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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #181 The Foundations of a New Arctic
Description: When picturing the Arctic, people from warmer latitudes are likely to imagine frozen tundra and lonely steppe. Add global warming to this and the vision shifts to melting ice caps and desperate fauna.
But the Arctic is much more than that. It is a region of community and a land of opportunity. With immense fisheries forming the backbone of its blue economy, and renewable resources in abundance, it is one of the truly under-utilised regions of the planet.
But today this opportunity may finally be realised. Armed with a new appreciation for the traditional knowledge...