Climate change, adaptive capacity and policy direction in the Canadian North: Can we learn anything from the collapse of the east coast cod fishery?

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Budreau D. [1 ]
McBean G. [2 ]
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[1] Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.
[2] Departments of Geography and Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6G 2M1
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Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Atlantic Canada; Climate change; Environmental change; Impacts; Northern Canada; Proactive policy; Reactive policy;
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10.1007/s11027-006-9053-6
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Scientific evidence gathered over the past five years suggests that northern Canada and the Arctic have undergone, and are undergoing, formidable environmental changes linked to global climate change. Environmental change in the north is expected to persist and intensify over the course of the next century. When large-scale environmental changes take place, they inevitably affect people, especially when the cultures and livelihoods of those people depend on their relationship with the environment. Managing the local impacts of these changes is a matter of adaptation. This paper discusses some of the policy implications of adaptation - government interventions aiming to build communities' and regions' capacities to adapt to environmental changes. Three arguments for adaptive capacity building interventions in the north are discussed, and these arguments are augmented by a comparative review of government reactions to the collapse of the cod fishery in Atlantic Canada. Reactive and proactive policy approaches are discussed, and it is suggested from the comparison that proactive approaches to intervention are desirable for building adaptive capacity. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
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页码:1305 / 1320
页数:15
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