Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area

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Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area

AMAP 2017 Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area

Citation AMAP, 2017. Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Barents Area. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. xiv + 267pp ISBN –13 978-82-7971-102-5 © Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 2017 Published by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway. (www.amap.no) Ordering This report can be ordered from the AMAP Secretariat, Gaustadalléen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway This report is also published as electronic documents, available from the AMAP website at www.amap.no Production Production management Julia Tchernova and Jon L. Fuglestad (AMAP Secretariat) Editing Carolyn Symon (carolyn.symon@btinternet.com) Technical production Burnthebook, United Kingdom (www.burnthebook.co.uk) Jane White and Simon Duckworth (Burnthebook) Cover photograph Mountains of Longyearbyen at sunset, Svalbard ginger_polina_bublik/Shutterstock.com Printing Narayana Press, Gylling, DK-8300 Odder, Denmark (www.narayanapress.dk)

AMAPWorking Group (during period of preparation of this assessment) Martin Forsius (Chair, Finland), Morten Olsen (Vice-Chair, Denmark), Sarah Kalhok (Canada), Mikala Klint (Denmark), Outi Mähönen (Finland),Helgi Jensson (Iceland),Marianne Kroglund (Vice-Chair,Norway), Tove Lundeberg (Sweden),Yuri Tsaturov (Vice-Chair, Russia), J.Michael Kuperberg (United States), Eva Krummel (Inuit Circumpolar Council), Jannie Staffansson (Saami Council), Bob van Dijken (Arctic Athabaskan Council) AMAP Secretariat Lars-Otto Reiersen, SimonWilson, Jon L. Fuglestad, Julia Tchernova, Jan-Rene Larsen, Janet Pawlak, Inger Utne Arctic Council Member States and Permanent Participants of the Council Canada, Kingdom of Denmark,Denmark/Greenland/Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland,Norway, Russia, Sweden,United States,Aleut International Association (AIA), Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC), Gwitch’in Council International (GCI), Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), Saami Council Coordinating Lead Authors (see chapters for complete author overview) Marianne Kroglund, Tove Lundeberg, Monica Tennberg, Anna Degteva, Helene Amundsen, Peter Arbo, Ingrid Bay-Larsen, Rasmus Benestad, Philip Burgess,Marcus Carson,Wenche Eide, Grete Kaare Hovelsrud,Vladimir Ivanov, E. Carina H. Keskitalo, Kit Kovacs, SveinMathiesen,Annika E. Nilsson,Anders Oskal, Glen Peters,Martin Sommerkorn,Minna Turunen, Seija Tuulentie