Nauki społeczne w programie badań Dalekiej Północy

Abstrakt

High North is undergoing rapid changes. Climate change influences the environment which in turn brings about serious consequences to the life of inhabitants of that region, starting with transport and ending with their daily activities which used to focus on simple survival. These alterations bring forth several difficult queries about current and future challenges, as well as limits of probable risk taking. It is hardly surprising since we are facing possible events which might cause serious political, social, economic and cultural disruptions for individuals and whole communities inhabiting those areas.With view to minimize potential and irreparable losses, as well as the emerging sources of probable conflicts in various fields, it is of vital importance that the currently reigning supreme research in the broadly understood natural sciences be supplemented by social sciences as soon as possible. The point is to make natural and social paths of changes in the North become the subject of comprehensive scientific and scholarly research.