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Article: Survey of living conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the indigenous peoples of Chukotka (SLICA). (InfoNorth).
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- September 1, 2002
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ARCTIC SCIENTISTS wrote, in the 1998 Opportunities in Arc tic Research: Final Report for the U.S. National Science Foundation, "For the last few decades the scientific community has expressed concern about the vulnerability of the Arctic and its residents to environmental, social, and economic changes... [Recent] research results show that arctic climate and ecosystems are indeed changing substantially with impacts on people living in and outside the Arctic." The scientists listed as the first key question, "How are the rapid social, political, economic and environmental changes occurring in the Arctic today affecting the people there?" (ARGUS, 1998:3). Delegates to the ...