Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

Abstract

Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction to the CAVIAR project and framework 2. Adaptation in Fisheries and Municipalities: Three communities in Northern Norway 3. Vulnerability and Adaptation in Two Communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region 4. Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation among Nenets reindeer herders 5. Vulnerability of community infrastructure to climate change in Nunavut: A case study from Arctic Bay 6. 'Translating' vulnerability at the community level: Case study from the Russian North 7. 'As long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and grass grows.' - Vulnerability, adaptation and environmental change in Deninu Kue Traditional Territory, Northwest Territories 8. Case Study Photographs 9.The Ivalo River and its people: There have always been floods - what is different now? 10. Climate Change and Institutional Capacity in an 'Arctic Gateway' City: a Case Study of Whitehorse, Yukon 11. Climate change vulnerability and food security in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland 12. Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in a multi-use forest municipality in northern Sweden 13. Local effects of global climate change: Differential experiences of sheep farmers and reindeer herders in Unjarga/Nesseby, a coastal Sami community in Northern Norway 14. Integration of case study findings