title: A call for urgent monitoring of food and water security based on relevant indicators for the Arctic.
abstract: This perspective paper argues for an urgent need to monitor a set of 12 concrete, measurable indicators of food and water security in the Arctic over time. Such a quantitative indicator approach may be viewed as representing a reductionist rather than a holistic perspective, but is nevertheless necessary for actually knowing what reality aspects to monitor in order to accurately understand, quantify, and be able to project critical changes to food and water security of both indigenous and non-indigenous people in the Arctic. More relevant indicators may be developed in the future, taking us further toward reconciliation between reductionist and holistic approaches to change assessment and understanding. However, the potential of such further development to improved holistic change assessment is not an argument not to urgently start to monitor and quantify the changes in food and water security indicators that are immediately available and adequate for the Arctic context.
authors.affiliation: Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, lena.nilsson@nutrires.umu.se.
authors.forename: Lena Maria
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.forename: Georgia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Destouni
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berner
authors.forename: Alexey A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dudarev
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mulvad
authors.forename: Jon Oyvind
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Odland
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parkinson
authors.forename: Constantine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tikhonov
authors.forename: Arja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rautio
authors.forename: Birgitta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Evengård
mesh_terms: D001110:Arctic Regions; D057231:Climate Change; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005523:Food Supply; D014881:Water Supply
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