Community Adaptation and Vulnerability In Arctic Regions (CAVIAR) [Canada]

This project represents the Canadian component of the international IPY CAVIAR consortium. The research is designed to systematically assess the vulnerability of communities across the circumpolar north to changing environmental conditions, including climate change, and to identify opportunities to enhance the adaptive capacities of communities to sustain their natural resources, livelihoods and well-being. The project involves case studies, using a common methodology, to document exposures a nd adaptive strategies to deal with changing conditions. Exposures are identified by the local communities themselves, contributing to the development of community involvement in research. The research integrates natural science, social science and traditional knowledge, and is undertaken in collaboration with northern community members (through consultations and employing community members, often youth, as research assistants). Ethnographic fieldwork includes community-based research via interviews, focus groups, and participatory observation, as well as feedback visits for confirmation of findings and local dissemination. CAVIAR primarily collects qualitative data sets (interview and focus group recordings, which are subsequently transcribed). Research participants are northerners speaking to exposure-sensitivities and adaptive strategies in northern communities, and range from youth to elders. Quantitative data include detailed weekly hunting land use data in GPS format for hunters in Iqalu it (on-going) and georeferenced surficial geology polygons, sediment samples, landscape hazard examples, infrastructure foundation types and photographs of surficial sediment classes and landscape hazards in Clyde River. Within Canada, CAVIAR is connected to three ArcticNet NCE projects: \"Adaptation in a Changing Arctic: Ecosystem Services, Communities and Policy\", \"Instability of Coastal Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions\" and \"Understanding and Responding to the Effects of Climate Change and Modernization in Nunatsiavut\". CAVIAR Canada is also linked with a SSHRC Northern Communities Grant (\"Feeding the family during times of change\"), Health Canada's Climate Change and Health Adaptation Pro gram, the Northern Climate ExChange's Yukon Community Adaptation project, and a SSHRC Northern Communities Grant (C-TAC, \"Climate Change and Tourism Change in Northern Communities: A Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment\").本项目为国际IPY（国际极地年，International Polar Year）CAVIAR联盟的加拿大分支。本研究旨在系统评估环北极地区各社区在包括气候变化在内的环境变化面前的脆弱性，并识别提升社区适应能力的路径，以维系其自然资源、生计与福祉。 本项目采用统一研究方法开展案例研究，以记录社区应对环境变化时的暴露风险与适应策略。暴露风险由当地社区自行识别，这有助于推动社区参与研究工作。 本研究融合自然科学、社会科学与传统知识，并与北极社区成员合作开展：通过咨询流程聘用社区成员（多为青年）担任研究助理。民族志田野工作涵盖基于社区的研究，包括访谈、焦点小组讨论与参与式观察，同时还会开展反馈走访，以确认研究发现并在当地进行成果传播。 CAVIAR主要采集定性数据集，包括后续会完成转录的访谈与焦点小组录音资料。研究参与者为北极地区居民，他们会分享北极社区的暴露风险敏感性与适应策略，涵盖青年至老年群体。 定量数据则包括：伊魁特（Iqaluit）地区猎人的每周详细GPS狩猎用地使用数据（项目仍在进行中）；克莱德河（Clyde River）地区的地理参考表层地质多边形数据、沉积物样本、景观灾害案例、基础设施基础类型，以及表层沉积物类别与景观灾害的影像资料。 在加拿大境内，CAVIAR与三项ArcticNet NCE（北极网络国家卓越中心，ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence）项目相关联："Adaptation in a Changing Arctic: Ecosystem Services, Communities and Policy"（《变化中的北极适应：生态系统服务、社区与政策》）、"Instability of Coastal Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions"（《北极社区与区域海岸景观不稳定性》）以及"Understanding and Responding to the Effects of Climate Change and Modernization in Nunatsiavut"（《努纳茨亚武特地区气候变化与现代化影响的认知与应对》）。 加拿大CAVIAR项目还与以下项目及资助存在关联：加拿大社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council）的《变革时期的家庭供养》北部社区资助项目、加拿大卫生部（Health Canada）气候变化与健康适应计划、北极气候交流（Northern Climate ExChange）的育空社区适应项目，以及另一项SSHRC北部社区资助项目（C-TAC："Climate Change and Tourism Change in Northern Communities: A Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment"，即《北极社区气候变化与旅游转型：脆弱性与韧性评估》）。