FROM SCIENCE TO POLICY IN THE EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC
An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization

Chief Editors: Trevor Bell and Tanya Brown

Table of Contents
Foreword 5
Preface 6
Introduction 8

SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Recent and future climate trends 10
Key findings and recommendations 12
Knowledge gaps 22

PART I REGIONAL SETTING
CHAPTER 1 Regional geography 27

PART II UNDERSTANDING CHANGE:
DRIVERS, TRENDS, UNCERTAINTIES
CHAPTER 2 Climate variability 55
CHAPTER 3 Glaciers and ice shelves 95
CHAPTER 4 Permafrost 119
CHAPTER 5 Marine productivity 141
CHAPTER 6 Freshwater systems 161
CHAPTER 7 Terrestrial ecosystem 189
CHAPTER 8 Coastal dynamics 211
CHAPTER 9 Education 251

PART III RESPONDING TO CHANGE:
EFFECTS, OUTLOOK, ADAPTATION
CHAPTER 10 Contaminants 271
CHAPTER 11 Travel and hunting 305
CHAPTER 12 Human health 323
CHAPTER 13 Food security 343
CHAPTER 14 Water security 369
CHAPTER 15 Permafrost and infrastructure 393
CHAPTER 16 Managed wildlife species 417
CHAPTER 17 Marine biodiversity 459
CHAPTER 18 Commercial fisheries 475
CHAPTER 19 Mining and communities 495
CHAPTER 20 Shipping 509
CHAPTER 21 Cruise tourism 523
CHAPTER 22 High school education 539
CHAPTER 23 Postsecondary education 549

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Citation
Bell, T. and Brown, T.M. 2018. From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional
Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Moderization. 
The editors encourage citation of individual chapters by including the following:
Coordinating authors and contributors. 2018. Chapter # and title. In Bell, T. and Brown, T.M (Eds),
From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Artic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization. 
ArcticNet, Quebec City, 560 pp.
The report can be downloaded for free at www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca

abstracts - ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meetings 2019

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