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Tom Fries & Kevin Casey
The Arctic This Week 2013:08
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Reads of the Week
If you’re pressed for time this week, we think you’ll find these Reads of the Week deliver the biggest bang for your buck.
First, take a moment and print out this one-page chart of the world’s important icebreakers, courtesy of the US Coast Guard. Hang it up next to your desk; it’s a great reference document and will save you repeated trips to Wikipedia in the midst of your reading/writing.
Three large reports / strategy papers likely to be core documents for future discussion of Arctic environmental policy, strategy and research were released this week. The first, from the US’s National Science and Technology Council, lays out a five-year plan for the most important inter-agency Arctic research efforts to be conducted in the US. The second is the 2013 Yearbook from the UN Environment Programme; it’s got a substantial section focused on potential responses to ongoing changes in the Arctic. The last, which will require some Google translating if you don’t read Russian, covers Russia’s strategy for development of its Arctic region until 2020.
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