The Ivalo River and its People: There Have Always Been Floods – What Is Different Now?

Tennberg, Monica; Vuojala-Magga, Terhi; Turunen, Minna

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9174-1_9

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“…2.8) Loeng et al 2005). A sustained increase in average ocean temperatures in the Barents Sea region will likely lead to major reductions in the already reduced seasonal ice cover (Overland and Wang 2007) and may result in a shift in the location of the Polar Front, where warmer Atlantic and colder Arctic waters meet, to the north and east of its present location (Ellingsen et al 2009).…”

Section: Climate Projections and Local Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Coastal fishers in our case areas are adapted to major interannual, decadal, and multi-decadal changes in ocean temperatures and their corresponding effects on fish stocks. For example, the average decadal variation in ocean temperature in the eastern Barents Sea during the 20th century was 1.5 C (Sundby and Nakken 2008), well within the range of the 1-2 C warming that is projected for the entire Barents Sea by 2070 under a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels (Loeng et al 2005). It is perhaps not surprising then that fishers do not consider themselves to be particularly vulnerable to climate change.…”

Section: Changes In Distribution and Abundance Of Commercially Importmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Adaptation in Fisheries and Municipalities: Three Communities in Northern Norway

Hovelsrud

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Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions

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In this chapter we focus on how changing societal and climatic conditions have consequences for current and future vulnerability and adaptation in three municipalities in Northern Norway: Hammerfest and Lebesby, in Finnmark County, and Vestva˚gøy in the Lofoten Islands, Nordland County. Through local consultations and discussions, fisheries and municipal planning were identified as having particular relevance in the case communities. Climate change is not perceived to be a major challenge locally, nevertheless, when climate projections are considered alongside locally defined and relevant socio-economic and climatic concerns that are particular to local contexts, multiple and interrelated factors emerge that are likely to shape future vulnerability. Focussing on coastal fisheries and municipal planning as two major arenas for change, we find that adaptation takes place along a number of dimensions and at several societal levels. Adaptive strategies occur in response to changing socio-economic conditions, to variable weather and environmental conditions, or to a combination of both. There are three interlinked factors that our empirical findings show are currently of concern for coastal fisheries: changes in bio-physical conditions (ocean temperature and fish distribution and behaviour); fisheries management and regulations (vessel size, species, quotas) and societal conditions (outmigration, market factors and transfer of knowledge). The interlinkages between these changes, and community responses to them, have first and foremost been captured and understood through local involvement in our research.

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Section: Climate Projections and Local Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Changes In Distribution and Abundance Of Commercially Importmentioning

confidence: 97%