Impacts of past and future coastal changes on the Yukon coast — threats for cultural sites, infrastructure, and travel routes

Yukon’s Beaufort coast, Canada, is a highly dynamic landscape. Cultural sites, infrastructure, and travel routes used by the local population are particularly vulnerable to coastal erosion. To assess threats to these phenomena, rates of shoreline change for a 210 km length of the coast were analyzed...

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Main Authors: Anna M. Irrgang, Hugues Lantuit, Richard R. Gordon, Ashley Piskor, Gavin K. Manson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019-06-01
Series:Arctic Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2017-0041