A sustainable Arctic: Making hard decisions
The Arctic is experiencing substantial increases in human activity in areas ranging from fossil fuel and mineral extraction to transport along Arctic waterways. Such actions may yield new sources of economic benefits and further objectives to promote national defense, yet they may also generate pote...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6c123dd5a78240298f8ee421b08e828c 2023-05-15T14:14:29+02:00 A sustainable Arctic: Making hard decisions Benjamin D. Trump Maja Kadenic Igor Linkov 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 https://doaj.org/article/6c123dd5a78240298f8ee421b08e828c EN eng Taylor & Francis Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 https://doaj.org/toc/1523-0430 https://doaj.org/toc/1938-4246 1523-0430 1938-4246 doi:10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 https://doaj.org/article/6c123dd5a78240298f8ee421b08e828c Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol 50, Iss 1 (2018) arctic sustainability multicriteria decision analysis arctic environment Environmental sciences GE1-350 Ecology QH540-549.5 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 2022-12-31T09:47:16Z The Arctic is experiencing substantial increases in human activity in areas ranging from fossil fuel and mineral extraction to transport along Arctic waterways. Such actions may yield new sources of economic benefits and further objectives to promote national defense, yet they may also generate potential risks to the Arctic environment. As such, concerns from various stakeholders have been raised regarding how to make Arctic operations better meet sustainability goals and balance defense and economic objectives with environmental degradation. This article describes how decision analytical tools, such as multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), may help identify policies and project proposals that minimize the potential for environmental degradation within a framework of maximizing economic, industrial, and defense objectives. Specifically, MCDA conducts value tradeoffs to assess the utility of various decision alternatives against disparate criteria; for this case, this includes the evaluation of Arctic operation sustainability. This article demonstrates through an example of industrial mining in Greenland how MCDA might serve as a tool to guide uncertain decisions for various Arctic projects, and potentially indicate opportunities to structure such projects to provide greater sustainability for their longer-term operations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarctic and Alpine Research Arctic Arctic Greenland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Greenland Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 50 1 e1438345 |
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The Arctic is experiencing substantial increases in human activity in areas ranging from fossil fuel and mineral extraction to transport along Arctic waterways. Such actions may yield new sources of economic benefits and further objectives to promote national defense, yet they may also generate potential risks to the Arctic environment. As such, concerns from various stakeholders have been raised regarding how to make Arctic operations better meet sustainability goals and balance defense and economic objectives with environmental degradation. This article describes how decision analytical tools, such as multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), may help identify policies and project proposals that minimize the potential for environmental degradation within a framework of maximizing economic, industrial, and defense objectives. Specifically, MCDA conducts value tradeoffs to assess the utility of various decision alternatives against disparate criteria; for this case, this includes the evaluation of Arctic operation sustainability. This article demonstrates through an example of industrial mining in Greenland how MCDA might serve as a tool to guide uncertain decisions for various Arctic projects, and potentially indicate opportunities to structure such projects to provide greater sustainability for their longer-term operations. |
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