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，但对这些因素如何介导社会和文化变化的长期进程却知之甚少。 本论文的研究项目提出，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的潜在社会和文化影响的理解。 为了探讨这些关系，观测和气象站的数据，短期气候变化，在季节和每日的规模，将被用来分析狩猎活动的成功率和家庭支出的变化存储食物。 将进一步探讨这些模式，方法是审查这些模式与参与生计和现金经济、国家粮食分享网络和家庭粮食安全的不同战略之间的关系。 该项目将收集定性和定量数据，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化的见解。

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.