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Vulnerability to Climate Change in Arctic Canada

Vulnerability to Climate Change in Arctic Canada

Ford, James

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeography

ISBN10: 3639038606
ISBN13: 9783639038606
Publisher: Blues Kids Of Amer
Published: Jun 13 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is strong evidence that climate change is underway in the Arctic, with implications for Canada's Inuit population. This book investigates vulnerability to climate change among Inuit communities in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It begins by deve-loping a conceptual model and analytical approach to guide vul-nerability analysis. The model is applied using two in-depth commu-nity case studies (Arctic Bay and Igloolik), where 119 interviews, participant observation, analysis of secondary sources, and biophysical modeling were conducted. The research highlights that climate change is occurring in the Canadian Arctic and is affecting Inuit livelihoods. Vulnerability to climate change, however, is not simply a function of changing climatic conditions, and the book situates the emergence of vulnerable groups in the context of social, economic and political changes experienced in the second half of the twentieth century. The book will be of interest to those working in Arctic regions on human dimensions of climate change research. More broadly, the vulnerability approach developed in the book will of interest to the climate change vulnerability community in general.

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