What we know, don’t know, and need to know about climate change vulnerability in the ISR

(completed: 2009)
Funding: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Research leads: James Ford and Tristan Pearce

This project developed and applied a systematic literature review methodology to develop an understanding of the determinants of climate change vulnerability in the ISR. Reviewing over 400 publications, the project was one of the first in an environmental change context to develop a systematic review approach; research which the group is currently expanding

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    Environmental Research Web: Arctic adaptation: spotting the knowledge gaps

    2010 February 15
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    Our recent paper in ERL is profiled in Environmental Research Web by Liz Kalaugher. Read the original version here.

    Parts of the Canadian Arctic have seen temperatures rise by more than 2 °C over the last fifty years. Since many of the people in the region depend on harvesting fish and wildlife such as seal, whale, caribou and musk-ox for food and clothing, they are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

    With this in mind, two Canadian researchers have reviewed the large body of literature on climate change vulnerability in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in the western Canadian Arctic. Their plan? To identify gaps in knowledge. Continue Reading

    by James Ford      → Adaptation in the News