Socio-economic and cultural aspecrs of changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet
! is chapter evaluates the possibility for projecting socio-economic and cultural impacts on Greenland’s society caused directly or indirectly by changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. ! ere are, as yet, no well-documented direct causative links between the conditions for a society dictated by nature,...
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| Format: | Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/socioeconomic-and-cultural-aspecrs-of-changes-in-the-greenland-ice-sheet(8a9020db-8223-4e22-9a9a-08adb4799af5).html https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/70671287/2009_vdBroeke_AMAP.pdf http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~broek112/home.php_files/Publications_MvdB/2009_vdBroeke_AMAP.pdf |
| Summary: | ! is chapter evaluates the possibility for projecting socio-economic and cultural impacts on Greenland’s society caused directly or indirectly by changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. ! ere are, as yet, no well-documented direct causative links between the conditions for a society dictated by nature, and the way a given society develops. ! is chapter describes the development of the modern Greenland society from a historical perspective and introduces a number of speci" c cases that illustrate the propensity for change in a society that is derived from the Inuit culture. ! e Inuit culture has survived at the margin of human existence over a millennium of climate change and external cultural in# uences |
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