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A Call for Urgent Monitoring of Food and Water Security Based on Relevant Indicators for the Arctic |
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| Authors: | Lena Maria Nilsson Georgia Destouni James Berner Alexey A Dudarev Gert Mulvad Jon Øyvind Odland Alan Parkinson Constantine Tikhonov Arja Rautio Birgitta Evengård |
| Institution: | 1. Arctic Research Centre, Ume? University, Ume?, Sweden 2. Nutritional Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Ume? University, 901 85, Ume?, Sweden 3. Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology and Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden 4. Division of Community Health, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK, USA 5. Hygiene Department, Northwest Public Health Research Center, 4, 2-Sovetskaya Street, 191036, St. Petersburg, Russia 6. Greenland Center for Health Research, University of Greenland, Postboks 1001, 3900, Nuuk, Greenland 7. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Troms?, 9019, Troms?, Norway 8. Arctic Investigations Program, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Anchorage, AK, 99516, USA 9. Environmental Public Health Division, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 10. Thule Institute, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 7300, Oulu, Finland 11. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ume? University Hospital, 901 85, Ume?, Sweden |
| Abstract: | This perspective paper argues for an urgent need to monitor a set of 12 concrete, measurable indicators of food and water security in the Arctic over time. Such a quantitative indicator approach may be viewed as representing a reductionist rather than a holistic perspective, but is nevertheless necessary for actually knowing what reality aspects to monitor in order to accurately understand, quantify, and be able to project critical changes to food and water security of both indigenous and non-indigenous people in the Arctic. More relevant indicators may be developed in the future, taking us further toward reconciliation between reductionist and holistic approaches to change assessment and understanding. However, the potential of such further development to improved holistic change assessment is not an argument not to urgently start to monitor and quantify the changes in food and water security indicators that are immediately available and adequate for the Arctic context. |
| Keywords: | Food security Water security Arctic Circumpolar Climate change Public health |
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