Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic

<p>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 inmultiple impact studies (of climate change and globalization) and applying this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use.</p> <p>The book draws upon case studies of forestry and fishing - two of the largest sectors that rely on renewable natural resources - and reindeer herding in the European North. The study represents a bottom-up view originating with the stakeholders themselves of the degree to which stakeholders find adaptation to climate change possible and how they evaluate it in relation to their other concerns notably economic and political ones. Moreover the approach and research results include features that could be broadly generalized to other geographic areas or sectors characterized by renewable natural resource use.</p>