work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” Social impacts of climate changes: A Greenlandic case study
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). The Greenla...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:86715ef26e754da689888628f9c257ac 2023-05-15T16:31:08+02:00 work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” Social impacts of climate changes: A Greenlandic case study Roanne van Voorst 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v2i3.29 https://doaj.org/article/86715ef26e754da689888628f9c257ac EN eng AOSIS https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/29 https://doaj.org/toc/1996-1421 https://doaj.org/toc/2072-845X 1996-1421 2072-845X doi:10.4102/jamba.v2i3.29 https://doaj.org/article/86715ef26e754da689888628f9c257ac Jàmbá, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 235-254 (2009) Risk in industry. Risk management HD61 article 2009 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v2i3.29 2022-12-31T02:57:47Z 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). The Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethnographic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant observation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. The empirical findings 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper greenlandic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 2 3 |
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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). The Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethnographic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant observation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. The empirical findings 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. |
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