Community resilience – Systems and approaches in remote settlements

• Published in: Progress in Disaster Science
• Main Author: Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200; Arctic; Uummannaq Fjord; Uummannaq
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3063365; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100253

This paper explores community resilience to climate-related disasters in the Arctic using the example of a tsunami event in the Uummannaq fjord systems. In 2017 the fjord experienced an avalanche-induced tsunami that devastated one settlement while another was abandoned. Investigations revealed unst...