West Greenland's Cod-to-Shrimp Transition: Local Dimensions of Climatic Change

Arctic

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-282

  Hamilton, Lawrence C ^a   Brown, Benjamin C ^a   Rasmussen, Rasmus Ole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Elias Kleist; Fisheries; Great Salinity Anomaly; Greenland; Human dimensions; North Atlantic Oscillation; Paamiut; Sisimiut; Unaami

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISHING INDUSTRY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0142260559     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic623     Document Type: Article

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