2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
3136: Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Far North & Pacific Rim
Thursday, 4/19/07, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Description:
The biophysical impacts of climate change manifest most acutely
in northern latitudes. These Arctic and sub-arctic regions are home
to indigenous people who, in their mixed-subsistence livelihoods,
are directly impacted by exogenous climate related changes including
changes in seasonality, coastal erosion, increasing wildfire activity,
and thawing permafrost. These communities also experience both internally
and externally generated social, institutional and economic change
including impacts of colonization, pollution, settlement and migration,
economic restructuring, technological advance, and increasing resource
development. People living in predominantly non-native, urban centers
must also adapt to the biophysical impacts of climate change, population
growth and pressures for resource development. In keeping with the
International Polar Year 2007-2008, these panel sessions focus on
vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies in the far North. Of particular
concern are the feedbacks between climate related biophysical change
and institutional, economic, and social change in Northern regions.
Organizer: Sarah F. Trainor - University of Alaska
- Fairbanks
Chair: Sarah F. Trainor - University of Alaska
- Fairbanks
Presenters:
James Ford, PhD - Dept. of Geography, McGill University
Gita Laidler - Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto
Bill Gough - Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto
Theo Ikkumaq - Hamlet of Igloolik
Vulnerability to sea-ice change in Arctic Canada
Kumi Rattenbury - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Knut Kielland - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Greg Finstad - University of Alaska Fairbanks
William Schneider - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Reindeer Herding, Weather, and Environmental
Change on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Chie Sakakibara - University of Oklahoma
Drumming for the Whales: Climate Change and
its Impact on Iñupiat Music
Wendy R. Eisner - Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati
Kenneth M. Hinkel - Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati
Benjamin M. Jones - SAIC/USGS, Alaska Science Center
Chris J. Cuomo - Institute for Women’s Studies and Department
of Philosophy, University of Georgia
An Environmental Indigenous Knowledge (IK) GIS
for the Western Arctic Coastal Plain
Zoltan Grossman, Ph.D. - The Evergreen State College
Alan Parker, Ph.D. - The Evergreen State College
Edward Whitesell, Ph.D. - The Evergreen State College
Climate Change and the Pacific Rim Indigenous
Nations Treaty
