Abstract
Climate change impacts on population health and wellbeing are spatially and socially distributed, and shape place-based capacities, constraints, and priorities for climate change adaptation. Inuit across the Circumpolar North have called for public health monitoring and response systems that integrate environmental and human health data, and provide localized information to support place-based adaptation strategies. The goal of this research was to qualitatively characterize how Inuit in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, identify, interpret, and use environmental and climatic observations to make decisions that will protect and promote their health and wellbeing in the context of climate change. Inuit community research leads conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Rigolet Inuit to identify and contextualize environmental and climatic observations that were important for monitoring. Under the direction of community research leads, qualitative data from interviews were analyzed by the core research team using constant-comparative thematic analysis methods to ensure emergent findings were grounded in the voices and perspectives of Rigolet Inuit. Rigolet Inuit considered all climatic and environmental observations to be connected and emphasized the importance of collective, intergenerational knowledge in understanding and adapting to current and future climate change. The ways that Rigolet Inuit interpreted and used these observations for making decisions depended on perceived relevance and importance of observations, trustworthiness of information, and personal thresholds for risks. Knowledge shared by Rigolet Inuit demonstrated the nuanced, relational nature of how climatic and environmental observations are identified, interpreted, and used in decision-making for place-based climate change adaptation. It is important to prioritize these place-based and locally validated ways of knowing and learning about the land in the development of integrated monitoring systems to inform adaptation strategies that are based on a community’s existing resilience and creativity, and premised on relationships among people and places. In so doing, we can identify entry points for improving the ways in which monitoring systems function to link environment and health data, and inform robust, evidence-based adaptation strategies and policies.
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Sincerest thanks to the community of Rigolet and the many other people involved in this research for sharing their stories, wisdom, and hospitality. There are no words that can express how deeply humbled we are to be working alongside all of you, and how grateful we are for the guidance and leadership you provide that makes this work possible. We would like to acknowledge, honour, and pay respect to the homelands of the Innu and Inuit in Labrador, recognizing their ancestral and continued ties to the lands and waters wherein this research was conducted. We would also like to respectfully acknowledge the Dish with One Spoon territory, the Treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Between the Lakes Purchase (Treaty 3) on which the University of Guelph resides, and the traditional lands of the Cree, Blackfoot, and Métis peoples of Treaty 6 Territory where the University of Alberta resides. The authors would like to acknowledge Isaac Bell for his contributions to data team analysis sessions. Finally, we would like to thank our funders: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, the Northern Scientific Training Program, and POLAR Knowledge Canada.
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Sawatzky, A., Cunsolo, A., Shiwak, I. et al. “It depends…”: Inuit-led identification and interpretation of land-based observations for climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, Labrador. Reg Environ Change 21, 54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01772-4
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