West Greenland's Cod-to-Shrimp Transition: Local Dimensions of Climatic Change

• Main Authors: Hamilton, Lawrence C., Brown, Benjamin C, Rasmussen, Rasmos Ole
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2003
• Subjects: Climatic change; Elias Kleist; Fisheries; Great Salinity Anomaly; Greenland; Human dimensions; North Atlantic Oscillation; Paamiut; Sisimiut; Unaami; Sociology; Disko Bay; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/171; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=soc_facpub

Abstract West Greenland's transition from a cod-fishing to a shrimp-fishing economy, ca. 1960-90, provides a case study in the human dimensions of climatic change. Physical, biological, and social systems interacted in complex ways to affect coastal communities. For this integrated case study,...