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This website is concerned with Arctic cultures and environments, with a broad comparative focus on critical issues, problems and opportunities which face the peoples of the Circumpolar North. The aim is to increase understanding and contribute to an enlightened discourse on Arctic issues across the Internet using world. These include the topics of sustainable development and community viability, social and environmental policy and contemporary human and environmental crises. Special attention is given to the causes and effects of environmental change and economic
globalization, especially the impacts on community viability, flexibility of vulnerable ecosystems and cultural and biological diversity in the North. | ||
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 Mark Nuttall Editor: Issues of SustainabilityMark is a professor of anthropology and HM Tory Chair at the University of Alberta. He received his Ph.D. in Arctic anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. in sociology and social anthropology from the Unviersity of Aberdeen.His work focuses on sustainable development and environmental management issues in the Arctic and North Atlantic, and he has carried out extensive research in Greenland, Alaska, Scotland, and northern Europe. |
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