physical environment, and how this relationship manifests in the landscapes we inhabit.

I am an applied cultural anthropologist with expertise in economic and environmental anthropology. My research is focused on the complex relationship between culture, economy, and the maintenance of Indigenous livelihoods. 

1999    PhD     Anthropology                                      University of Alberta               

1996    MA      Arctic and Northern Studies               University of Alaska Fairbanks             

1989    BA        Business Administration                     Mercyhurst University (Erie, Pa.)