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dc.contributor.authorVan Voorst, Roanne
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-15T14:58:32Z
dc.date.available2013-08-15T14:58:32Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationVan Voorst, R. 2009. “I work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” - Social impacts of climate changes: a Greenlandic case study. Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2(3):235-254 [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/8847]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1998-1421
dc.identifier.issn2072-845X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/8879
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding human adaptation to climate changes is one of the most important research issues within the area of global environmental change, accounting for the fact that people worldwide are currently adapting to their changing environment (Adger and Kelly 2000: 253; Smit et al. 2008). The Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethnographic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant observation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. The empirical findings as presented in this paper suggest that an exclusive and gender-neutral focus of policy makers on economic aspects of adaptation to climate changes may increase socio-economic inequality as well as male domestic violence over women. Social research can help to identify such chains of reactions resulting from climate changes and related policies, by focusing on individual adaptation strategies of male and female actors in vulnerable societies.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v2i3.29
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSIS OpenJournalsen_US
dc.subjectClimate changes
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subjectSocial inequalit
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.title“I work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” - Social impacts of climate changes: a Greenlandic case studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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