Negotiating trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and mass tourism amongst guides on Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Andersen, Trine C.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; The Guides; Climate change; Polar Record
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27543; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247422000080

This paper investigates how guides on Svalbard make sense of their relations to the environment whilst working with mass tourism. The Arctic is heating up more rapidly than any other part of the world, and over the last 30 years the effect of climate change has had a large impact on the environment...