The High North: Opportunities and Barriers of Economic Dimension
The High North: Opportunities and Barriers of Economic Dimension
Author(s): Ryszard CzarnySubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Katedra politológie
Keywords: arctic; exploitation of natural resources; growing environmental and human cost; mixed economy
Summary/Abstract: The economies of the High North have a series of common features which differentiate them from the economies of the current world. It is a region of changes experiencing the consequences of global process and implications of competitions for access to not only current but the future potential resources where the increased global expectations as regards exploaration of the Arctic´s natural resources on the industrial scale will be accompanied by the growing environmental and human cost.
Journal: Slovenská politologická revue
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 237-254
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English