| Titre : | AMBIO 35(4) - JUN 2006 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
Article
Robert W. Corell, Auteur
Climate change is being experienced particularly intensely in the Arctic. Arctic average temperature has risen at almost twice the rate as that of the rest of the world in the past few decades. Widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice and risi[...]
Article
Shari Gearheard, Auteur ;
Warren Matumeak, Auteur ;
Ilkoo Angutikjuaq, Auteur ;
James Maslanik, Auteur ;
Henry P. Huntington, Auteur ;
Joe Leavitt, Auteur ;
Darlene Matumeak Kagak, Auteur ;
Geela Tigullaraq, Auteur ;
Roger G. Barry, Auteur
The Arctic environment, including sea ice, is changing. The impacts of these changes to Inuit and Inupiat ways of life vary from place to place, yet there are common themes as well. The study reported here involved an exchange of hunters, Elders[...]
Article
F. Stuart Chapin, Auteur ;
Michael Hoel, Auteur ;
Steven R. Carpenter, Auteur ;
Jane Lubchenco, Auteur ;
Brian Walker, Auteur ;
Terry V. Callaghan, Auteur ;
Carl Folke, Auteur ;
Simon A. Levin, Auteur ;
Karl-Gran Maler, Auteur ;
Christer Nilsson, Auteur ;
Scott Barrett, Auteur ;
Fikret Berkes, Auteur ;
Anne-Sophie Crepin, Auteur ;
Kjell Danell, Auteur ;
Thomas Rosswall, Auteur ;
David Starrett, Auteur ;
Anastasios Xepapadeas, Auteur ;
Sergey A. Zimov, Auteur
Unprecedented global changes caused by human actions challenge society's ability to sustain the desirable features of our planet. This requires proactive management of change to foster both resilience (sustaining those attributes that are import[...]
Article
Margareta Johansson, Auteur ;
Torben R. Christensen, Auteur ;
H. Jonas Akerman, Auteur ;
Terry V. Callaghan, Auteur
In a warming climate, permafrost is likely to be significantly reduced and eventually disappear from the sub-Arctic region. This will affect people at a range of scales, from locally by slumping of buildings and roads to globally as melting of p[...]
Article
Rolph Payet, Auteur ;
Wills Agricole, Auteur
The Seychelles is a small island state in the western Indian Ocean that is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This vulnerability led the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 to express concern over the potential eco[...]
Article
Olli Varis, Auteur
The Arctic zone is full of controversies, unknowns, contrasts, and challenges. The following example is enlightening. Saudi Arabia is a country that has been considered to have almost unlimited possibilities because of its enormous oil earnings.[...]
Article
Oleg Anisimov, Auteur ;
Svetlana Reneva, Auteur
The permafrost regions occupy about 25% of the Northern Hemisphere's terrestrial surface, and more than 60% of that of Russia. Warming, thawing, and degradation of permafrost have been observed in many locations in recent decades and are likely [...]
Article
David W. Schindler, Auteur ;
John P. Smol, Auteur
Despite their generally isolated geographic locations, the freshwaters of the north are subjected to a wide spectrum of environmental stressors. High-latitude regions are especially sensitive to the effects of recent climatic warming, which have[...]
Article
Will Steffen, Auteur
Human activities over the past few centuries have profoundly changed the functioning of the earth system as a whole. These changes are particularly evident in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, where environmental change has been pro[...]
