Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada | Dr. James Ford

• Main Author: virginielariviere
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: French
• Published: Adaptation aux changements climatiques / RADAR 2010
• Subjects: scipo; demo; Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Ulukhaktok; Climate change; inuit
• Online Access: http://adaptationclimat.hypotheses.org/696

Climate change is already being experienced in the Arctic with implications for ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. This paper argues that an assessment of community vulnerability to climate change requires knowledge of past experience with climate conditions, responses to climatic variations, future climate change projections, and non-climate factors that influence people’s susceptibility and adaptive capacity. The paper documents and describes exposure sensitivities to clima.