Pillar Integration
The POLARIS project aims to serve as a model for exploring the dynamics of socio-environmental systems in the Arctic
Integrating the Research Pillars with Complex Systems
Convergence among disciplines and with society requires integration that spans knowledge systems. By synthesizing our work on environmental hotspots, food security, and migration, in collaboration with local communities, we have the opportunity to help identify sustainable pathways to navigate the new Arctic.
Davin Holen
Transferable Results to Other Arctic Communities
Through integration of our pillars, POLARIS aims to address the question: What are the important assets (social, environmental, infrastructural, institutional) that Alaska coastal communities can rely on to help them adapt and become more resilient to climate-related environmental change?
Alyssa Guthrie
Transdisciplinary & Convergent
We will compare the results to the findings from other coastal Indigenous communities to assess how generalizable and transferrable results are to other Arctic Indigenous communities. The models and protocols to be co-produced are replicable.
The POLARIS project aims to serve as a model for exploring the dynamics of socio-environmental systems in the Arctic as well as provide a valuable protocol for effectively engaging local communities to measure/identify environmental stressors and ecological and infrastructural disruptions and to recommend policy strategies to cope with the foreseeable disruptions and disasters.