Impacts of cryosphere-hydrosphere change on ecosystems and livelihoods in northern Nunatsiavut, Canada (IMAGINE)

Start date: 5 May 2022
End date: 5 May 2025
Funder: UK Research and Innovation
Value: £612,608
Partners and collaborators: Nicholas Barrand (University of Birmingham, UK) David Hannah (University of Birmingham, UK) Robert Way (Queen's University, Canada) Andrew Trant (University of Waterloo, Canada) Alain Cuerrier (University of Montreal, Canada) Nunatsiavut Government, Canada
Primary investigator: Professor James Ford
Co-investigators: Professor Duncan Quincey, Dr. Ishfaq Hussain Malik
External co-investigators: Prof. Nicholas Barrand (University of Birmingham, UK)

Nunatsiavut, Canada

The project focusses on advancing understanding of the impact of cryosphere and hydrosphere change on ecosystem functioning in northern Nunatsiavut, assessing the socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience of Nunatsiavummiut, and creating new adaptation strategies. It aims to identify and characterise how climate change is experienced, perceived, and responded to at a community level by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic. The project documents and examine factors affecting risk and resilience, from which opportunities for adaptation and resilience building are identified and evaluated.

Publications and outputs

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003655

https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/12/2/24

https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/geo2.140

Project website

https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FX003868%2F1#/tabOverview