Human Ecology And Climatic Change-People And Resources In The Far North

Preface, Foreword, Contributors, List of Figures and Tables, PART I CLIMATE AND HUMAN POPULATIONS — A DYNAMIC BALANCE, 1. Human ecology and climate change at northern latitudes, 2. Potential climate change in northern North America, 3. Demography and socioeconomics of northern North America: Current status and impacts of climate change, PART II PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, 4. Modeling potential impacts of climate change on northern landscapes, 5. Climate and ecological relationships in northern latitude ecosystems, 6. Responses of Arctic ungulates to climate change, 7. Effects of climate change on marine mammals in the Far North, 8. Response of anadromous fish to climate change in the North Pacific, PART III HUMAN POPULATIONS AND NATURAL RESOURCES: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES, 9. Increments, ranges, and thresholds: Human population responses to climate change in northern Alaska, 10. Resource use in rural Alaskan communities, 11. Warming the Arctic: Environmentalism and Canadian Inuit, PART IV NATURAL RESOURCES AND HUMAN INSTITUTIONS IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT, 12. Global warming and conflict management: Resident native peoples and protected areas, 13. Comanagement of natural resources: Some aspects of the Canadian experience, 14. Common property resource management and northern protected areas, 15. Inuit indigenous knowledge and science in the Arctic, 16. Understanding northern environments and human populations through cooperative research: A case study in Beringia, 17. Biology, politics, and culture in the management of subsistence hunting and fishing: An Alaskan case history, 18. Biosphere reserves: A flexible framework for regional cooperation in an era of change, PART V ESSAYS: CONFLICT IN SOCIAL VALUES, 19. Global warming, protected areas, and the right to live off the land, 20. Preserving environmental values in parks and protected areas, PART VI SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS, 21. An interdisciplinary assessment of climate change on northern ecosystems: The Mackenzie Basin Impact Study, 22. An action plan for an uncertain future in the Far North, Index