Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Povoroznyuk, Olga, Vincent, Warwick F., Schweitzer, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: roads; railways; climate change; development; permafrost landscapes; Indigenous communities; environmental and social impact assessment; circumpolar North; Baffin Island; Baffin; Climate change; Hudson Bay; Inuvik; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0033

Land-based transport corridors and related infrastructure are increasingly extending into and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing large-scale cumulative changes to northern socio-ecological systems. These changes include the increased mobility of peopl...