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News Article: The costs of Mining in Greenland
This article, in the Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa, discusses the real costs of mines for local communities in Greenland and looks to Canada for experience. Canadian mines in areas…
Read more“Walk the line”: An ethnographic study of the ritual of crossing the Arctic Circle—Case Rovaniemi
This article focuses on tourists’ practices around Arctic Circle landmarks in Rovaniemi. Varnajot, A.. 2019. “Walk the line”: An ethnographic study of the ritual of…
Read moreCosts and benefits of environmental change: Tourism industry’s responses in Arctic Finland
This paper identifies the locally observed changes in the natural and socio-economic environments and aims to analyse the financial costs and benefits to tourism businesses…
Read moreHistoricizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history
The article identifies two main strands in historical work on climate change, both multi-disciplinary: one that looks for it as a driver of historical change…
Read moreSnow and ice in the Cold War – histories of extreme climatic environments
Sörlin, S., Roberts, P..2018. Introduction (Sörlin): Cryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great Acceleration. Chapter 6 (Roberts): An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of Bouvetøya. In ICE AND…
Read moreBook Chapter: A microgeography of authority: Glaciology and climate change at the Tarfala Station
Sörlin, S..2018. A microgeography of authority: Glaciology and climate change at the Tarfala Station, 1945–1980. In Understanding field science institutions. pp 255-285 From the oceans…
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