Effects of increase in temperature and open water on transmigration and access to health care by the Nenets reindeer herders in northern Russia

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Philippe Amstislavski, Leonid Zubov, Herman Chen, Pietro Ceccato, Jean-Francois Pekel, Jeremy Weedon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013
• Subjects: climate change; health services access; hydrology; indigenous peoples; permafrost; Rangifer tarandus; remote sensing; satellite imagery; surface water; water bodies; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Nes; Nes’; Circumpolar Health; Climate change; Ice; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Kanin peninsula; nenets; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21183; https://doaj.org/article/5285f2230ca24ac2975aca0fe54c5a29

Background . The indigenous Nenets reindeer herders in northern Russia annually migrate several hundred kilometers between summer and winter pastures. In the warming climate, ice-rich permafrost and glaciers are being significantly reduced and will eventually disappear from parts of the Arctic. The...