Things change, we change : planning for resilience in the Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Parewick, Kathleen
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Gjoa Haven; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Sachs Harbour; Tuktoyaktuk; Ice; inuit; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/6163/; https://research.library.mun.ca/6163/1/Parewick_Kathleen.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/6163/3/Parewick_Kathleen.pdf

This dissertation addresses climate and coastal changes in three small communities across the Canadian Arctic. The most pressing physical hazards were observed in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) where erosive storm action and floods act on low-lying thermokarst terrain and shoreline infrast...