How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard
Master's thesis in Energy, Environment and Society The purpose of the thesis is to examine the affect climate change has on polar bears and ringed seals subjective world. Climate change is affecting the world negatively in many ways. Biodiversity is essential for all life on our planet and to a...
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ftunivstavanger:oai:uis.brage.unit.no:11250/2621785 2023-06-11T04:09:08+02:00 How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard Bertelsen, Ida Tingvik Tønnessen, Morten Svalbard 2019-06 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2621785 eng eng University of Stavanger, Norway Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2018; http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2621785 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no Arctic Svalbard Umwelt transition The tripartite umwelt model polar bears ringed seal climate change klimaendringer biodiversity ecosystem zoosemiotics umwelt functional cycle phenomenal fields ontological map økosystem isbjørn energi miljø og samfunn VDP::Social science: 200 VDP::Technology: 500::Environmental engineering: 610 Master thesis 2019 ftunivstavanger 2023-05-29T16:02:54Z Master's thesis in Energy, Environment and Society The purpose of the thesis is to examine the affect climate change has on polar bears and ringed seals subjective world. Climate change is affecting the world negatively in many ways. Biodiversity is essential for all life on our planet and to achieve a sustainable development. There has already been talk about a possible sixth mass extinction if we keep treating our planet like we do today. Despite not having the most important role in the ecosystem, polar bears have become a symbol not only for Arctic but for climate change globally – affecting our understanding of climate change and its effect on biodiversity and thus the decisions taken in among policy and conservation work. Polar bears and ringed seals as other arctic mammals are also driven to the edge of their natural habitat, having no place to “run”. The situation on Svalbard is unique as it is one of the places on planet earth where climate change is most significant as it happens more than twice as fast as the rest of the world. This thesis provides a zoosemiotics analysis of the effect of climate change on polar bears and ringed seals in Svalbard. Zoosemiotics and Umwelt theory enables us to investigate the subjective world of polar bears and ringed seals, how they communicate, and how climate change is changing their relationship. It gives a holistic approach to the challenges faced by polar bears and ringed seals as it connect the changes related to biology, but also examine how human representation of polar bears affect our perception which ultimately can affect what actions we take when it comes to climate change and consequently affect polar bears and other species subjective world. Master Thesis Arctic Climate change isbjørn ringed seal Svalbard University of Stavanger: UiS Brage Arctic Svalbard |
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Arctic Svalbard Umwelt transition The tripartite umwelt model polar bears ringed seal climate change klimaendringer biodiversity ecosystem zoosemiotics umwelt functional cycle phenomenal fields ontological map økosystem isbjørn energi miljø og samfunn VDP::Social science: 200 VDP::Technology: 500::Environmental engineering: 610 |
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Arctic Svalbard Umwelt transition The tripartite umwelt model polar bears ringed seal climate change klimaendringer biodiversity ecosystem zoosemiotics umwelt functional cycle phenomenal fields ontological map økosystem isbjørn energi miljø og samfunn VDP::Social science: 200 VDP::Technology: 500::Environmental engineering: 610 Bertelsen, Ida Tingvik How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
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Arctic Svalbard Umwelt transition The tripartite umwelt model polar bears ringed seal climate change klimaendringer biodiversity ecosystem zoosemiotics umwelt functional cycle phenomenal fields ontological map økosystem isbjørn energi miljø og samfunn VDP::Social science: 200 VDP::Technology: 500::Environmental engineering: 610 |
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Master's thesis in Energy, Environment and Society The purpose of the thesis is to examine the affect climate change has on polar bears and ringed seals subjective world. Climate change is affecting the world negatively in many ways. Biodiversity is essential for all life on our planet and to achieve a sustainable development. There has already been talk about a possible sixth mass extinction if we keep treating our planet like we do today. Despite not having the most important role in the ecosystem, polar bears have become a symbol not only for Arctic but for climate change globally – affecting our understanding of climate change and its effect on biodiversity and thus the decisions taken in among policy and conservation work. Polar bears and ringed seals as other arctic mammals are also driven to the edge of their natural habitat, having no place to “run”. The situation on Svalbard is unique as it is one of the places on planet earth where climate change is most significant as it happens more than twice as fast as the rest of the world. This thesis provides a zoosemiotics analysis of the effect of climate change on polar bears and ringed seals in Svalbard. Zoosemiotics and Umwelt theory enables us to investigate the subjective world of polar bears and ringed seals, how they communicate, and how climate change is changing their relationship. It gives a holistic approach to the challenges faced by polar bears and ringed seals as it connect the changes related to biology, but also examine how human representation of polar bears affect our perception which ultimately can affect what actions we take when it comes to climate change and consequently affect polar bears and other species subjective world. |
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Tønnessen, Morten |
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Bertelsen, Ida Tingvik |
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How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
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How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
title_full |
How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
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How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
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How Animals are Affected by Climate Change – A Zoosemiotic Investigation of Polar Bears and Ringed Seals on Svalbard |
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how animals are affected by climate change – a zoosemiotic investigation of polar bears and ringed seals on svalbard |
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University of Stavanger, Norway |
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2019 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2621785 |
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Svalbard |
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Arctic Svalbard |
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Arctic Svalbard |
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Arctic Climate change isbjørn ringed seal Svalbard |
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Arctic Climate change isbjørn ringed seal Svalbard |
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Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IMS/2018; http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2621785 |
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Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no |
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