Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic : an Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment.
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : E Carina H Keskitalo
- ناشر : London : Earthscan,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9781849770798
Description
Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Vulnerability Assessment in the Context of Multiple Levels and Impacts; Chapter 1: Structuring the Conceptions of Change; Chapter 2: A Methodology for Vulnerability Assessment; Chapter 3: Perceptions of Change, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity among Forest Industry Stakeholders in Northern Sweden and Finland; Chapter 4: Perceptions of Change, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity among Reindeer Herding Stakeholders in Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. Chapter 5: Perceptions of Change, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity among Fishing Stakeholders in Northernmost NorwayChapter 6: Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political and economic governance systems are crucial in shaping a community?s capacity to adapt to climate change these trends are seldom included in assessments. This book addresses this shortcoming by developing a framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment in?multiple impact? studies (of climate change and globalization) and applying this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use. The book.
