Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13052651
Keywords
climate change; risks; permafrost; adaptation; Arctic; human exposure
Funding
- Nunataryuk project - European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme [773421]
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Thawing permafrost poses significant risks to Arctic coastal communities, emphasizing the importance of dual dimensions of risk and risk perception. Collaboration across disciplines and co-production of risk management with local communities is crucial for identifying and addressing risks effectively.
Thawing permafrost creates risks to the environment, economy and culture in Arctic coastal communities. Identification of these risks and the inclusion of the societal context and the relevant stakeholder involvement is crucial in risk management and for future sustainability, yet the dual dimensions of risk and risk perception is often ignored in conceptual risk frameworks. In this paper we present a risk framework for Arctic coastal communities. Our framework builds on the notion of the dual dimensions of risk, as both physically and socially constructed, and it places risk perception and the coproduction of risk management with local stakeholders as central components into the model. Central to our framework is the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration. A conceptual model and processual framework with a description of successive steps is developed to facilitate the identification of risks of thawing permafrost in a collaboration between local communities and scientists. Our conceptual framework motivates coproduction of risk management with locals in the identification of these risks from permafrost thaw and the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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