Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this publication, we show the link between environmental change, based on Inuit perspectives and\ndirect observations, and biodiversity, which is the sum of all living beings and things. We summarize the\nmany changes Inuit have reported as impacting biodiversity, such as the appearance of insects formerly\nnot seen, and at the same time examine how local knowledge is crucial to adapting to changes in biodiversity.\nFinally, we discuss the connection between biodiversity and Inuit health and why changes in\nArctic biodiversity will mean changes to human life in the Arctic.\nInuit have been reporting environmental changes in the Arctic, such as differences in sea-ice thaw and\nfreeze-up, for years and several publications have documented these observations from various regions\nof the circumpolar world. The most comprehensive approach to document these observations in Canada\nis found in the book Unikkaaqatigiit — Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Inuit\nin Canada (Nickels et al., 2006). Unikkaaqatigiit summarizes what Inuit have said about environmental\nchange. It is also one of the first published records of Inuit adaptations to climate change in that it\nreports on how communities and individuals are responding to change and adjusting to it in their daily\nlives.\nThe main findings in our report rely upon published materials on biodiversity. The core of this report is\nbased on materials produced under international and national biodiversity programs and documentation\nof Indigenous insights into climate change. The tables provide hands-on examples of how local\nobservations can be organized to have relevance in discussions of biodiversity.\nChanges in climate and weather events in the Arctic and their subsequent effects on the biological systems\nof the region have impacts on food security and economic well-being of Inuit. Limited access to\ncaribou, seal, fish, berries and other ‘country foods’ leads to greater reliance on imported store-bought\nfoods. Aside from a change in diet, which can be stressful for the human body, the transition from nutrient-\ndense country foods to less nutritious store-bought foods may have an even more significant impact\non the health of Inuit, in the short and long term.\nThe link between the loss of biological diversity and the parallel loss of cultural diversity is only now\nbeginning to be recognized. The Arctic is homeland to Inuit, not only in Canada but circumpolar, and\nInuit are the first to see and feel the changes in ice, water and land. The pace of change has quickened\nand we can observe changes in temperature, plant growth and wildlife behavior within several calendar\nyears instead of over centuries. Changes to the living resources of the Arctic translate into rapid changes\nin the lifestyles of local human populations and increased stress on the health and well-being of Inuit.\nWe hope that this publication and others like it will draw attention to the importance of biodiversity\nin the circumpolar Arctic and that the world will be guided by the knowledge and wisdom of Inuit\nregarding the homelands, environment and biodiversity upon which they rely.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".