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Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

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Editors:
  1. Grete K. Hovelsrud

    1. Environmental Research - Oslo CICERO, Center for International Climate and, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Barry Smit

    1. , Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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  • Documents and assesses the nature of vulnerability in communities across the entire Arctic
  • Interdisciplinary research approach
  • Demonstrates the importance of a shared analytical framework for comparing results across case studies
  • Empirical examples of vulnerabilities and adaptive strategies from a region of the world commonly viewed as having high susceptibility to climate change

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction to the CAVIAR Project and Framework

    • Barry Smit, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Johanna Wandel, Mark Andrachuk
    Pages 1-22

  3. Adaptation in Fisheries and Municipalities: Three Communities in Northern Norway

    • Grete K. Hovelsrud, Halvor Dannevig, Jennifer West, Helene Amundsen
    Pages 23-62

  4. Vulnerability and Adaptation in Two Communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

    • Mark Andrachuk, Tristan Pearce
    Pages 63-81

  5. Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation Among Nenets Reindeer Herders

    • Tatiana Bulgakova
    Pages 83-105

  6. Vulnerability of Community Infrastructure to Climate Change in Nunavut: A Case Study From Arctic Bay

    • James D. Ford, Trevor Bell, Dominique St-Hilaire-Gravel
    Pages 107-130

  7. ‘Translating’ Vulnerability at the Community Level: Case Study From the Russian North

    • Anna Stammler-Gossmann
    Pages 131-162

  8. ‘As Long as the Sun Shines, the Rivers Flow and Grass Grows’: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Environmental Change in Deninu Kue Traditional Territory, Northwest Territories

    • Sonia Wesche, Derek R. Armitage
    Pages 163-189

  9. Case Study Photographs

    • Case Study Photographs
    Pages 191-219

  10. The Ivalo River and its People: There Have Always Been Floods – What Is Different Now?

    • Monica Tennberg, Terhi Vuojala-Magga, Minna Turunen
    Pages 221-237

  11. Climate Change and Institutional Capacity in an ‘Arctic Gateway’ City: A CAVIAR Case Study of Whitehorse

    • Ralph Matthews, Robin Sydneysmith
    Pages 239-261

  12. Climate Change Vulnerability and Food Security in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland

    • Christina Goldhar, James D. Ford
    Pages 263-283

  13. Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in a Multi-use Forest Municipality in Northern Sweden

    • E. Carina H. Keskitalo
    Pages 285-311

  14. Local Effects of Global Climate Change: Differential Experiences of Sheep Farmers and Reindeer Herders in Unjárga/Nesseby, a Coastal Sámi Community in Northern Norway

    • Stine Rybråten, Grete K. Hovelsrud
    Pages 313-333

  15. Community Adaptation and Vulnerability Integrated

    • Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jeremy L. White, Mark Andrachuk, Barry Smit
    Pages 335-348

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 349-353
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About this book

The ‘Year’ That Changed How We View the North This book is about a new theoretical approach that transformed the field of Arctic social studies and about a program called International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) that altered the position of social research within the broader polar science. The concept for IPY was developed in 2003–2005; its vision was for researchers from many nations to work together to gain cro- disciplinary insight into planetary processes, to explore and increase our understanding of the polar regions, the Arctic and Antarctica, and of their roles in the global system. IPY 2007–2008, the fourth program of its kind, followed in the footsteps of its predecessors, the first IPY in 1882–1883, the second IPY in 1932–1933, and the third IPY (later renamed to ‘International Geophysical Year’ or IGY) in 1957–1958. All earlier IPY/IGY have been primarily geophysical initiatives, with their focus on meteorology, atmospheric and geomagnetic observations, and with additional emphasis on glaciology and sea ice circulation. As such, they excluded socio-economic disciplines and polar indigenous people, often deliberately, except for limited ethnographic and natural history collection work conducted by some expeditions of the first IPY. That once dominant vision biased heavily towards geophysics, oceanography, and ice-sheets, left little if any place for people, that is, the social sciences and the humanities, in what has been commonly viewed as the ‘hard-core’ polar research.

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“This book aims to present a human approach to understanding the vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities of communities, particularly those in the Arctic, that are experiencing rapid socio-economic and environmental changes. … I recommend this book particularly for Arctic researchers … . The book is also recommended for students in the social sciences, who can increase their understanding of the vulnerability of Arctic communities and apply the framework and knowledge developed by the multidisciplinary team in their studies and future careers.”­­­ (Arctic, December, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Research - Oslo CICERO, Center for International Climate and, Oslo, Norway

    Grete K. Hovelsrud

  • , Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

    Barry Smit

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