Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking
Arctic Climate Change: North American Actors in Circumpolar Knowledge Production and Policymaking
This chapter examines the role of the Arctic in North American climate change debate policymaking. It places special focus on the role of the Arctic Council in connecting scientific and policy concerns, and in emphasizing the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples. The chapter then discusses the significant characteristics of scientific assessments to inform the following examination of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), and argues that the ACIA's focus on indigenous people was the result of the prevalent norms and structures of regional cooperation under the arctic council. This focus also helped ACIA to become legitimate, credible, and salient among the broad set of actors in the international political arena, in a dynamic that was closely linked to Canadian and U.S. climate change politics.
Keywords: ACIA, Arctic Council, indigenous people, climate change
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