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Social Challenges of periodic floods in the Yakutia

Filippova V.

Specific entry: Ecology of the Arctic and the North, nature resources

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In recent decades due to climate change in the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) increases the number of flooded settlements. In this article author research addresses problems of social adaptation of people which live in the annually flooded village Kyllah.

About authors

Filippova Viktoriya, Ph. D of History, Institute of Humanity research
and of the North Indigenous people problems, Siberian branch of Russian
academy of Science (Yakutsk). Priority research topics: history, historical
geography, cartography.
Contact Phone: 8-924-166-78-23.
E-mail: filippovav@mail.ru.

Keywords

climate change, indigenous people, socio-cultural problems, adaptation

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