2026

• Rose, D., Birchall, SJ., Rogers, N., Bonnett, N., Seilabi, AE. (2026). Overcoming local-scale climate change adaptation implementation lag. PLOS Climate. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000998 

2025

• Gauthier, M., Birchall, SJ., Hirshberg, D., Bonnett, N., Rose, D., Russell-Loewen, D., Sinisalo, A., Speca, A., Topkok, SA. (2025). Transforming education in the Arctic: Co-creation, decolonization and participatory approaches. Arctic. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic83510
• Sandberg, L., Bonnett, N., Birchall, SJ. (2025). Adapting to environmental hazards in Norway: Confusion over legal responsibility results in stalled action and greater risk of disaster. Intl. J. of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105807 
• Rose, D., Birchall, SJ. (2025). Investigating the extent and quality of health-focused climate adaptation planning: Insights from Western Canadian communities. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104192 
• Bonnett, N., Birchall, SJ. (2025). Local planning for climate induced relocation: A systematic review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105094
• Birchall, SJ., Bonnett, N., Rose, D., Gilchrist, E. (2025). Factors contributing to climate adaptation lag in practice: Insights from local and territorial government interactions. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104097.
• Kehler, S., Birchall, SJ. (2025). Why history matters to planning: Climate change, colonialism & maladaptation. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104076.
• Baran, N., Birchall, SJ. (2025). The influence of ecosystem service values on green infrastructure and urban development: Insights from 5 Canadian municipalities. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2025.2528643.

• Rose, D., Birchall, SJ., Filimonova, N., Jacobsen, RB., Duffy, J. (2025). Climate adaptation in northern communities: The value of framing, flexibility, and knowledge. PLOS Climate 4(11): e0000759. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000759

2024

• Filimonova, N., Birchall, SJ. (2024). Sustainable municipal solid waste management: A comparative analysis of enablers and barriers to advance governance in the Arctic. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123111. ·
• Herrmann, A. (2024). Landscape of Tribal communities: Context for working in rural Alaska. Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center.
• Rose, D., Birchall, SJ. (2024). Bolstering community resilience through health-focused climate change adaptation: Moving from talk to action in Western Canadian communities. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2395920.
• Zazula, N., Birchall, SJ. (2024). Urban resilience through ecosystem services in Edmonton, Canada: An assessment of gaps and recommendations. Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01561-x.
• Birchall, SJ., MacDonald, S., Bonnett, N. (2024). Climate change adaptation planning: Breaking down barriers through comprehensive educational frameworks. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X241242059.

2023

• Muffly, J., Birchall, SJ. (2023). Key Elements of defensible space land use bylaw provisions in wildland-urban interface municipalities of Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103988.
• Birchall, SJ, Kehler, S. (2023). Denial and discretion as a governance process: How actor perceptions of risk and responsibility hinder adaptation to climate change. Environmental Science and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.05.017.
• Kehler, S. & Birchall, SJ. (2023). Climate change adaptation: How short-term political priorities trample public well-being. Environmental Science & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.05.012.
• J D’Souza, J Dawson, M Groulx (2023). Last chance tourism: a decade review of a case study on Churchill, Manitoba’s polar bear viewing industry. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 31 (1), 14-31.

2022

• Birchall, SJ., Kehler, S, Bonnett, N. (2022). Fostering resilience and adapting to climate change in the Canadian North: Implications for infrastructure in the proposed Canadian Northern Corridor. Canadian Northern Corridor Special Series, School of Public Policy Publications, University of Calgary. http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.11575/sppp.v15i1.74463.
• Van Asshe, K., Birchall, SJ., Gruezmacher, M. (2022). Arctic and northern community governance: The need for local planning and design as resilience strategy. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106062.

2021

• M Groulx, A Winegardner, MC Brisbois, LA Fishback, R Linde, K Levy (2021). Place and transformative learning in climate change focused community science. FACETS 6 (1), 1773-1794.
• Lede E, Pearce T, Furgal C, Sidle R, Ashford G and Ford J. (2021). The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Regional Environmental Change.
• Nuttall, M. (2021). Arctic ecology, Indigenous peoples and environmental governance, in David Thomas (ed.) Arctic Ecology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 409-422.

2020

• Emanuelsen K, Pearce T, Oakes J, Harper S and Ford J. (2020). Sewing and Inuit women’s health in the Canadian Arctic. Social Science & Medicine.
• Chen, W., Van Assche, K. A. M., Hynes, S., Bekkby, T., Christie, H. C., & Gundersen, H. (2020). Ecosystem accounting's potential to support coastal and marine governance. Marine Policy, 112, 103758.
• Naylor A, Ford J, Pearce T and Van Alstine J. (2020). Conceptualizing climate vulnerability in complex adaptive systems. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.011
• Pearce T, Ford J and Fawcett D (2020). Climate Change and implications for the proposed Canadian Northern Corridor. University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, 13(21): 39.
• Canosa I, Ford J, McDowell G, Jones J and Pearce T. (2020). Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters.
• Worden E, Pearce T, Gruben M, Ross D, Kowana C and Loseto L. (2020). Social-ecological changes and implications for understanding the declining beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) harvest in Aklavik, NT. Arctic Science.
• Pettit-Wade H, Pearce T, Kuptana D, Gallagher C, Scharffenberg K, Lea E, Hussey N and Loseto L. (2020). Inuit observations of a Tunicata bloom unusual for the Amundsen Gulf, western Canadian Arctic. Arctic Science.
• Johnson N, Pearce T, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN and Loseto L. (2020). Knowledge co-production and co-management of Arctic wildlife. Arctic Science, 6: 124-126.
• Nuttall, M. (2020). Water, ice and climate change in Northwest Greenland’ WIREs Water 7(3): https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1433.
• Nuttall, M., Flora, J., & Andersen, A.O. (2020). Towards community-based narwhal conservation in Greenland. Science 370 (6515), 1: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6515/416.1/tab-e-letters.
• Nuttall, M. & Callaghan, T.V. (2020). Preface, in Mark Nuttall and Terry V. Callaghan (eds.) The Arctic: environment, people, policy. London and New York: Routledge (book re-published in the Routledge Library Editions: Ecology series, with new Preface).
• Loseto L, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN, Johnson N, Pearce T, Allen J, Amos A, Arqviq J, Baak E, Belanger E, Bourdages M, Brammer JR, Fawcett D, Gerin-Lajoie J, Gilbert G, Hansen-Craik K, Loring E, Perrin A and Slavitch M. (2020). Indigenous participation in peer review publications and the editorial process: reflections from a workshop. Arctic Science.
• Pearce T and Myers E (2020). Nunamin Illihakvia: learning from the land, Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Alternatives Journal. 44(1): 5-47. 
• Ford J, King N, Galappaththi E, Pearce T, McDowell G and Harper S (2020). The resilience of Indigenous peoples to environmental change. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.014 
• Bonnett, N., Birchall, SJ. (2020). Coastal communities in the Circumpolar North and the need for sustainable climate adaptation approaches. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104175

• Timothy Heleniak (Nordregio) - Polar Peoples in the Future: Projections of the Arctic Populations. Working Paper,  Executive Summary

• Special Section on Land-sea interactions and coastal development, in Marine Policy. See the volume here. Thematic Network member contributions include: 1. Schluter et al.: Land-sea interactions and coastal development: An evolutionary governance perspective: 2. van Assche et al.: Governance and the coastal condition: Towards new modes of observation, adaptation and integration, 3. Birchall: Coastal climate adaptation planning and evolutionary governance: Insights from Homer, Alaska

2019

• M Groulx, LA Fishback, A Winegardner (2019). Citizen science and the public nature of climate action. Polar Geography 42 (3), 176-195.
• Boezeman, D., Donkers, H., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Coastal managed retreat: New branch on the climate adaptation tree. Geografie. https://geografie.nl/artikel/dit-lees-je-het-septembernummer-van-geografie-2019.
• MacDonald, S., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Climate change resilience in the Canadian Arctic: The need for collaboration in the face of a changing landscape. Canadian Geographer, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12591. 
• Ford J, Clarke D, Pearce T, Berrang-Ford L, Copland L, Dawson J, Mark N and Harper S. (2019). Changing access to ice, land, and water in Arctic communities. Nature Climate Change, NCLIM-18091686B
• Shields, R. Ruiz, F, Schonach, P. (2019). Beyond Melt Indigenous Lifeways in a Fading Cryosphere.’ with. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue. 13(2), 7-15.
• Shields, R. (2019). The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue.13(2), 93-107.
• Nuttall, M. (2019). Icy, watery, liquescent: sensing and feeling climate change on Northwest Greenland’s coast. Journal of Northern Studies 14(2): 71-91.
• Dodds, K.& Nuttall, M. (2019). The Arctic: what everyone needs to know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 272.
• Dodds, K., & Nuttall, M. (2019). Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland, in Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsberg (eds.) The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: reconfiguring identity, space, and time. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 224-241.
• Nuttall, M. (2019). Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland’s Melville Bay during the Cold War, in Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt (eds.) Cold Science: environmental knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War. London and New York, pp. 23-41.
• Nuttall, M. (2019). Sea ice, climate and resources: the changing nature of hunting along Greenland’s northwest coast, in Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (eds). Climate, Capitalism and Communities: an anthropology of environmental overheating. London: Pluto Press, pp. 57-75. 
• Nuttall, M. (2019). Greenland matters: in the crosscurrents of Arctic change, in Robert R. Corell, Jong Deog Kim, Yoon Hyung Kim, Arild Moe, Charles E. Morrison, David L. VanderZwaag and Oran R. Young (eds.) The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on Global-Arctic Interactions—the Arctic moves from periphery to centre. Busan: Korea Maritime Institute & Honolulu: East-West Centre, pp. 89-107.
• Birchall, SJ. (2019). Coastal climate adaptation planning and evolutionary governance: Insights from Alaska. Marine Policy, Land and Sea Interaction Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.029.
• Birchall, SJ, Bonnett, N. (2019). Local-scale climate change stressors and policy response: The case of Homer, Alaska. Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1537975.
• Birchall, SJ., Bonnett, N. (2019). Thinning sea ice and thawing permafrost: Climate change adaptation planning in Nome, Alaska. Environmental Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2019.1637331.

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