Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

1. Introduction to the CAVIAR Project and Framework
Barry Smit, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Johanna Wandel, Mark Andrachuk

2. Adaptation in Fisheries and Municipalities: Three Communities in Northern Norway
Grete K. Hovelsrud, Halvor Dannevig, Jennifer West, Helene Amundsen

3. Vulnerability and Adaptation in Two Communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Mark Andrachuk, Tristan Pearce

4. Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptation Among Nenets Reindeer Herders
Tatiana Bulgakova

5. Vulnerability of Community Infrastructure to Climate Change in Nunavut: A Case Study From Arctic Bay
James D. Ford, Trevor Bell, Dominique St-Hilaire-Gravel

6. ‘Translating’ Vulnerability at the Community Level: Case Study From the Russian North
Anna Stammler-Gossmann

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
Sonia Wesche, Derek R. Armitage

8. Case Study Photographs

9. The Ivalo River and its People: There Have Always Been Floods – What Is Different Now?
Monica Tennberg, Terhi Vuojala-Magga, Minna Turunen

10. Climate Change and Institutional Capacity in an ‘Arctic Gateway’ City: A CAVIAR Case Study of Whitehorse
Ralph Matthews, Robin Sydneysmith

11. Climate Change Vulnerability and Food Security in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland
Christina Goldhar, James D. Ford

12. Climate Change, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in a Multi-use Forest Municipality in Northern Sweden
E. Carina H. Keskitalo

13. Local Effects of Global Climate Change: Differential Experiences of Sheep Farmers and Reindeer Herders in Unjárga/Nesseby, a Coastal Sámi Community in Northern Norway
Stine Rybråten, Grete K. Hovelsrud

14. Community Adaptation and Vulnerability Integrated
Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jeremy L. White, Mark Andrachuk, Barry Smit

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