The governance of protected areas in Greenland: The Resource National Park among conservation and exploitation.

• Main Author: Tommasini, Daniela
• Other Authors: Herrmann, Thora Martina, Thibault, Martin
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2016
• Subjects: Protected areas; The National Park of Greenland; governance and local population; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/19; Social and economic geography; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/20/4; Tourism research; Greenland; Ittoqqortoormiit; Arctic
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/fee619f6-888e-40ed-959a-ca842493b344; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25035-9

A significant part of Greenland has some forms of conservation status, and the National Park, created in 1974 with a surface of 972,000 km2, mainly of inland ice and fjords, is the world’s largest protected area. The National Park has a status of biosphere area under the Man and Biosphere Program (M...