This White Paper offers recommendations for EU research priorities on sustainable development in the polar regions, with a focus on managing human impacts, resource use and environmental conservation.
This is one of a series of five White Papers produced by EU-PolarNet, the world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research. The series seeks to identify polar research topics with a clear societal relevance and a specific importance for Europe that could make them suitable for future EU support.
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Project / Strengthening engagement on the roles and functions of wetlands to support sustainable development and resilience in the Arctic.
Project / Understanding the integrated impacts of change in the Arctic with focus on the risk for large shifts in ecosystems services that affect human well-being.
SEI brief / Why are Arctic wetlands so important? This brief discusses why and presents a new project that will recommend ways to preserve these unique environments.
Feature / At the Arctic Council Showcase in Fairbanks, Alaska meeting, SEI presented blueprints to guide policy on resilience in the arctic region.
Project / Strengthening engagement on the roles and functions of wetlands to support sustainable development and resilience in the Arctic.
