Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Pearce, T, Smit, B, Duerden, F, Ford, J D, Goose, A, Kataoyak, F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
• Subjects: FoR 0502 (Environmental Science and Management); Arctic; Canada; Northwest Territories; Ulukhaktok; Climate change; inuit; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247409008602

Climate change is already being experienced in the Arctic with implications for ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. This paper argues that an assessment of community vulnerability to climate change requires knowledge of past experience with climate conditions, responses to climatic v...