2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
3236: Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Strategies
in the Far North
Thursday, 4/19/07, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 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:
Claude Peloquin - Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Fikret Berkes - Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Abstract: Variability,
change, and continuity: insights from Cree cultural ecology
Sonia Wesche, PhD (ABD) - Wilfrid Laurier University
Derek Armitage, PhD - Wilfrid Laurier University
Abstract: Responding
to environmental change: Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity
through northern research partnerships
Colin M Beier, PhD Candidate - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Trista Patterson, PhD - USDA PNW Forestry Sciences Lab, Juneau AK
Abstract: Mapping
Social-Ecological Vulnerability: Ecosystem Services, Human Use and
Disturbance
Gita J. Laidler - University of Toronto
Abstract: Cultural
geographies of sea ice use around Baffin Island, Nunavut
Casey Thornbrugh, MA, PhD student - University of Arizona
Abstract: Global
Climate Change and Indian Country
