Arctic Crashes

People and Animals in the Changing North

Igor Krupnik (Igor Krupnik), Aron L. Crowell (Aron L. Crowell)

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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
19 May 2020

The natural world, country life & pets

An exploration on how environmental factors like climate change and sea-ice levels affect Arctic species and can even lead to ""crashes"" in their populations.

This volume is the key outcome of the Arctic Crashes project, ""Arctic People and Animal Crashes- Human, Climate and Habitat Agency in the Anthropocene."" This project was implemented during 2014-2016 by a team of scholars at the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center in collaboration with their colleagues and indigenous partners from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Greenland, and the Netherlands, and was supported by the Smithsonian Grand Challenges Consortia grant. The Arctic Crashes team introduced a new vision to explore human-animal-climate interactions, including rapid animal declines (""crashes"") in the North that-unlike earlier top-down models that tied changes in species' abundance and ranges to alternating warmer and cooler, or high ice/low sea-ice regimes across the polar zone-analyzed such relations primarily at regional and local scale. This approach is closer to the Arctic peoples' traditional view that animals, like people, live in ""tribes"" and they could ""come and go"" according to their relations with the local human societies. As Arctic climate changes and climate/sea-ice/ecotone boundaries shift, we increasingly observe diverse responses by people and animals to environmental stress. In some species we can also document the sustained effects of commercial overexploitation during the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, which varied across subpopulations. The emerging record may be best approached as a series of localized human-animal disequilibria (""crashes"") interpreted from different angles by population biologists, Arctic indigenous people, and anthropologists, rather than top-down climate-induced collapses. This new understanding also highlights varying rates of change-in the physical, animal, and human domains. Besides six keystone polar game species (the Pacific and Atlantic walrus, harbor seal, harp seal, bowhead whale, and caribou) the volume examines the status of polar bear and narwhal in the Canadian Arctic, Pribilof Island fur seal, and Atlantic cod in Greenland, presenting a diversity of historical, archaeological, evolutionary, and cultural/spiritual perspectives on Arctic ""crashes.""

Edited by: Igor Krupnik (Igor Krupnik), Aron L. Crowell (Aron L. Crowell)
Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Country of Publication: United States
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781944466343
ISBN 10: 1944466347
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 19 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Igor Krupnik is curator of Arctic and Northern Ethnology collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. His areas of expertise include the modern cultures, ecological knowledge, and cultural heritage of Arctic people, primarily in Alaska and Siberia; human ecology; and the impact of modern climate change on Arctic residents. He published and edited several books and collections, including three volumes on indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change and a collected volume on the history of Eskimology, Early Inuit Studies- Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s (2016). Aron L. Crowell is an Arctic/subarctic archaeologist and anthropologist whose research and publications have focused on the peoples of the Gulf of Alaska region, where he is currently leading an NSF-funded study of the human and environmental history of Yakutat Bay in partnership with the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe. Crowell is the Alaska director of the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage and curator of the Center's collaborative exhibition Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage- The First Peoples of Alaska.

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