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Arctic sustainability research: toward a new agenda
- Source :
- Polar Geography. 39:165-178
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- The Arctic is among the world’s regions most affected by ongoing and increasing cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, local, regional and national governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples and resources, and to challenges and benefits of impending transformations. The International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) has now transpired three times, most recently in April 2015 with ICARP III. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing concern within the Arctic and beyond it, including in ICARP endeavors. This paper reports some of the key findings of a white paper prepared by an international and interdisciplinary team as part of the ICARP-III process, with support from the International Arctic Science Committee Social and Human Sciences Working Group, the International Arctic Social Sciences Associat...
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Research planning
Economic growth
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Environmental resource management
Human science
Sustainability research
01 natural sciences
The arctic
010601 ecology
White paper
Arctic
Political science
Sustainability
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19390513 and 1088937X
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polar Geography
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........81f4d9731559394a5417c79fb66271af