scholarly journals Population fluctuations of the muskrat in coastal northern Sweden

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjell Danell
Keyword(s):  
Population Fluctuations ◽  
Northern Sweden

Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment: Who are they, and Where are they?

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 2705-2709 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Population Fluctuations ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Fisheries Resources ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
Resource And Environment

The Chesapeake Bay, while a significant habitat for fisheries resources, is in actuality an aquatic “bedroom community”, as many of the economically important species are seasonally transient. The pressure on these resources due to their demand for human consumption and recreation, proximity to extensive industrial activity along the shores, and climate scale environmental fluctuations has resulted in stock declines by most important species. Our inability to separate natural population fluctuations from those of anthropogenic origin complicates management efforts. The only way to make these separations, and subsequent informed management decisions is by supporting long-term stock assessment programs (monitoring) in the Bay which allow us to examine trends, cycles and stochastic processes between resource and environment. These programs need to monitor both recruitment and fishing mortality rates of the economically important species, and to identify and monitor the environmentally sensitive “canary” species.

Turbulent Climate Discourses in Northern Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-42
Author(s):  
Flora Mary Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Environmental Engagement ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Crucial Part

I examine how tensions between locals, environmentalists, and State politicians in a small town in northern Sweden are reinforced through national discourses of climate change and sustainability. Turbulence emerges across different scales of responsibility and environmental engagement in Arjeplog as politicians are seen by local inhabitants to be engaging more with the global conversation than with the local experience of living in the north. Moreover, many people view the environmentalist discourses from the politicians in the south, whom they deem to be out of touch with rural life, as threatening to the local experience of nature. These discourses pose a threat to their reliance on petrol, essential for travel, and are experienced locally as a continuation of the south’s historical interference in the region. Based on thirteen months of field research, I argue that mistrust of the various messengers of climate change, including politicians and environmentalists, is a crucial part of the scepticism towards the climate change discourse and that we as researchers need to utilise the strengths of anthropology in examining the reception (or refusal) of climate change. The locals’ mistrust of environment discourses had implications for my positionality, as I was associated with these perceived ‘outsider’ sensibilities. While the anthropology of climate change often focusses on physical impacts and resilience, I argue that we need to pay due attention to the local turbulence surrounding the discourses of climate change, which exist alongside the physical phenomena.  

scholarly journals Population studies in northern Sweden

Hereditas ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. BECKMAN ◽  
B. CEDERGREN ◽  
M. RASMUSON
Keyword(s):  
Population Studies ◽  
Northern Sweden

scholarly journals Occupational cold exposure is associated with increased reporting of airway symptoms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albin Stjernbrandt ◽  
Nikolai Stenfors ◽  
Ingrid Liljelind
Keyword(s):  
Cold Exposure ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Airway Symptoms

Abstract Objective To determine if exposure to cold environments, during work or leisure time, was associated with increased reporting of airway symptoms in the general population of northern Sweden. Methods Through a population-based postal survey responded to by 12627 subjects, ages 18–70, living in northern Sweden, the occurrence of airway symptoms was investigated. Cold exposure during work or leisure time was self-reported on numerical rating scales. Binary logistic regression was used to determine the statistical association between cold exposure and airway symptoms. Results For currently working subjects (N = 8740), reporting any occupational cold exposure was associated to wheeze (OR 1.3; 95% CI 1.1–1.4); chronic cough (OR 1.2; 95% CI 1.1–1.4); and productive cough (OR 1.3; 95% CI 1.1–1.4), after adjusting for gender, age, body mass index, daily smoking, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Leisure-time cold exposure was not significantly associated to reporting airway symptoms. Conclusions Occupational cold exposure was an independent predictor of airway symptoms in northern Sweden. Therefore, a structured risk assessment regarding cold exposure could be considered for inclusion in the Swedish workplace legislation.

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