Backyard of the Rich North

The Arctic zone is full of controversies, unknowns, contrasts, and challenges. The following example is enlightening. Saudi Arabia is a country that has been considered to have almost unlimited possibilities because of its enormous oil earnings. The country has US$60 thousand million purchasing power parity oil income each year for its mere 22 million inhabitants. Astonishingly, the Arctic zone's income from oil, gas, and minerals is at least as large as that of Saudi Arabia, modestly estimated, but the Arctic has less than 4 million people. Most money, however, flows away from the tundra, yet social and environmental problems remain there. A part of the side effect of consuming these resources-largely fossil fuels-returns to the Arctic in the form of greenhouse warming and all its consequences. The Arctic zone now warms at approximately double the rate of the world average.

Arctic · Arctic ecology · Earnings · Economics · Fossil fuel · Geography · Natural resource economics · Purchasing power · Purchasing power parity · The arctic · Tundra · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography

• Mental health, substance use and suicidal behaviour among young indigenous people in the Arctic

  Open Access•Venla Lehti, Solja Niemelä et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2009

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• Challenges to Adaptation in Northernmost Europe as a Result of Global Climate Change

  Open Access•Christina Nilsson, Christer Nilsson et al.•AMBIO•2010

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