• Main Author: Roanne Van Voorst
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: greenlandic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.1286; http://acds.co.za/uploads/jamba/vol2no3/van_voorst.pdf

Understanding human adaptation to climate changes is one of the most important research issues within the area of global environmental change, accounting for the fact that people worldwide are currently adapting to their changing environment (Adger and Kelly 2000: 253; Smit et al. 2008). #e Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethno-graphic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant ob-servation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. #e empirical $ndings as presented in this paper suggest that an exclusive and gender-neutral focus of policy makers on economic aspects of adaptation to climate changes may increase socio-economic inequality as well as male domestic violence over women. Social research can help to identify such chains of reactions resulting from climate changes and related policies, by focusing on individual adaptation strategies of male and female actors in vulnerable societies. climate changes, adaptation, social inequality, gender, policy