Indicators of permafrost thaw impacts and of adaptation effectiveness in Arctic coastal communities

This Public Demonstrator is devoted to the development and discussion of Arctic coastal specificindicators of human development and physical changes in order to track changes in the Arcticcoastal zone and to evaluate the future impact of adaptation and mitigation strategies put forwardin task 9.4. The main data for this report have been collected in conversations, interviews andworkshops with Arctic local residents and stakeholders, as well with scientists, and have beenaugmented by a thorough literature review regarding existing indicators on the coastal zone of theArctic. The work is based on the pioneering Arctic Social Indicators reports (Larsen, Schweitzerand Fondahl 2010; Larsen, Schweitzer and Petrov 2015), which provide the framework andstarting point for this demonstrator.