The earth is faster now : indigenous observations of Arctic environment change

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ISBN: 0972044906
Physical Description: print
xxvii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, 2002.

General Note:	"In cooperation with the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. These are things that are really happening: Inuit perpsectives on the evidence and impacts of climate change in Nunavut -- 2. Community contributions to ecological monitoring: knowledge co-production in the U.S.-Canada Arctic borderlands -- 3. We can't predict the weather like we used to: Inuvialuit observations of climate change, Sachs Harbour, Western Canadian Arctic -- 4. Coastal sea ice watch: private confessions of a convert to Indigenous knowledge -- 5. Watching ice and weather our way: some lessons from Yupik observations of sea ice and weather on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska -- 6. Nowadays it is not the same: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, climate and caribou in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Canada -- 7. Travelling with Fred George: the changing ways of Yup'ik star navigation in Akiachak, western Alaska -- 8. Climate change and health in Nunavik and Laborador: lessons from Inuit knowledge -- 9. Putting the human face on climate change through community workshops: Inuit knowledge, partnerships, and research -- 10. Epilogue: making sense of Arctic environmental change? -- Appendix: Snowchange 2002: Indigenous views on climate change: a circumpolar perspective.
Funding Information Note:	Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Arctic Social Sciences Program OPP-0101279