Scoping the risks associated with accelerated coastal permafrost thaw : lessons from Bykovsky (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation) and Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada)

Jean-Paul Vanderlinden (1) , Paul Overduin (2) , Donald L. Forbes (3) , Vyacheslav Shadrin (4) , Natalia Doloisio (1)

1 CEARC - Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat
2 Alfred Wegener Institute [Potsdam]
3 Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
4 Institute of Humanities and Northern Indigenous Peoples, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation

1. Permafrost thaw generates risks for Arctic communities that are broad and cross-cutting. 2. Current models of risk under climate change may not be able to address such categories of risk. 3. We propose an initial scoping of existing risk models using field observations.

Domains: Global Changes

Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Paul Overduin, Donald L. Forbes, Vyacheslav Shadrin, Natalia Doloisio. Scoping the risks associated with accelerated coastal permafrost thaw : lessons from Bykovsky (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation) and Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories, Canada). European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Apr 2018, Vienne, Austria. ⟨hal-01888064⟩