Sustainability in the Arctic

Abstract

“Arctic-FROST: Arctic FRontiers of SusTainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and Development in the Changing North” is a project funded by the National Science Foundation. This Evening at Egan features short presentations by members of the Arctic- FROST Research Network. Arctic-FROST is based at the ARCTICenter housed in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa. Arctic-FROST builds international interdisciplinary collaborative network that teams together environmental and social scientists, local educators and community members from all circumpolar countries to enable and mobilize research on sustainable Arctic development, specifically aimed at improving health, human development and well-being of Arctic communities while conserving ecosystem structures, functions and resources under changing climate conditions. It is first U.S.-based circumpolar initiative of this kind and magnitude after the International Polar Year (2007-08). The purpose of the project is to contribute to conceptual, applied and educational aspects of sustainability science about the Arctic and beyond.