Dylan G. Clark

Retail food sales in Nunavut, Canada not impacted by short-term weather-related inaccessibility of trails used for Inuit subsistence harvesting

Sappho Z. Gilbert, James D. Ford, Dylan G. Clark, Lindsay Turner et autres

Inuit have long utilized trail networks for subsistence harvest. Fueled by climate change, increasingly volatile environmental and weather conditions in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut have made these routes less reliable and more dangerous-jeopardizing availability of traditional foods. Qualitative research indicates …

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Climate disaster effects on acute health care: a case study and model of the 2021 heatwave in British Columbia, Canada

Dylan G. Clark, Kevin Liang, Ivy Cheng, James D. Ford et autres

BACKGROUND: Acute health-care systems are a final layer of protection against growing climate impacts on population health. Climate disasters over the past decade have resulted in surges of patients seeking emergency care when preventive measures fall short. We aimed to understand how …

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Climate change, mass casualty incidents, and emergency response in the Arctic

Ishfaq Hussain Malik, James D. Ford, Dylan G. Clark, Tristan Pearce

Abstract Acute emergencies have been neglected in efforts to understand and respond to the transformational climatic changes underway in the Arctic. Across the circumpolar north, social-technological changes, extreme weather, and changing ice conditions threaten lives and infrastructure, increasing the risk of mass …

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Re-conceptualizing the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’

James D. Ford, Santiago Clerici, Dylan G. Clark, Robbert Biesbroek et autres

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Weather-related inaccessibility of trails used by Inuit subsistence harvesters does not significantly influence retail food sales in Nunavut, Canada

Sappho Z. Gilbert, James D. Ford, Dylan G. Clark, Lindsay Turner et autres

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Extreme heat impacts on acute care: Examining emergency department visits and hospital admissions during the 2021 British Columbia heatwave

Dylan G. Clark, Elise H. Jackson, Corinne M. Hohl, Kevin Liang

Introduction: Emergency department (E.D.) visits and hospitalization patterns shifted dramatically during the 2021 extreme heat event (EHE) across the Greater Vancouver Area of southern British Columbia, Canada. Methods: =18,624) between June 4th, 2021, and July 29th, 2021, using data from two administrative …

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Heatstroke presentations to urban hospitals during BC’s extreme heat event: lessons for the future

Kira Gossack‐Keenan, David Seonguk Yeom, Josephine Kanu, Jeffrey P. Hau et autres

BACKGROUND: Climate change is leading to more extreme heat events in temperate climates that typically have low levels of preparedness. Our objective was to describe the characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of adults presenting to hospitals with heatstroke during BC's 2021 heat dome. …

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Projected decrease in trail access in the Arctic

James D. Ford, Dylan G. Clark, Luke Copland, Tristan Pearce et autres

Transportation systems in northern Canada are highly sensitive to climate change. We project how access to semi-permanent trails on land, water, and sea ice might change this century in Inuit Nunangat (the Inuit homeland in northern Canada), using CMIP6 projections coupled with …

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Climate Impact Assessments in British Columbia: Climate Model Selection and Data Analysis Methods

Dylan G. Clark

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Monitoring the dynamic vulnerability of an Arctic subsistence food system to climate change: The case of Ulukhaktok, NT

Angus Naylor, James D. Ford, Tristan Pearce, David Fawcett et autres

Vulnerability to climate change is highly dynamic, varying between and within communities over different timescales. This paper draws upon complex adaptive systems thinking to develop an approach for capturing, understanding, and monitoring climate vulnerability in a case study from northern Canada, focusing …

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A carbon footprint study of the Canadian medical residency interview tour

Kevin Liang, Jessica Q. Dawson, Matei D. Stoian, Dylan G. Clark et autres

BACKGROUND: Each spring, thousands of Canadian medical students travel across the country to interview for residency positions, a process known as the CaRMS tour. Despite the large scale of travel, the CaRMS tour has received little environmental scrutiny. PURPOSE: To estimate the …

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Preparing for the impacts of climate change along Canada's Arctic coast: The importance of search and rescue

James D. Ford, Dylan G. Clark

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