Adapting to the impacts of climate change on food security among inuit in the Western Canadian Arctic

EcoHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-373

  Wesche, Sonia D ^a,b   Chan, Hing Man ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b National Aboriginal Health Organization   (Canada)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change impacts; community health; food security; Inuit; Inuit nutrition; nutritional health; scale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; CATERING SERVICE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ESKIMO; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; WILD ANIMAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; INUITS; NUTRITIVE VALUE;

EID: 80051595610     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-010-0344-8     Document Type: Article

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