Climate Change and Sustainable Living in Remote Communities
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چکیده
Climate warming in the Circumpolar World inflicts the greatest impact on the potential for sustainable living in remote northern communities. Attaining sustainable living is a process of reducing dependencies on outside influence for the supply of goods and services in all aspects of community life, and requires entrepreneurial action at the community level. The author builds on two prior publications, Malcolm 2010 [1] and Malcolm 2013 [2] to study the adaptation challenge, including entrepreneurism as a lead-in to policy innovation in both public and private sectors. Emphasis is placed on engineering best practices in the Arctic from a Canadian perspective. Keywords— climate; warming; circumpolar; remote; communities; permafrost; sustainable; dependency; methane; extreme; weather
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