Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hovelsrud, Grete K. (Editor), Smit, Barry (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Human geography.; Climate Change.; Human Geography.; Social Sciences, general.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

Arctic communities are experiencing global, societal and economic pressures coupled with additional environmental changes. The comparison of local and indigenous observations with instrumental records clearly illustrates how Arctic communities, both now and in the past, have adapted to a variety of...