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Policy Analysis

Safeguarding the Arctic

By Scott Vaughan on November 5, 2013

IISD President Scott Vaughan comments on the relationship between sustainable development and emerging sovereignty issues in the Arctic.

He suggests that it is critical to strike a balance between the evolving opportunities for economic development and the rights of Canada's Aboriginal peoples, while at the same time building in protections for the region's fragile ecosystem.

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