Scoping the risks associated with accelerated coastal permafrost thaw : lessons from Bykovsky (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation) and Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada)

• Main Authors: Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul, Overduin, Paul, Forbes, Donald L., Shadrin, Vyacheslav, Doloisio, Natalia
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association-Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, Institute of Humanities and Northern Indigenous Peoples, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Sakha; Tuktoyaktuk; Climate change; permafrost; Sakha Republic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01888064; https://hal.science/hal-01888064/document; https://hal.science/hal-01888064/file/Poster%20EGU%202018_Vfinal-compressed.pdf

International audience 1. Permafrost thaw generates risks for Arctic communities that are broad and cross-cutting.2. Current models of risk under climate change may not be able to address such categories of risk.3. We propose an initial scoping of existing risk models using field observations.