The survey of living conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA): A comparative sustainable livelihoods assessment

摘要: The Arctic is a region of the world experiencing extremely rapid climatic and social change. Indigenous communities have faced similar challenges for millennia historically demonstrated remarkable resilience to socioecological perturbations. In contemporary contexts, however, it appears that pace extent change overwhelming adaptive capacities many indigenous communities. Scholars recently completed survey living conditions spanning circumpolar quantitatively document impacts ecological stress across regions. database they created called Survey Living Conditions in or SLiCA. This article explores utility using this dataset compare livelihood systems three sub-regions Alaska four within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Russian Federation. results point out substantially lower level sustainability than Northwest due high prevalence vulnerable households.