West Greenland’s cod-to-shrimp transition: local dimensions of climatic change. Arctic 56

• Main Authors: Lawrence C. Hamilton, Benjamin C. Brown, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Key words; Greenland; fisheries; climatic change; human dimensions; Sisimiut; Paamiut; Elias Kleist; North Atlantic Oscillation; Great Salinity Anomaly; Unaami; Arctic; Disko Bay; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.401.5600; http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/Greenland_Arctic.pdf

ABSTRACT. West Greenland’s transition from a cod-fishing to a shrimp-fishing economy, ca. 1960–90, provides a case study in the human dimensions of climatic change. Physical, biological, and social systems interacted in complex ways to affect coastal communities. For this integrated case study, we e...