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The changing Arctic climate has opened up business and economic opportunities in everything from resource development to shipping.
Erica Dingman, fellow at the World Policy Institute and director of the their Arctic in Context program. (Courtesy Erica Dingman)
Arctic tourism is also becoming an increasingly lucrative as interest grows in this remote part of the world.
Local Arctic communities can certainly benefit economically from this growing industry. But a new blog, titled The Price of “Discovering” the Arctic – Part I by Gianna De Filippis, and posted on the World Policy Institute website this week, suggests more attention should be paid to the environmental and social impacts of Arctic tourism.
To find out more about some of these issues, Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn spoke with Erica Dingman, a fellow at the World Policy Institute and director of the their Arctic in Context program:
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