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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ftuniaarhuspubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/569d017d-b5c1-42af-8a5c-49ad63036318 2023-10-09T21:47:17+02:00 A sustainable Arctic:Making hard decisions Trump, Benjamin D. Kadenic, Maja Linkov, Igor 2018-01-01 https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/a-sustainable-arctic(569d017d-b5c1-42af-8a5c-49ad63036318).html https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055248037&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Trump , B D , Kadenic , M & Linkov , I 2018 , ' A sustainable Arctic : Making hard decisions ' , Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research , vol. 50 , no. 1 , e1438345 . https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 Arctic environment Arctic sustainability multicriteria decision analysis article 2018 ftuniaarhuspubl https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 2023-09-13T22:58:40Z 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 Aarhus University: Research 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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Trump , B D , Kadenic , M & Linkov , I 2018 , ' A sustainable Arctic : Making hard decisions ' , Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research , vol. 50 , no. 1 , e1438345 . https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2018.1438345 |
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