Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment

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(2009), "Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 18 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2009.07318cae.016

Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment

Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment

Article Type: Book reviews From: Disaster Prevention and Management, Volume 18, Issue 3

E. Carina H. Keskitalo,Earthscan,London,www.earthscan.co.uk2008,254 pp.,ISBN 978-1-84407-528-7,$101 (hard cover)

The effects of global climate change will be especially marked in northern latitudes. This book looks at the potential impacts of climate change on forestry, herding, and fishing practices among native populations in northern Scandinavia. The author interviewed people whose livelihood was intrinsically tied into these occupations to draw his conclusions.

“This relatively open-ended design is intended to make possible a stakeholder assessment of vulnerability, of the communities’ socio-economically and politically delimited adaptive capacity of the adaptations that are being or might be undertaken, and if climate change impacts figure in people’s priorities”, Keskitalo writes.

She concludes climate change will have the most profound impacts on reindeer herders. Forestry and fishing – which are more heavily regulated – may not experience as many negative outcomes.

(Extracted from Natural Hazards Observer, March 2009.)