While waiting for the sea ice: Stories of changes from Ittoqqortoormiit (Kalaallit Nunaat)

• Main Authors: Sandré, Tanguy, Gherardi, Jeanne-Marie, Wardekker, Arjan
• Other Authors: Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen (UiB)
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Climate change; Sea ice; Arctic; Resilience; Narratives; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Greenland; Ittoqqortoormiit; Greenland Sea; greenlandic; kalaaleq; kalaallit; Kalaallit Nunaat
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04250661; https://hal.science/hal-04250661/document; https://hal.science/hal-04250661/file/proof1a_07_Sandr%C3%A9_9783111245515_Bremer_1223_EC-TS.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111245591-007

International audience For many small communities in the Arctic, climate change-driven variations in the sea-ice thickness and extent are a central experience of recent environmental transformations. In Ittoqqortoormiit (Box 1), Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), sea ice is a ‘character’ that featured in...