Место издания:The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research Longyearbyen, Svalbard
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Аннотация:The report combines insights into the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ), achieved during the PhD/Postdoctoral
Summer School organized by the Norwegian Academy for Polar Research (NVP) in Longyearbyen.
This report presents the conclusions from the summer school lectures and discussions. We summarize
our gained knowledge about different properties of the MIZ, related processes and their implications
for economic activities and Arctic governance. We focus on an interdisciplinary approach to understand
the MIZ, to highlight that the occurring Arctic change has potentially profound implications
for both the natural environment and human activities. The report discusses the MIZ from natural
sciences’ perspective and focuses on its properties. Additionally, the relations of the MIZ with human
activities and governance is also addressed.
We draw on our own (participants) conclusions about how the gained knowledge sheds the new light
on our perceptions about future tourism development within the MIZ, as a case study, which was not
studied in detail so far. Tourism is a fast-growing industry in the Arctic that requires an adequate understanding
of the fast changing and unpredictable MIZ, in order to ensure sustainable development
of the region. The relations between the MIZ and tourism are studied in the contexts of natural and
built environment, infrastructure development, oil and gas exploration, shipping activities, management
and law regulations. It is concluded that tourism in the MIZ should be studied as a complex
discipline, which takes into account natural and anthropogenic values and vulnerabilities of the MIZ,
as well as challenges and opportunities caused by climate change and technology development.