Climate Change in the Arctic and it’s Geopolitical Consequence – The Analysis of the European Union Perspective

ABSTRACT The article presents and briefly analyses the issue of the European Union’s perspective on the problems of the climate change in the Arctic region and its geopolitical consequences. Offering an overview of the main documents in this area, the article concludes that the EU policy towards the...

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Published in:Papers on Global Change IGBP
Main Author: Łuszczuk, Michał
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2011
Subjects:
Ecology
Global and Planetary Change
Geology
Geophysics
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10190-010-0008-3
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/igbp.2011.18.issue-1/v10190-010-0008-3/v10190-010-0008-3.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT The article presents and briefly analyses the issue of the European Union’s perspective on the problems of the climate change in the Arctic region and its geopolitical consequences. Offering an overview of the main documents in this area, the article concludes that the EU policy towards the Arctic is closely related with perceiving the climate change in polar regions not only in terms of new possibilities, but also as a source of new threats for the international environment

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