Freshwater vulnerabilities and resilience on the Seward Peninsula: Integrating multiple dimensions of landscape change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-270

  Busey, Robert ^b   Hinzman, Larry ^b   White, Dan ^c  

^a Na'ia)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Landscape change; Mapping; Resilience; Social ecological systems; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MINING; PERMAFROST; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; FISH RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44149110076     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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