Open AccessClimate Change and Mental Health: A Snapshot of Arctic Indigenous People’s Resiliency and Suffering as the World Transforms
Author(s) -
Caitlyn Madden
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.16.3.2
Subject(s) - circumpolar star , indigenous , arctic , climate change , the arctic , mental health , geography , snapshot (computer storage) , global warming , climatology , psychology , oceanography , ecology , computer science , psychotherapist , biology , geology , operating system
For years, the Arctic region, home to 4 million people, ten percent of whom are indigenous, has provided an example of rapidly changing climate patterns impinging on human ability to adapt to the change (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland). The Circumpolar region has experienced warming at a rate roughly two to three times greater than …