Mon, Mar 23, 2009
New Issue Available Polar Research 28 (1) April 2009
Special edition on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability in the Arctic.The Norwegian Polar Institute announces the availability of a new issue of Polar Research, volume 28 (1), April 2009. The volume is a special edition on change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Arctic.
Edited by James Ford and Chris Furgal, the special edition features the following manuscripts:
- Climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic: James D. Ford and Chris Furgal
- Community Collaboration and Climate Change Research in the Canadian Arctic: Tristan Pearce et al.
- Arctic climate change discourse: the contrasting politics of research agendas in the West and Russia: Bruce Forbes and Florian Stammler
- Community clusters in wildlife and environmental management: using TEK and community involvement to improve co-management in an era of rapid environmental change: Martha Dowsley
- The role of governance in community adaptation to climate change: E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Antonina A. Kulyasova
- A reindeer herder's perspective on caribou, weather and socio-economic change on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Kumi Rattenbury et al.
- Canadian Inuit subsistence and ecological instability- if the climate changes, must the Inuit? George Wenzel
- Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska: Sarah Trainor et al.
- Demographic and environmental conditions are uncoupled in the social-ecological system of the Pribilof Islands: Henry Huntington et al.
- From good to eat to good to watch: whale watching, adaptation and change in Icelandic fishing communities: Níels Einarsson
Dr James Ford
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Geography
McGill University
james.ford@mcgill.ca
http://www.arctic-north.com/JamesPersonalWebsite/
- Climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic: James D. Ford and Chris Furgal
- Community Collaboration and Climate Change Research in the Canadian Arctic: Tristan Pearce et al.
- Arctic climate change discourse: the contrasting politics of research agendas in the West and Russia: Bruce Forbes and Florian Stammler
- Community clusters in wildlife and environmental management: using TEK and community involvement to improve co-management in an era of rapid environmental change: Martha Dowsley
- The role of governance in community adaptation to climate change: E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Antonina A. Kulyasova
- A reindeer herder's perspective on caribou, weather and socio-economic change on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Kumi Rattenbury et al.
- Canadian Inuit subsistence and ecological instability- if the climate changes, must the Inuit? George Wenzel
- Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska: Sarah Trainor et al.
- Demographic and environmental conditions are uncoupled in the social-ecological system of the Pribilof Islands: Henry Huntington et al.
- From good to eat to good to watch: whale watching, adaptation and change in Icelandic fishing communities: Níels Einarsson
Dr James Ford
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Geography
McGill University
james.ford@mcgill.ca
http://www.arctic-north.com/