Assessing Climate Change Risk and Resilience in the Yukon
What participants had to say about climate change impacts and resilience in the Yukon
You're always ensuring everyone's got food; if one
house is low on food, there's sharing. Teaching
resilience through sharing and caring... that is our
(community) value...
PROJECT PARTICIPANT
When people in a community are close to the land-
scape, the rapid change of that landscape can lead
to a sense of loss, insecurity, uncertainty and grief.
PROJECT PARTICIPANT
TILTA
It's often the next community that houses and
feeds another in the case of emergency... and that's
the level of planning that we need to see happen.
PROJECT PARTICIPANT, EMERGENCY MEASURES ORG.
Resilience means survival and we always have
[survived].
PROJECT PARTICIPANT FROM
CHAMPAGNE AND AISHIHIK FIRST NATIONS
B
Storytelling has been a guidebook that First
Nations have always used to pass down lessons,
laws, guides for the younger people.
ELDER JOE COPPER JACK
In my community, people are asking, "Are we
going to keep re-leveling my house every couple of
years?" How do we address the problem?"
PROJECT PARTICIPANT
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