Adaptive capacity for climate change: Local initiatives and federal planning. The case of Tiksi, Sakha Republic, Russia

• Published in: Polar Science
• Main Authors: da Cunha, Charlotte, Nikulkina, Inga, Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul, Shadrin, Vyacheslav, Doloisio, Natalia, Salakhova, Dina
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, North-Eastern Federal University, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: Climate change; Adaptive capacities; Sakha republic; Uncertainties; Federal-level dependency; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; Arctic; Sakha; Tiksi; Polar Science; Sakha Republic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03425267; https://hal.science/hal-03425267/document; https://hal.science/hal-03425267/file/Adaptive%20capacity%20for%20climate%20change.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2021.100761

International audience Climate change exacerbates existing threats and risks and generates new ones in the lives of the Indigenous people of the Arctic regions. The ability to cope with climate variability and extreme events is largely dependent on territorial adaptive capacities and vulnerabilities...