Responding to Climate Change in Northern Communities: Impacts and Adaptations

. My approach to the issue of adaptation in northern communities is based on my experience working with the community of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, and the project Inuit Observations of Climate Change (Riedlinger, 1999). The project is a collaborative research effort documenting Inuvialui...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Riedlinger, Dyanna
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2001
Subjects:
Climate change
Subsistence
Inuit
Socio-economic effects
Environmental impacts
Human bioclimatology
Hunting
Fishing
Human ecology
Adaptability (Psychology)
Sachs Harbour (Settlement)
N.W.T
Sachs Harbour region
Sachs Harbour
Northwest Territories
Arctic
inuit
Inuvialuit
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63825
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Summary:. My approach to the issue of adaptation in northern communities is based on my experience working with the community of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, and the project Inuit Observations of Climate Change (Riedlinger, 1999). The project is a collaborative research effort documenting Inuvialuit knowledge of climate change research. A secondary goal is to understand adaptive strategies used by the community to respond to climate change phenomena. Here, I describe how current climate-related environmental changes are affecting seasonal subsistence activity in Sachs Harbour and discuss how Inuvialuit are coping with such impacts.

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