Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

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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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.

• Adaptation
• Arctic
• Communities
• Vulnerability
• climate change
• environmental change
• integration
• climate change impacts

From the reviews:

“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)

• 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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