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The Ivalo River and its People: There Have Always Been Floods – What Is Different Now?

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The Ivalo River and its annual variation have always been a part of the everyday life of the nearby town’s inhabitants. This case study looks at the history of flooding and closely analyses the latest major flood of 2005. The development of the community, with particular respect to increase of infrastructure, has left the community more vulnerable to flooding than before. The case study discovers that the critical issue for adaptation to flood risk is communication within the community between local people, decision-makers and regional actors involved with flood protection. Adaptation to future flooding needs a multilevel and flexible strategy. The analysis integrates anthropological, political and natural science information.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the inhabitants of Ivalo town and our interviewees for their collaboration. We thank the Arctic Research Centre of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Sodankylä, Finland for providing meteorological data, and the Finnish Environment Institute, for hydrological data. We also thank our research assistants, Tiina Heikkilä and Mari Ryömä, for their help with the interview and newspaper material.

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  1. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Box 122, 96101, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Monica Tennberg

  2. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Terhi Vuojala-Magga & Minna Turunen

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Tennberg, M., Vuojala-Magga, T., Turunen, M. (2010). The Ivalo River and its People: There Have Always Been Floods – What Is Different Now?. In: Hovelsrud, G., Smit, B. (eds) Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9174-1_9

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