Human Ecology And Climatic Change: People And Resources In The Far North [Paperback]

The Far North, a land of extreme weather and intense beauty, is the only region of North America whose ecosystems have remained reasonably intact. Humans are newcomers there and nature predominates. As is widely known, recent changes in the Earth's atmosphere have the potential to create rapid climatic shifts in our life-time and well into the future. These changes, a product of southern industrial society, will have the greatest impact on ecosystems at northern latitudes, which until now have remained largely undisturbed. In this fragile balance, as terrestrial and aquatic habitats change, animal and human populations will be irrevocably altered.Preface, Foreword, Contributors, List of Figures and Tables, PART I CLIMATE AND HUMAN POPULATIONS  A DYNAMIC BALANCE, 1. Human ecology and climate change at northern latitudes, 2. Potential climate change in northern North America, 3. Demography and socioeconomics of northern North America: Current status and impacts of climate change, PART II PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, 4. Modeling potential impacts of climate change on northern landscapes, 5. Climate and ecological relationships in northern latitude ecosystems, 6. Responses of Arctic ungulates to climate change, 7. Effects of climate change on marine mammals in the Far North, 8. Response of anadromous fish to climate change in the North Pacific, PART III HUMAN POPULATIONS AND NATURAL RESOURCES: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES, 9. Increments, ranges, and thresholds: Human population responses to climate change in northern Alaska, 10. Resource use in rural Alaskan communities, 11. Warming the Arctic: Environmentalism and Canadian Inuit, PART IV NATURAL RESOURCES AND HUMAN INSTITUTIONS IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT, 12. Global warming and conflict management: Resident native peoples and protected areas, 13. Comanagement of natural resources: Some aspects of the Canadian experience, 14. Common property resource management and northern protected areas, 15. Inuit indil“µ