气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The rapidly changing Arctic and its societal implications

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DOI	10.1002/wcc.735
	The rapidly changing Arctic and its societal implications
	Ford J.D.; Pearce T.; Canosa I.V.; Harper S.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1757-7780
卷号	12 期号:6
英文摘要	The Arctic is undergoing rapid climate change and is projected to experience the most warming this century of any world region. We review the societal aspects of these current and projected changes. Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge holders living in communities across the Arctic have detected unprecedented increases in temperature, altered precipitation regimes, and changing weather patterns, documenting impacts on terrestrial and marine environments. These local observations situate climate change as one of multiple interacting stressors. Arctic societies have exhibited resilience to climate change, but vulnerabilities are emerging at the nexus of changing environmental conditions and socioeconomic pressures. Infrastructure is highly susceptible to permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, and sea level rise, compounded by the age of infrastructure, maintenance challenges, and cost of adapting. Livelihoods and cultural activities linked to subsistence harvesting have been affected by changes to wildlife, with coping mechanisms undermined by long-term processes of land dispossession and landscape fragmentation. Reduced sea ice coverage and changing ice dynamics are creating opportunities for enhanced shipping, oil and gas production, and deep-water fisheries. Legal, infrastructural, economic, and climatic challenges are expected to constrain such developments, with concerns over the distribution of potential benefits. Adaptation is already taking place in some sectors and regions, with efforts directly targeting climate impacts and also addressing underlying determinants of vulnerability. Barriers and limits to adapting are evident. Research that develops projections of future climate impacts is advancing, but studies examining the implications of such changes for communities or economies remain in their infancy. This article is categorized under: Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives > Regional Reviews. © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
关键词	Arctic circumpolar climate change communities cumulative effects human dimension Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge societal impacts
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Economics; Gas industry; Marine engineering; Petroleum industry; Sea ice; Sea level; Disciplinary perspective; Environmental conditions; Indigenous knowledge; Landscape fragmentation; Oil and gas production; Precipitation regimes; Societal implications; Subsistence harvesting; Climate change; circumpolar current; climate change; climate effect; community response; ecosystem resilience; environmental conditions; indigenous knowledge; livelihood; local adaptation; traditional knowledge; vulnerability; Arctic
来源期刊	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249614
作者单位	Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; Department of Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada; School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ford J.D.,Pearce T.,Canosa I.V.,et al. The rapidly changing Arctic and its societal implications[J],2021,12(6).
APA	Ford J.D.,Pearce T.,Canosa I.V.,&Harper S..(2021).The rapidly changing Arctic and its societal implications.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,12(6).
MLA	Ford J.D.,et al."The rapidly changing Arctic and its societal implications".Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 12.6(2021).