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Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain
Permafrost in northern Canada is susceptible to degradation due to rapid climate change, with hazard mapping promoted as an important activity to guide sustainable community adaptation and planning. This paper presents a framework for evaluating permafrost mapping exercises designed to inform climat...
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author | Flynn, Melanie Ford, James D. Labbé, Jolène Schrott, Lothar Tagalik, Shirley |
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description | Permafrost in northern Canada is susceptible to degradation due to rapid climate change, with hazard mapping promoted as an important activity to guide sustainable community adaptation and planning. This paper presents a framework for evaluating permafrost mapping exercises designed to inform climate change adaptation actions. We apply the framework using a case study of the Incorporating Climate Change into Land Development—Terrain Analysis project (ICCiLD). ICCiLD is a hazard mapping project utilizing interferometric synthetic aperture radar to monitor ground disturbance and categorize land development suitability in seven communities in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. We looked at one of the communities, Arviat, as our case study. We examined technical data and drew upon semi-structured interviews (n = 19) with map creators and users. We found ICCiLD added new and relevant information for community planning, increased awareness of the risks posed by permafrost thaw and built stakeholder relations. Strong coordination and high public consciousness of local climate impacts emerged as key factors underpinning project success. Nevertheless, in the case of Arviat, the effectiveness of the hazard maps in influencing land-use planning was constrained by communication challenges between project creators and end-users. These challenges included limited community access to the data and uncertainty surrounding how to operationalize the map suitability classifications. Broader climate change adaptation challenges included the presence of other more immediate community planning priorities and a limited ability to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into a technical mapping project. The lessons from this evaluation provide insight for the development of mapping-based adaptations across Arctic regions. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11625-018-0614-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-65635242019-06-28 Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain Flynn, Melanie Ford, James D. Labbé, Jolène Schrott, Lothar Tagalik, Shirley Sustain Sci Original Article Permafrost in northern Canada is susceptible to degradation due to rapid climate change, with hazard mapping promoted as an important activity to guide sustainable community adaptation and planning. This paper presents a framework for evaluating permafrost mapping exercises designed to inform climate change adaptation actions. We apply the framework using a case study of the Incorporating Climate Change into Land Development—Terrain Analysis project (ICCiLD). ICCiLD is a hazard mapping project utilizing interferometric synthetic aperture radar to monitor ground disturbance and categorize land development suitability in seven communities in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. We looked at one of the communities, Arviat, as our case study. We examined technical data and drew upon semi-structured interviews (n = 19) with map creators and users. We found ICCiLD added new and relevant information for community planning, increased awareness of the risks posed by permafrost thaw and built stakeholder relations. Strong coordination and high public consciousness of local climate impacts emerged as key factors underpinning project success. Nevertheless, in the case of Arviat, the effectiveness of the hazard maps in influencing land-use planning was constrained by communication challenges between project creators and end-users. These challenges included limited community access to the data and uncertainty surrounding how to operationalize the map suitability classifications. Broader climate change adaptation challenges included the presence of other more immediate community planning priorities and a limited ability to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into a technical mapping project. The lessons from this evaluation provide insight for the development of mapping-based adaptations across Arctic regions. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s11625-018-0614-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Japan 2018-08-04 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6563524/ /pubmed/31258813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0614-x Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Flynn, Melanie Ford, James D. Labbé, Jolène Schrott, Lothar Tagalik, Shirley Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title | Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title_full | Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title_fullStr | Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title_short | Evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
title_sort | evaluating the effectiveness of hazard mapping as climate change adaptation for community planning in degrading permafrost terrain |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6563524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31258813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0614-x |
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