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Title: Responding to the housing crisis in the Arctic: A transdisciplinary approach across physical, natural, and social systems, Organizational Interviews - Alaska, Summer 2019 to Spring 2020
This dataset contains de-identified transcripts of semi-structured interviews conducted with 25 stakeholders who make adaptation decisions for government agencies, nonprofits, engineering firms, or academic institutions in rural Alaska. The stakeholders included 14 government organizations, 5 private industry organizations, 2 academic institutions, non-profit organizations and tribal organizations each respectively. The file contains questions aimed at understanding stakeholders’ work in rural Alaska and how their work affects the adaptation of infrastructure including barriers of infrastructure adaption and the dimensions of adaptation barriers. The data was collected from Summer 2019 to Spring 2020.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1928105
PAR ID:
10477397
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
NSF Arctic Data Center
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Climate change adaptation, Rural Alaska, infrastructure adaptation, inter-organizational coordination, Sustainable Livelihoods Framework
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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