Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities
BACKGROUND: Canada has recognized that Aboriginal and northern communities in the country face unique challenges and that there is a need to expand the assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change to include these communities. Evidence suggests that Canada’s North is already experiencing signific...
Main Authors: | , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2006
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.3038 |
id |
ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.280.3038 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.280.3038 2023-05-15T14:57:19+02:00 Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities Christopher Furgal Jacinthe Seguin The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2006 application/zip http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.3038 en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.3038 Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/74/8d/Environ_Health_Perspect_2006_Dec_11_114(12)_1964-1970.tar.gz KEY WORDS Aboriginal adaptive capacity Arctic climate change Inuit vulnerability. Environ text 2006 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T21:02:52Z BACKGROUND: Canada has recognized that Aboriginal and northern communities in the country face unique challenges and that there is a need to expand the assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change to include these communities. Evidence suggests that Canada’s North is already experiencing significant changes in its climate—changes that are having negative impacts on the lives of Aboriginal people living in these regions. Research on climate change and health impacts in northern Canada thus far has brought together Aboriginal community members, government representatives, and researchers and is charting new territory. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this article we review experiences from two projects that have taken a community-based dialogue approach to identifying and assessing the effects of and vulnerability to climate change and the impact on the health in two Inuit regions of the Canadian Arctic. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the two case projects that we present argue for a multi-stakeholder, participatory framework for assessment that supports the necessary analysis, understanding, and enhancement of capabilities of local areas to respond and adapt to the health impacts at the local level. Text Arctic Climate change inuit Unknown Arctic Canada |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Unknown |
op_collection_id |
ftciteseerx |
language |
English |
topic |
KEY WORDS Aboriginal adaptive capacity Arctic climate change Inuit vulnerability. Environ |
spellingShingle |
KEY WORDS Aboriginal adaptive capacity Arctic climate change Inuit vulnerability. Environ Christopher Furgal Jacinthe Seguin Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
topic_facet |
KEY WORDS Aboriginal adaptive capacity Arctic climate change Inuit vulnerability. Environ |
description |
BACKGROUND: Canada has recognized that Aboriginal and northern communities in the country face unique challenges and that there is a need to expand the assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change to include these communities. Evidence suggests that Canada’s North is already experiencing significant changes in its climate—changes that are having negative impacts on the lives of Aboriginal people living in these regions. Research on climate change and health impacts in northern Canada thus far has brought together Aboriginal community members, government representatives, and researchers and is charting new territory. METHODS AND RESULTS: In this article we review experiences from two projects that have taken a community-based dialogue approach to identifying and assessing the effects of and vulnerability to climate change and the impact on the health in two Inuit regions of the Canadian Arctic. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the two case projects that we present argue for a multi-stakeholder, participatory framework for assessment that supports the necessary analysis, understanding, and enhancement of capabilities of local areas to respond and adapt to the health impacts at the local level. |
author2 |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
format |
Text |
author |
Christopher Furgal Jacinthe Seguin |
author_facet |
Christopher Furgal Jacinthe Seguin |
author_sort |
Christopher Furgal |
title |
Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
title_short |
Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
title_full |
Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
title_fullStr |
Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
title_full_unstemmed |
Research | Mini-Monograph Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities |
title_sort |
research | mini-monograph climate change, health, and vulnerability in canadian northern aboriginal communities |
publishDate |
2006 |
url |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.3038 |
geographic |
Arctic Canada |
geographic_facet |
Arctic Canada |
genre |
Arctic Climate change inuit |
genre_facet |
Arctic Climate change inuit |
op_source |
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/74/8d/Environ_Health_Perspect_2006_Dec_11_114(12)_1964-1970.tar.gz |
op_relation |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.3038 |
op_rights |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
_version_ |
1766329405706076160 |