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Water, Climate, and Community Resilience in the Arctic, Carlos Pineda…
Water, Climate, and Community Resilience in the Arctic
Lecture Content
:speaking_head_in_silhouette:
What is Water?
:potable_water:
Life
Drinking source
Personal usage
Economic usage
Life on the Ice
Complex
Relient on environment
Transportation
Coexistence
Uncertain Future
Climate Change
Warming climate
Rapid Change
Impact on water access
Generational Wealth
:sparkles:
Elder/Youth Relationship
Inuit traditions
Generartional knowledge
Deep connection to environment
Artic Challenges
:snowflake:
Changing sea
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Rapid breaking time
Erratic snowfall
Increased rainfall
Unnatural for area
Increases melting of ice
Infrastructure Challenges
:cityscape:
Water Access
No piped water
Trucked water
Sanitation Challenges
Trucked sewage
Storage tanks in homes
No sewage lines
Food Insecurity
High rates
Caribou out-migration
Due to climate change
Impacting other communities
Limits hunting
Imapacts cultural practices
High prices
Low quality
High transportation cost
Connection to Class
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Sanitation
:wastebasket:
6 Stages of sanitation
Treatment
Disposal
Transportation
Deposition
Collection
Reuse
Lags behind water access
2.5 Billion people affected
Reason water treatment is preferred
Implementation scales
Point of Extraction/Entry
Advanced treatment
Advanced maintenance
Standardizes water quality
Point of use
Household control
Diverse treatment methods
Maintenance falls on household
Portable Alternative Sanitation System
No plumbing required
Low-cost sanitation system :moneybag:
Portable
Toilets :toilet:
5-gallon buckets
Trash bags required
waste goes to landfill
Risks :red_flag:
Poor sanitation
Water contamination
Health problems
Connection to Other Classes
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Disaster Resilience
Resilience
:earth_americas:
community’s long-term survivall
Reduce damage/disruptions
Bounce back
Disaster
:black_flag:
Nature phenomenon
Vulnerability
Socio-economic activities
Socio-economic assets
Exposure to harm
Man made
Challenges :red_cross:
Hazardous areas already populated
Development restrictions not popular
Rapid changing climate
Proactive policies hard to sell
Solutions
Identify community gatekeepers
Access to local knowledge
Long-term success
Lasting Impact on Community
Eqauitable solutions
Place equity
who faces hazard exposure?
Built environment quality
Ecosystem qaulity
Social capacity
Community engagement
Social networks
Social cohesion
Capacity equity
Sustainability efforts
Local resource capacity
Equitable investment
Class: UAP 5214
Outside References
A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
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Big challenge
Economic growth
Daily concerns take priority
No consistent standards/metrics
Post disaster realization
People don’t prioritize resilience
Too little, too late
Shift in thinking
Shift: Vulnerability to Resilience
Why focus on resilience?
Vulnerability
Conditions before disaster
Conditions that could harm
Community sensitivity
Resilience
Ability to recover
Ability to respond
Proactive measures
How to measure resilience?
Look at social factors
Look at economic factors
Look at physical factors
Look at environmental factors
Look at institutional factors
Different views on vulnerability
Social issues
Inequality
Access to resources
Hazards exposure
Who is in danger?
What is in danger?
Cutter, S. L., Barnes, L., Berry, M., Burton, C., Evans, E., Tate, E., & Webb, J. (2008). A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters. Global Environmental Change, Local Evidence on Vulnerabilities and Adaptations to Global Environmental Change, 18(4), 598–606.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.07.013
The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jet-stream: Can it? Has it? Will it?
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Why does this matter?
Extreme winters
Heat wave
Increased natural disasters
Jet stream role
Controls weather patterns
Affects storms
Affects surface weather
Is artic melting happening?
Yes
Its influencing weather patterns
Affetcing the jet stream
Colder winter
Drier winters
Persistent weather
Long-lasting extreme summer
Barnes, E. A., & Screen, J. A. (2015). The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jet‐stream: Can it? Has it? Will it?
https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.337
Carlos Pineda-Lopez
4/30/2026