ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the atlas collaborative process by discussing the commonalities and differences in facilitating the projects in different Arctic contexts. It argues that anthropology plays a central role in facilitating community-based adaptation to unprecedented change, most notably, the local effects of climate change. Arctic research is one arena that increasingly uses such a holistic and human-inclusive approach to understanding change by downscaling to the community level and engaging communities in the documentation and monitoring process. By working in a community collaborative partnership to develop intranet atlases of community change, inhabitants can monitor change, develop plans of action, and move forward with appropriate responses. The projects worked with a variety of tools to share and integrate knowledge within and between the communities and their relevant stakeholders. Like the variation found across the Arctic contexts, the combination of such tools also varied and was a factor in each community's integration and representation of relevant knowledge systems that bolster agency.
