Vulnerability and Adaptation in Two Communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

• Main Authors: Andrachuk, M, Pearce, T
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2010
• Subjects: FoR 0502 (Environmental Science and Management); subsistence harvesting; infrastructure; Inuvialuit; Tuktoyaktuk; Ulukhaktok; Arctic; Ice; inuit; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9174-1_3

This chapter compares the Inuvialuit communities of Ulukhaktok and Tuktoyaktuk in the western Canadian Arctic according to the CAVIAR analytical framework. The comparison highlights examples of similarities and differences in exposure-sensitivities and adaptations related to subsistence harvesting a...