The Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Climate Change for First Nations Living in the Canadian Subarctic

• Main Author: Barbeau, Christine
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2017
• Subjects: Subarctic; Climate Change; First Nations; Food Security; Social Sustainability; Ecological Sustainability; Adaptive Capacity; climatic changes; climate change mitigation; Indians of North America; sustainable development; indigenous peoples; Canada; Arctic regions; Arctic; Fort Albany; Climate change; inuit; Metis; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12042

Background: The impacts of climate change are more pronounced in high latitude regions of the world, which includes the Canadian arctic and subarctic. Warming events are triggering widespread ecological and social impacts – resulting in increased challenges to those who call these regions home. It i...