Doctoral Dissertation Research: Environmental variability and food security in Nunavik, Canada

全球环境变化是北极社区主要关注的问题，但人们对这些因素如何调节社会和文化变革的长期过程知之甚少。本论文的研究项目旨在通过将短期环境变化与家庭层面的不同社会和经济结果联系起来，提高我们对北极环境变化潜在的社会和文化影响的理解。为了探索这些关系，将利用季节性和日尺度的短期气候变化的观测和气象站数据来分析狩猎活动成功率和家庭储存食物支出的变化。将进一步探讨这些模式，考察它们与维持生计和现金经济、国家粮食共享网络和家庭粮食安全的不同参与战略之间的联系。该项目将收集定性和定性数据，并有可能增加我们对快速环境变化如何影响社会和文化变革的见解。

Global environmental change is an issue of major concern for Arctic communities but there is little understanding of how these factors mediate longer-term processes of social and cultural change. This dissertation research project proposes to improve our understanding of the potential social and cultural impacts of environmental change in the Arctic by relating short-term environmental variability to different social and economic outcomes at the household level. To explore these relationships, observational and weather station data on short-term climate variability, on seasonal and daily scales, will be used to analyze variation in the success rates of hunting activities and in household expenditures for store food. These patterns will be further explored by examining their articulation with different strategies of engagement with the subsistence and cash economies, country food-sharing networks, and household food security. The project will gather both qualitative and qualitative data and has the potential to increase our insights into how rapid environmental change is affecting social and cultural change.