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Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic - An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment (Hardcover)
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Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic - An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Climate
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Climate change vulnerability assessment-to assess people's overall
vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change-is a rapidly
developing field. However, despite the fact that major trends such
as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political
and economic governance systems are crucial in impacting and
shaping a community's capacity to adapt to climate change, these
trends are seldom included in climate change vulnerability
assessments. An applied methodology and framework for qualitative
assessment of vulnerability based in the present and on people's
own perceptions of their realities has so far largely been lacking.
This book addresses these shortcomings in that it first develops a
methodology and framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment
in "multiple impact" studies (of climate change and globalization),
and then applies the framework to several cases of renewable
natural resource use across scales. The book draws upon case
studies of forestry and fishing-two of the largest sectors that
rely on renewable natural resources-and reindeer herding in the
European North, and includes data from some sixty semi-structured
interviews and seven stakeholder meetings. The study represents a
bottom-up view, originating with the stakeholders themselves, of
the degree to which stakeholders find adaptation to climate change
possible, how they conceive of climate change, and how they
evaluate it in relation to their other concerns, notably economic
and political ones. It illustrates that local vulnerability and
adaptive capacity are to a large degree a result of international
and national governance, that much of the adaptive capacity for
local areas lies at higher, even international, levels (which the
local level has limited or no influence on) and that not even a
"traditional" practice such as indigenous reindeer herding can be
understood outside of international market systems. Moreover, the
approach and research results include features that could be
broadly generalized to other geographic areas or sectors
characterized by renewable natural resource use. The book
constitutes highly informative reading for professionals, academics
and students concerned with the human dimensions of global
environmental change, environmental governance and natural resource
management.
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