Book chapter: Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region
Book chapter: Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region
This report presents the results of the 2018 AMAP Assessment of Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA): Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region. This is one of the three pilot study regions included in the AACA project. AACA is the first AMAP assessment dealing with adaptation actions and how to meet possible Arctic futures in these times of rapid change.
Dawson, J., Kaae, B., Johnston, M., Bjørst, L. R., and Pizzolato, L. 2018. Chapter 8: Tourism: Adaptation actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region (pp 223-242)
ABSTRACT
The Arctic tourism industry has been growing rapidly over the past decade, in part because of climate change. Reductions in sea ice related to climate change have facilitated increased and reliable access to parts of the Arctic that were difficult to reach in the past. The allure of these newly accessible regions to
tourism adventurers has increased tourism demand, including that related to a niche market segment of tourists motivated to see the region before it changes forever.
tourism adventurers has increased tourism demand, including that related to a niche market segment of tourists motivated to see the region before it changes forever.
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