Investigations of the Long Term Sustainability of Human Ecodynamic Systems in Northern Iceland

• Main Author: Astrid Ogilvie
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: Myvatn, Iceland, Sustainability, Human Ecodynamics; Iceland; Investigations of the Long Term Sustainability of Human Ecodynamic Systems in Northern Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2JQ0SW6F

This project has centered on the Lake Myvatn area of northeastern Iceland. In spite of severe erosion problems, the Myvatn economy has been largely sustainable since the time when Iceland was first settled in the late ninth century. Until the early part of the twentieth century, the inhabitants of t...