Perceptions and implications of thawing permafrost and climate change in two Inupiaq villages of arctic Alaska

• Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2013
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > PERMAFROST; FIELD SURVEY; society; environment; Arctic; Climate change; Inupiaq; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2SW3D

Survey responses of residents of the arctic Inupiaq villages of Anaktuvuk Pass (n=39) and Selawik (n=41), Alaska. The survey elicited local knowledge, perceptions, and speculations about current and future implications of thawing permafrost and other aspects of climate change for ways of life in these communities, focusing on subsistence, infrastructure, water resources, and transportation as key areas of potential impacts. Human dimensions data were collected and analyzed in conjunction with local thaw depth data as part of an interdisciplinary study of the implications of thawing permafrost and climate change for the social-ecological systems of two communities whose ways of life rely on close interactions with their local environments.