Barriers islands in the Arctic make up nearly a quarter of the world's barrier islands, and they're more vulnerable to climate change than islands anywhere else in the world. The reason: melting of sea ice and the permafrost that buffers Arctic islands from waves have left them susceptible to constant pounding from storms.
Homelessness Defined. Homelessness is a temporary condition that people fall into when they cannot afford to pay for a place to live, or when their current home is unsafe or unstable.
Studies in the 1950s and 1960s of skid row residents (the old homeless) often defined homeless ness in terms of personal ties and relationships to the. broader society; homelessness was not seen primarily as a housing problem. (Bahr 1973, Bahr & Garrett, 1976). Contemporary definitions of homelessÂ­.