The identification and preservation of cultural landscapes worthy of protection is a
challenging task, as their significance is often not immediately apparent. Analyzing the …

This article reports findings from two research projects that aimed to understand the
vulnerabilities of cultural heritage sites in Svalbard and investigated factors that influence …

While tourism is frequently heralded as a key agent of opportunity and change in the Arctic,
transformative change in the polar regions comes with a great deal of uncertainty. The …

Arctic human settlements experience formidable challenges from accelerating climate
change and environmental transformations. While these towns have demonstrated adaptive …

The Arctic is a major hot spot in the exposure to anthropogenic climate change, with
warming there taking place four times faster than the global average (Rantanen et al., 2022) …

Norway is famous for its glaciers which are often utilized for recreational and tourist
activities. The companies that run tourist activities on glaciers, therefore, must deal with the …

Global warming affects the Earth system in complex ways, often preventing a functional
understanding of the underlying processes. Disentangling these processes between abiotic …

Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, is experiencing rapid
tourism growth. Simultaneously, the archipelago is undergoing dramatic environmental and …

The European Arctic, which includes the Svalbard archipelago, is situated in one of the
areas showing most notable changes due to global warming and associated cascade …

As the space industry is rapidly privatized and countries once again have their eyes set on
the moon and beyond, humanity is getting closer and closer to the days where a colony on …