Examining Values and Resilience: Climate Change, SAR and Northern Communities
摘要
Remote Arctic communities, many with majority Indigenous populations, rely on traditional knowledge of the land passed down through generations to navigate safe travels. Even now when also informed by modern meteorological or geolocating technologies, climate change challenges the reliability of surface conditions. While the state has responsibility within legal frameworks for the search and rescue of persons in distress, the new climate conditions shift not only the material landscape but also the legal landscape of responsibility for action. This chapter explores how the alignment of certain core values and search and rescue practices among often remote Arctic communities is central to the success of resilience and adaptive capacity-building measures, necessitated even further by a rapidly warming Arctic.