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

• Main Authors: Berkes, Fikret, Jolly, Dyanna
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2001
• 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; Sachs Harbour; Climate change; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol5/iss2/art18/

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...