At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Ezra B. W. Zubrow is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology. At the University of Buffalo's School of Law, Errol Meidinger is Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor of Law. At the University of Buffalo's School of Law, Kim Diana Connolly is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Education.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Owen Temby and Peter Stoett
1. In the Vortex of the Thaw: General Introduction
Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and Kim Diana Connolly
Part I.
2. Red Sky in Morning, Sailors Take Warning: Forewarnings from a Thawing Arctic
Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and Kim Diana Connolly
3. Will Action on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Give the Arctic Time to Adapt?
Mark W. Roberts
4. Sustaining Arctic Breeding Waterbirds: Policy Implications for Temperate Countries Resulting from Arctic Climate Change
David A. Stroud
5. Arctic Biodiversity: Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna with Excerpts Taken from the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment
Courtney Price et al.
6. Is the Climatic Optimum on Its Way Back? Consequences, Measures, and Attitudes Associated with Climate Change in Finland
Milton Núñez
7. Teleconnecting the Great Thaw
Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Part II.
8. One Law to Rule Them All: Arctic Climate Change Policy and Legal Realities
Kim Diana Connolly, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Errol Meidinger
9. Regulating in the Face of a Changing World: Legal Regulation of Climate Change
Michael B. Gerrard
10. Avoiding Genocide: Factors Applicable to Adaptation Planning for Arctic Indigenous Peoples
Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner
11. Geopower and Sea Ice: Encounters with the Geopolitical Stage
Duncan Depledge
12. Arctic Wetlands and Limited International Protections: Can the Ramsar Convention Help Meaningfully Address Climate Change?
Kim Diana Connolly
13. Climate Governance and Arctic Governance: You Can't Have One Without the Other? Or, What Dual Governance Failures Look Like
Cinnamon Carlarne
Part III.
14. Polar Communities and Cultures in Addressing Climate Change
Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Kim Diana Connolly
15. Livelihood and Resilience in a Marginal Northern Environment: 1,000 Years on the Småland Plateau
T. L. Thurston
16. The Holocene Catastrophe
André Costopoulos
17. Effects of Natural and Social Stressors on Human Biology: Northern Sweden in the Little Ice Age
Theodore Steegmann
18. Surviving Climate Change: Yup'ik Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, a Film Project
Sarah Elder
19. Resilience, Reindeer, Oil, and Climate Change: Challenges Facing the Nenets Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic
Maria S. Tysiachniouk, Laura A. Henry, and Svetlana A. Tulaeva
20. Representations of Environmental Problems and Climate Change: The Case of the Young Inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires
Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez
21. Future?
Torill Christine Lindstrøm
22. Conclusion: Elegy for the Arctic?
Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Kim Diana Connolly
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index