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| | Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The increasing political salience of environmental and conservation issues, together with the increasing articulation of indigenous rights, has led to the emergence of the Arctic as an international political region and the design of several frameworks for collaboration on the environment and sustainable development in the Arctic. |
 | | Various definitions illuminate the fact that understandings of the Arctic are, in part, based on particular scientific, political and disciplinary concerns, and that specific definitional criteria are far too restrictive and cannot always be applied across disciplines. |
 | | Yet, even in three volumes, it is impossible to cover every topic, or to include entries on every town and political figure, every aspect of ecology and environmental change, or every river, mountain range or aspect of human culture. |
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