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- Title
Community-based vulnerability assessment of Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada to environmental and socio-economic changes.
- Authors
Andrachuk, Mark; Smit, Barry
- Abstract
Environmental change in the Canadian Arctic has implications for livelihoods, food systems, infrastructure and Inuit culture. Although Inuit communities are located in industrialized countries, their integral connections with the natural environments contribute to significant exposures and sensitivities to changing conditions. This paper characterizes the vulnerability of Tuktoyaktuk in the western Canadian Arctic to climate change in the context of ongoing socio-economic and environmental changes. Existing stresses in the community influence infrastructure, livelihoods and wellbeing. Strategies for adapting to adverse conditions have largely been tactical and short term, rather than planned actions in anticipation of changes in climate. In light of projected intensification of climate change and a proposed natural gas pipeline in the Tuktoyaktuk area, the community is expected to experience new stresses in the future. Future adaptation planning and policy needs to enable community involvement in the protection of important community attributes.
- Subjects
TUKTOYAKTUK (N.W.T.); NORTHWEST Territories; NORTHERN Canada; GLOBAL environmental change; CLIMATE change; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; INUIT
- Publication
Regional Environmental Change, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 4, p867
- ISSN
1436-3798
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10113-012-0299-0