Improving dialogue among researchers, local and indigenous peoples and decision-makers to address issues of climate change in the North

Abstract The Circumpolar North has been changing rapidly within the last decades, and the socioeconomic systems of the Eurasian Arctic and Siberia in particular have displayed the most dramatic changes. Here, anthropogenic drivers of environmental change such as migration and industrialization are a...

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Published in:Ambio
Main Authors: Callaghan, Terry V., Kulikova, Olga, Rakhmanova, Lidia, Topp-Jørgensen, Elmer, Labba, Niklas, Kuhmanen, Lars-Anders, Kirpotin, Sergey, Shaduyko, Olga, Burgess, Henry, Rautio, Arja, Hindshaw, Ruth S., Golubyatnikov, Leonid L., Marshall, Gareth J., Lobanov, Andrey, Soromotin, Andrey, Sokolov, Alexander, Sokolova, Natalia, Filant, Praskovia, Johansson, Margareta
Other Authors: the Government of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, The Science and Innovation Network of the British Embassy, Moscow, Tomsk State University, INTERACT
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2019
Subjects:
Ecology
Environmental Chemistry
Geography, Planning and Development
General Medicine
Arctic
Salekhard
Climate change
permafrost
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01277-9
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Summary:Abstract The Circumpolar North has been changing rapidly within the last decades, and the socioeconomic systems of the Eurasian Arctic and Siberia in particular have displayed the most dramatic changes. Here, anthropogenic drivers of environmental change such as migration and industrialization are added to climate-induced changes in the natural environment such as permafrost thawing and increased frequency of extreme events. Understanding and adapting to both types of changes are important to local and indigenous peoples in the Arctic and for the wider global community due to transboundary connectivity. As local and indigenous peoples, decision-makers and scientists perceive changes and impacts differently and often fail to communicate efficiently to respond to changes adequately, we convened a meeting of the three groups in Salekhard in 2017. The outcomes of the meeting include perceptions of how the three groups each perceive the main issues affecting health and well-being and recommendations for working together better.

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