Sökning: "Arctic Strategies"

Visar resultat 21 - 24 av 24 uppsatser innehållade orden Arctic Strategies.

  1. 21. Knowledge and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation in the Infrastructure Sector in Nunavut, Canada

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Författare :Timothy Giger; Kelly Ramsauer; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Nunavut; Arctic; Climate Change Adaptation; Infrastructure; Knowledge; Implementation; Policy; Climate-Sensitive Infrastructure; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The Arctic is at the forefront of climate change and is considered to be the most at risk, warming at twice the rate of the global annual average. The environment and its inhabitants are and will be subjected to deep transformational shifts, with changes in temperature and climate having potentially worldwide repercussions. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Arctic strategies of sub-national regions : Why and how sub-national regions of Northern Finland and Sweden mobilize as Arctic stakeholders

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Kristoffer Eliasson; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Arctic; governance; Sweden; Finland; sub-national; regional; mobilize; stakeholder;

    Sammanfattning : The stakes are high in the Arctic region in terms of economic opportunities, environmental challenges and political interests, not least considering the fact that stakeholders include the most powerful nations in the world. This study departs from the notion that sub-national levels of government, in areas most affected by developments in the Arctic; risk being put in the background in favor of high-level and high-tension politics. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Arctic States' Strategies - How to Defend the Arctic Market

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Simon Berg; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Defence strategies; Arctic Strategies; Arctic States; The Arctic; Deterrence; Shakeout; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : To defend a market, the acting firms need defence strategies. The eight Arctic States have all published their own national strategic document for the Arctic region. In the Strategies they describe how they will act in this Arctic market. The Arctic is an area undergoing a change. LÄS MER

  5. 24. "Walking in two worlds and not doing too well in either" : investigating vulnerability and climate change in Nunavut, Canada

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Författare :Kathleen Whitfield; [2012]
    Nyckelord :inuit traditional knowledge; food security; ethnography; Arctic climate impacts; adaptive capacity; sustainability science; inuit communities; hunting; vulnerability scoping diagram; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Arctic communities are currently experiencing the effects of climate change. This paper contributes to a growing body of vulnerability and adaptation research in the Arctic. This case study provides an assessment of current vulnerabilities and offers insight into how climate change is experienced in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. LÄS MER