North By 2020 : Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (754 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. A Holistic Approach for a Changing North -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Transdisciplinary Collaboration in the Fourth International Polar Year: Connecting Studies of Arctic Change across the Sciences and the Arts -- 1.3 Scenarios as a Tool to Understand and Respond to Change -- 1.4 Contextualizing Alaska's Climate Change from Global to Local Scales: The Boreal Forest, People, and Wildfire -- 2. Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change, and Sustainability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Anchorage Declaration -- 2.3 My Place, My Identity -- 2.4 A Changing Sense of Place: Climate and Native Well-Being -- 2.5 Values of Nushagak Bay: Past, Present, and Future -- 2.6 Food Systems, Environmental Change, and CommunityNeeds in Rural Alaska -- 2.7 Indigenous Knowledge and Global Environmental Politics: Biodiversity, POPs, and Climate -- 2.8 Indigenous Contributions to Sustainability -- 2.9 Climate Change and Creative Expression -- 3. Alaska's Freshwater Resources -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Alaska Freshwater Policy Development since Statehood -- 3.3 The State of Water Science -- 3.4 The Role of Fresh Water in Alaska's Communities -- 3.5 Planning for Change -- 4. The Arctic Coastal Margin -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Physical Environment of Alaska's Coasts -- 4.3 Humans in the Coastal Zone of the Circumpolar North -- 4.4 Case 1: Newtok, the First Village in Alaska to Relocate Due to Climate Change -- 4.5 Case 2: Flood Waters, Politics, and Relocating Home: One Story of Shishmaref, Alaska -- 4.6 Case 3: Finding Ways to Move: The Challenges of Relocation in Kivalina, Northwest Alaska -- 4.7 Case 4: Current Situations and Future Possibilities: Issues of Coastal Erosion in Kaktovik, Alaska -- 4.8 Case Studies: Summary, Conclusions, and Prospects. 4.9 The Arctic Coastal System: An Interplay of Components Human, Industrial, and Natural -- 5. Management of Living Marine Resources -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Marine Fisheries off Alaska -- 5.3 Climate Change Brings Uncertain Future for Subarctic Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries -- 5.4 Conservation of Marine Mammals in Alaska: The Value of Policy Histories for Understanding Contemporary Change -- 5.5 Addressing Rural Livelihood and Community Well-Being in Alaska's Fisheries -- 5.6 Tracking Changes in Coastal-Community Subsistence to Improve Understanding of Arctic Climate Change -- 6. Marine Infrastructure and Transportation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Historical Perspective on the United States Coast Guard Presence in the Arctic -- 6.3 The Arctic: A Growing Search-and-Rescue Challenge -- 6.4 Traffic Management in the Bering Strait -- 6.5 The Effect of Unregulated Ship Emissions on Aerosol and Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations in Southwestern Alaska -- 6.6 Strengthening Institutions for Stakeholder Involvement and Ecosystem-Based Management in the US Arctic Offshore -- 6.7 Futures of Arctic Marine Transport 2030: An Explorative Scenario Approach -- 7. Coastal and Offshore Oil and Gas Development:Balancing Interests and Reducing Risks Through Collaboration and Information Exchange -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Analysis of the Arctic Council Oil and Gas Assessment, Oil and Gas Guidelines, and the Prospective Role of the Arctic Council -- 7.3 The Need for International Cooperation in Offshore Oiland Gas -- 7.4 Technological Frontiers for Offshore Oil and Gas -- 7.5 The Role of Local and Indigenous Knowledge in Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Development, Environmental Hazard Mitigation, and Emergency Response -- 7.6 Local Perspectives on the Future of Offshore Oil and Gas in Northern Alaska -- 8. Expressions of Climate Change in the Arts -- 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Global Warming and Art -- 8.3 Dry Ice: Artists and the Landscape -- 8.4 Social Climate Change of Alutiiq Dance Forms -- 8.5 Seeing Change: A Filmmaker's Approach to Climate Change -- 8.6 The Syntax of Snow: Musical Ecoacoustics of a Changing Arctic -- 8.7 Climate Change as Telematic Art -- 8.8 A Long-View Perspective on Collaborative Filmmaking -- 9. Planning for Northern Futures -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Authors and Coauthors -- Index.