Alessa Lilian, Kliskey Andrew, Lammers Richard, Arp Chris, White Dan, Hinzman Larry, Busey Robert
Resilience and Adaptive Management Group, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK, 99508, USA.
Environ Manage. 2008 Sep;42(3):523-41. doi: 10.1007/s00267-008-9152-0. Epub 2008 Jun 17.
People in the Arctic face uncertainty in their daily lives as they contend with environmental changes at a range of scales from local to global. Freshwater is a critical resource to people, and although water resource indicators have been developed that operate from regional to global scales and for midlatitude to equatorial environments, no appropriate index exists for assessing the vulnerability of Arctic communities to changing water resources at the local scale. The Arctic Water Resource Vulnerability Index (AWRVI) is proposed as a tool that Arctic communities can use to assess their relative vulnerability-resilience to changes in their water resources from a variety of biophysical and socioeconomic processes. The AWRVI is based on a social-ecological systems perspective that includes physical and social indicators of change and is demonstrated in three case study communities/watersheds in Alaska. These results highlight the value of communities engaging in the process of using the AWRVI and the diagnostic capability of examining the suite of constituent physical and social scores rather than the total AWRVI score alone.
北极地区的人们在日常生活中面临着不确定性，因为他们要应对从地方到全球范围内的各种环境变化。淡水对人们来说是至关重要的资源，尽管已经制定了适用于从区域到全球尺度以及中纬度到赤道环境的水资源指标，但目前还没有合适的指数来评估北极社区在地方尺度上面临水资源变化时的脆弱性。北极水资源脆弱性指数（AWRVI）被提议作为一种工具，北极社区可以用它来评估自身在各种生物物理和社会经济过程中，相对于水资源变化的脆弱性-恢复力。AWRVI基于社会-生态系统视角，包括变化的物理和社会指标，并在阿拉斯加的三个案例研究社区/流域中得到验证。这些结果凸显了社区参与使用AWRVI过程的价值，以及审视一系列构成性物理和社会得分而非仅审视AWRVI总分的诊断能力。
