Publications

Highly cited research publications:

• Ford and Smit (2004): in top 5% of ranked articles in last 10 years in Arctic (50 citations)
• Ford et al (2006). Most cited of all time in Polar Record (23 citations)
• Ford et al (2006). Highly cited in Global Environmental Change (44 citations)
• Ford (2009). In top 3% of downloaded articles from Env. Res. Lettrs, a highlighted article for 2009, and recognized as an ‘Article of the year’

Published

2011

• Ford, J., et al. (2011). Canadian federal support for climate change and health research compared with the risks posed. American Journal of Public Health, 101(5), 814-821.
• Ford, J. et al. (2011). A systematic review of observed climate change adaptation in developed nations. Climatic Change Letters DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0045-5
• Ford, J. and Beaumier, M. Feeding the family during times of stress: experience and determinants of food insecurity in an Inuit community. The Geographical Journal
• Berrang-Ford, L., Ford, J., and Patterson, J. Are we adapting to climate change? Global Environmental Change (21), 25-33
• Lesnikowski, A., Ford, J., et al. 2011. Adaptation to health impacts of climate change: A systematic study of UNFCCC Annex I countries. Environmental Research Letters 6 (4),
• Ford, J., et al. Canary in a coalmine: Perceptions of climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in the Canadian mining sector. Climatic Change.
• Pearce, T., Wright, H., Notaina, R., Kudlak, A., Smit, B., Ford, J., and Furgal, C. (2011). Transmission of Environmental Knowledge and Land Skills among Inuit Men in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. Human Ecology.  39 (3), 271-288.
• Pearce, T., Ford, J. et al. (2011). Climate change and mining in Canada. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change:16 (3), 347-368.
• Pearce. T., Ford, J., et al. (2011). Advancing Adaptation Planning for Climate Change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR): A Literature Review and Gap Analysis. Regional Environmental Change, 11, 1–17.
• Lardeau, M., Healey, G., Ford, J. (2011). The use of photovoice to document and characterize the food security of users of community food programs in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Rural and Remote Health 11 (online), 2011: 1680.
• Ford, J. et al. Authorship in IPCC AR5 and its implications for content: Climate change and Indigenous populations in WGII. Climatic Change.

2010

• Ford, J., et al. (2010). Vulnerability of Aboriginal health systems in Canada to climate change. Global Env. Change 20, 668-680
• James D. Ford, E. C. H. Keskitalo, Tanya Smith, Tristan Pearce, Lea Berrang-Ford, Frank Duerden, Barry Smit (2010). Case study and analogue methodologies in climate change vulnerability research. WIRE’s Climate Change 1(3).
• Ford, J. et al (2010). Climate change policy responses for Canada’s Inuit population: The importance of and opportunities for adaptation. Global Environmental Change, 20, 177-191, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.10.008
• Ford, J.. and Pearce, T. (2010). What we know, don’t know, and need to know about climate change vulnerability in the western Canadian Arctic. Environmental Research Letters 5 (2010) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014008
• Ford, J. et al. (2010). Perceptions of climate change risks in primary resource use industries: a survey of the Canadian mining sector. Regional Environmental Change. 10(1), 65 – 81, DOI 10.1007/s10113-009-0094-8
• Ford, J. et al. Vulnerability of community infrastructure to climate change in Nunavut: A case study from Arctic Bay. In: Smit et al (eds) Climate change vulnerability and adaption in Arctic regions.
• Beaumier, M., and Ford, J. Food insecurity among Inuit females exacerbated by socio-economic stresses and climate change. Canadian Journal of Public Health 101(3), 196-201.
• Goldhar, C., Ford, J., and Berrang-Ford. Prevalence of food insecurity in a Greenlandic community and importance of social-economic-environmental stressors. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 69(3), 285-303
• Goldhar, C. and Ford, J. Climate change and food security in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland. Chapter in: Smit et al (eds) Climate change vulnerability and adaption in Arctic regions, Springer.
• Pearce, T., Smit, B., Duerden, F., Ford, J., et al. Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. Polar Record 24(148) 1-21
• Thompson. H., Berrang-Ford, L., and Ford, J. Climate change and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability. (8), 2719-2733; doi:10.3390/su2082719

2009

• Ford, J. (2009). Dangerous climate change and the importance of adaptation for the Arctic’s Inuit population. Environmental Research Letters 4, 1-9, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024006
• Ford, J. (2009). Vulnerability of Inuit food systems to food insecurity as a consequence of climate change: A case study from Igloolik, Nunavut. Regional Environmental Change 9(2), 83-100, doi: 10.1007/s10113-008-0060-x
• Ford, J. and Furgal, C. (2009). Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic. Polar Research 28(1), 1-9
• Ford, J., and Berrang-Ford, L. (2009). Food insecurity in Igloolik, Nunavut: A baseline study. Polar Record 45(234), 225-236
• Ford, J., Gough, B., Laidler, G., MacDonald, J., Qrunnut, K, and Irngaut, C., Sea ice, climate change, and community vulnerability in northern Foxe Basin, Canada. (2009). Climate Research, 37: 138-154.
• Ford, J. (2009). Sea Ice Change in Arctic Canada: Are there Limits to Inuit Adaptation? In Adger, N. et al (eds). Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, and Governance, p114-128
• Laidler, G. J., Ford, J., Gough, W. A., Ikummaq, T., Gagnon, A., Kowal, A., Qrunnut, K. and Irngaut, C. (2009). Travelling and hunting in a changing Arctic: assessing Inuit vulnerability to sea ice change in Igloolik, Nunavut. Climatic Change 94(3-4), 363-397
• Pearce, T., Ford, J. et al. Community collaboration and environmental change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research 28(1), 10-27
• Goldhar, C. Ford, J., and Berrang Ford, L. (2009). Food security in western Greenland: A case study from Qeqertarsuaq. In: Oaks, J., Riewe, R., Bruggencate, C., and Cogswell, A. (eds) Sacred Landscapes, Aboriginal Issues Press, Winnipeg.
• Berrang-Ford, L., MacLean, D., Gyorkos, T., Ford, J., and Ogden, N. (2009). Climate change and malaria in Canada: a systems approach. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases 1-13

2008

• Ford, J. (2008). Emerging trends in climate change policy: The role of adaptation. International Public Policy Review, 3(2), 5 – 15
• Ford, J. (2008). Climate, society, and natural hazards: Changing hazard exposure in two Nunavut communities. Northern Review, 28, 51-71.
• Ford, J., Smit, B., Wandel. J., Allurut, M., Shappa, K., Ittusujurat, H., and Qrunnut, K. 2008. Climate change in the Arctic: Current and future vulnerability in two Inuit communities in Canada. The Geographical Journal, 174(1) 45-62
• Ford, J., Pearce, T., Gilligan, J. Smit, B., Oakes, J. (2008). Climate change and hazards associated with ice use in Northern Canada. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40(4), 647-659

2007

• Ford, J., Pearce, B., Smit, B., Wandel, J., Allurut, M., Shappa, K., Ittusujurat, H., and Qrunnut, K. (2007) Reducing vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: The case of Nunavut, Canada. Arctic, 60 (2), 150-166.

2006

• Ford, J., Smit, B., and Wandel, J. (2006). Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic Bay, Nunavut. Global Environmental Change, 16 (2), 145-160.
• Ford, J., MacDonald, J., Smit, B., and Wandel, J. (2006). Vulnerability to climate change in Igloolik, Nunavut: What we can learn from the past and present. Polar Record, 42 (221), 127-138.
• Ford, J. and the Community of Igloolik. (2006). Sensitivity of hunting to hazards associated with climate change: Iglulingmiut perspectives. Chapter in Oaks, J., and Riewe, R. (eds) Climate Change: Linking Traditional and Scientific Knowledge, Aboriginal Issues Press, 202-235.
• Ford, J. and the Community of Arctic Bay. (2006). Hunting on thin ice: Changing risks associated with the Arctic Bay narwhal hunt. Chapter in Oaks, J., and Riewe, R. (eds) Climate Change: Linking Traditional and Scientific Knowledge, Aboriginal Issues Press, 236-254.
• Ford, J., and Wandel. J. (2006). Responding to climate change in Nunavut: Policy recommendations. Chapter in White, J., Wingert, S., Beavon, D., and Mazim, P. (eds). Aboriginal Policy Research: Moving Forward, Making a Difference, Thompson Educational Publishing, Toronto, 103-122.

2004

• Ford, J., and Smit, B. (2004). A framework for assessing the vulnerability of communities in the Canadian Arctic to risks associated with climate change. Arctic, 57(4), 389-400.

2003

• Boardman, J., Evans, R., and Ford, J. (2003) Muddy floods on the South Downs, southern England: problems and response. Journal of Environmental Science and Policy 6(1), 69-83.

In Press

Ford, J., and Pearce, T. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation research focusing on the Inuit subsistence sector in Canada: Directions for future research. The Canadian Geographer.

Cunsolo Willox, A., Harper, S., Edge, V., Landman, K., Houle, K., Ford, J., and the Rigolet Inuit Community Government. ‘The Land Enriches Our Soul:’ On environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Nunatsiavut, Canada. Emotion, Space, and Society.

In Review

Ford, J., et al. Capturing the dynamic multi-scale nature of climate change vulnerability using a longitudinal community-based monitoring approach: An Inuit harvesting example. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Ford, J. et al. Mapping human dimensions of climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Ambio.

Ford, J. et al. A literature review and gap analysis of human dimensions of climate change research in Nunavut. Nunavik, and Nunatsiavut. Arctic.

Comment

Ford, J. (2008). Comment on Susan Crate’s “Gone with the bull of winter: Grappling with the cultural implications of and anthropology’s role in global climate change.” Current Anthropology 49(4), 569-595

Edited Volumes

Ford, J. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Arctic. Special issue of Polar Research. Release date: April 2009.

Ford, J., and Berrang-Ford, L. Climate change adaptation in developed nations. Edited book with Springer.

Invited Book Reviews

Ford, J. Climate change and globalization in the Arctic by Carina Keskitalo. In Press at Arctic

Peer Reviewed Reports

Pearce, T., Ford, J.  et al. (2009). Climate change impacts and adaptations in the Canadian mining sector. Report for the David Suzuki Foundation.