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Gary Kofinas
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Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7078
Telephone (secondary):
Fax: (907) 474-6967
E-mail1 (primary): ffgpk@uaf.edu
E-mail2 (secondary): gary.kofinas@uaf.edu
Web URL: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffgpk/
Address:
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 757000
301 Irving #1
Fairbanks, AK 99775
United States
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Official position at
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Bonanza Creek LTER Personnel
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Educational Institutions
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B.A.- 1975 - (Philosophy), University of North Carolina Greensboro
M.S.T. (Environmental Studies), Antioch/New England Graduate School, Keene, NH. (1978)
Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Resource Management Science), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1998).
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| Roles/Affiliations: |
Resilience and Adaptation Program
Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning
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Study Areas
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GIS/Spatial Data
Social/Human Dimensions
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| Categories: |
Biological Diversity
Climate
Human Dimensions
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| Keywords: |
adaptation
co-management
local knowledge
policy
resilience
rural communities
subsistence
sustainability
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Datasets
Publications (14)
Journal Articles:
Berman, M. and G. Kofinas. 2004 Hunting for models: Grounded and rational choice approaches to analyzing climate effects on subsistence hunting in an Arctic community. Ecological Economics 49(1): 31-46.
Berman, M., C. Nicolson, G. Kofinas, J. Tetlichi, S. Martin. 2004 Adaptation and sustainability in a small arctic community: Results of an agent-based simulation model. Arctic 57(4): 401-414.
Kruse, J.A., R.G. White, H.E. Epstein, B. Archie, M.Berman, S.R. Braund, F.S. Chapin III, J. Charlie Sr., C.J. Daniel, J. Eamer, N. Flanders, B. Griffith, S. Haley, L. Huskey, B. Joseph, D.R. Klein, G.P. Kofinas, S.M. Martin, S.M. Murphy, W. Nebesky, C. Nicolson, D.E. Russell, J. Tetlichi, A. Tussing, M.D. Walker and O.R. Young. 2004 Modelling sustainability of arctic communities: an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers and local knowledge holders. Ecosystems 7: 815-828.
Hinzman, L., N. Bettez, W.R. Bolton, F.S. Chapin III, M. Dyurgerov, C. Fastie, B. Griffith, R.D. Hollister, A. Hope, H.P. Huntington, A. Jensen, G.J. Jia, T. Jorgenson, D.L. Kane, D.R. Klein, G. Kofinas, A. Lynch, A. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, F. Nelson, W.C. Oechel, T. Osterkamp, C. Racine, V. Romanovsky, R. Stone, D. Stow, M. Sturm, C.E. Tweedie, G. Vourlitis, M. Walker, D. Walker, P.J. Webber, J. Welker, K. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa. 2005 Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions. Climatic Change 72(3)251-298
Chapin, F.S., III, A.L. Lovecraft, E.S. Zavaleta, J. Nelson, M.D. Robards, G.P. Kofinas, S.F. Trainor, G.D. Peterson, H.P. Huntington, and R.L. Naylor. 2006 Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(45):16637-16643.doi:10.1073/pnas.0606955103
Chapin, F.S., III, M.D. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, G.P Kofinas R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D.C. Natcher, and R.L. Naylor. 2006 Directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems: A framework for prediction based on Alaskan examples. American Naturalist 168:S36-S49
Brinkman, T. J., G. P. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III, and D. K. Person. 2007 Influence of Hunter Adaptability on Resilience of Subsistence Hunting Systems, Ecological Anthropology.
Trainor, S.F., Chapin III, F.S., Huntington, H.P., Natcher, D.C. and Kofinas, G. 2007 Arctic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environment 2007 12(6):627-643 DOI: 10.1080/13549830701657414
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008 Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. [online]URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art46/
Brinkman, T. J., T. Chapin, G. Kofinas, and D. K. Person. 2009 Linking hunter knowledge with forest change to understand changing deer harvest opportunities in intensively logged landscapes. Ecology and Society 14(1): 36. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art36/
Books:
Chapin, F.S., III, G.P. Kofinas, and C. Folke (editors). 2009. Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. Springer, New York.
Book Chapters:
Kofinas, G., Aklavik, Arctic Village, Old Crow, and F. McPherson.. 2002. Community contributions to ecological monitoring: Knowledge co-production in the U.S.-Canadian Arctic borderlands. Pages 54-91 in The earth is faster now: Indigenous observations of Arctic environmental change. I. Krupnik and D. Jolly, editors. ARCUS, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Chapin, F.S. III, M. Berman, T.V. Callaghan, P. Convey, A.-S. Crepin, K. Danell, H. Ducklow, B. Forbes, G. Kofinas, A.D. McGuire, M. Nuttall, R. Virginia, O. Young, and S. Zimov. 2005. Polar Systems. Pages 717-743 In H. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash (Eds) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Island Press, Washington.
Kofinas, G. P., S. J. Herman and C. L. Meek. 2007. Novel Problems Require Novel Solutions: Innovation as an Outcome of Adaptive Co-Management. Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance. Derek Armitage, Fikret Berkes and N. Doubleday. Vancouver, UBC Press: 249-267.
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