Adapting to Climate Change: Social-Ecological Resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic Community

• Published in: Conservation Ecology
• Main Authors: Fikret Berkes, Dyanna Jolly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2002
• Subjects: social-ecological systems; sustainability science; Arctic; Canadian North; Inuit; Inuvialuit; adaptive strategies; climate change; community-based research; coping mechanisms; human ecology; participatory research; resilience; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Sachs Harbour; Climate change; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00342-050218; https://doaj.org/article/c481146234d44f398fba64e624b754e0

Human adaptation remains an insufficiently studied part of the subject of climate change. This paper examines the questions of adaptation and change in terms of social-ecological resilience using lessons from a place-specific case study. The Inuvialuit people of the small community of Sachs Harbour...