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Arctic Resilience: Adaptive Networks Of Self-Sufficiency, Jingjing Cui Jun 2023

Arctic Resilience: Adaptive Networks Of Self-Sufficiency, Jingjing Cui

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As the impacts of climate change reverberate across the globe, there is an increasing focus on communities already grappling with high environmental stress, limited resources, isolation, and economic challenges. Among these communities, the Arctic region stands out not for its population size, but for the threat posed to their traditional ways of life by the melting polar icecap, rising seas, changing ecology, and shifting migration patterns of vital wildlife. Many communities are living on shorelines being lost to the sea, having been moved there decades earlier by government and oil corporation dictates. Now facing impending relocation again, these communities have …