Environmental and Social Change in the North Atlantic Arc (NAArc)

北大西洋弧项目探讨了北大西洋依赖渔业的地区环境与社会变化之间的联系。该项目以20世纪80年代末和90年代初鳕鱼危机的研究为基础，对影响冰岛、纽芬兰、挪威和格陵兰岛社区的最近海洋学、生物学和社会经济变化的数据进行了比较分析。该研究有四个目标：（1）记录依赖粮食的社会的变化;（2）详细描述人类与环境相互作用动态的共同模式和区域差异;（3）探索关于个人、社区和企业适应大规模环境变化的假设;（4）发展经验知识和模型，以评估可能的政策反应。

The North Atlantic Arc project explores the linkages between environment and social change in fisheries-dependent regions of the North Atlantic. Building on previous research that focused on the cod crises of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the project involves comparative analysis of data on recent oceanographic, biological, and socioeconomic changes affecting communities in Iceland, Newfoundland, Norway, and Greenland. The research has four goals: (1) document changes in fisheries-dependent societies; (2) construct a detailed picture of common patterns and regional differences in the dynamics of human-environment interactions; (3) explore hypotheses about individual, community, and enterprise adaptations to large-scale environmental change; and (4) develop empirical knowledge and models for evaluating possible policy responses.