Due to the small size of the community in question, while the data has been anonymised it is possible that participants could still be identified from their statements were transcripts to be made freely available, and this information could be considered sensitive. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: There are both ethical restrictions on the sharing of the dataset used in this paper. Received: MaAccepted: SeptemPublished: September 29, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Naylor et al. PLoS ONE 16(9):Įditor: Andrea Belgrano, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment, University of Gothenburg, SWEDEN Instead, factors relating to economics (particularly financial capital and the wage-based economy), social networks, and institutions are found to have a greater influence, either as standalone factors with cascading effects or when acting synchronously to augment the impacts of environmental change.Ĭitation: Naylor AW, Ford JD, Pearce T, Fawcett D, Clark D, van Alstine J (2021) Monitoring the dynamic vulnerability of an Arctic subsistence food system to climate change: The case of Ulukhaktok, NT. However, climate change impacts are not necessarily the most salient issues affecting harvesting on a day-to-day basis.

Our results demonstrate that climate change has considerable potential to affect harvesting activities, particularly when its impacts manifest as anomalous/extreme events. GPS monitoring and participatory mapping sessions were used to document 23,996km of trails ( n = 409), with conversational bi-weekly semi-structured interviews and secondary instrumental weather data used to contextualise climate change within a nexus of other socioeconomic, cultural, and political stressors that also affect harvesting. In the community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, we followed 10 hunters over a 2-year period, asking them to document their harvesting activities and discuss their lived experience of harvesting under changing environmental and societal conditions. This paper draws upon complex adaptive systems thinking to develop an approach for capturing, understanding, and monitoring climate vulnerability in a case study from northern Canada, focusing on Inuit food systems. Vulnerability to climate change is highly dynamic, varying between and within communities over different timescales.

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