Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic

摘要: Arctic ecosystems are already experiencing and responding to climate change. Inuit communities highly dependent on the natural environment for their livelihoods, hence particularly sensitive effects of Community-based studies across Canadian have identified several widespread vulnerabilities. Subsistence hunting is susceptible changes in wildlife populations access areas; permafrost degradation has implications community infrastructure coastal erosion; availability harvested food contribute an additional risk people s health; erosion environmental knowledge land skills enhances vulnerability hunters risks; economic opportunities may come with more shipping, but be constrained by closed ice roads limits sport industry.