Welcome to the post-conference website
What's new?
June 3, 2008: A selection of papers from the conference has just now been published in The Northern Review #28. Conference participants may obtain PDFs of specific papers upon request to review@yukoncollege.yk.ca.
About the conference
The Rapid Landscape Change Conference was held June 15-17, 2005, in Whitehorse, Yukon. The 3-day meeting reviewed current research on the effects of climate and landscape change in the North throughout the Holocene, and on the chronology and nature of past environmental events. It sought insights from past landscape changes and the way ancient peoples responded that might be useful for today's changing environments.
Topics included:
- Holocene environmental change
- Tracking current landscape and ecosystem change
- Human pre-history and responses to changes on land and sea
- The people's story - anthropology and legends
- Human versus non-human drivers
- Lessons for adaptation
- Acknowledging natural change in thought and action
Organizing committee
- Antony R. Berger and David Liverman (Co-Chairs)
- Claire Eamer, John Streicker, Norm Easton and Michael Westlake (Yukon College)
- Panya Lipovsky (Yukon Geological Survey)
- Paul Matheus (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Michael Gates (Parks Canada)
- Chris Marion (Whitehorse)
Sponsors
International sponsors:
Canadian sponsors:
