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Article describes the Arctic Counsel as a “high-level international intergovernmental forum founded by the Ottawa Declaration of 1996” and examines its role in supporting and contributing to international laws that pertain to the arctic.

Puts forward proposals to amend and enhance the Arctic Council's role.

Comments on the AILI project which is Indigenous-initiated and driven. Excerpt from Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the 17th FEL Conference edited by Mary Jane Norris, Erik Anonby, Maire-Okile Junker, Nicholas Ostler and Donna Patrick. .

Looks at historical understandings of security and the Arctic: traditional, environmental, and human. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.

Discusses the positive and negative repercussions that arise as a result of tourism.

Argues that Canada should lead governance reform in the Arctic due to unique location within the Circumpolar World.

Statistical data from Health Transitions in Arctic Populations used to compile statistical tables on all circumpolar countries and their northern regions outlining health status, determinants and healthcare.

Differences in findings among countries studied may be partially accounted for by regional dietary preferences.

Describes and compares health care systems in the northern regions of the Arctic countries.

Conference highlighted the importance of diversity in gender, social realities, education, economics and cooperation between public and private sectors and living conditions of men and women in the Circumpolar North.

Provides brief overview of care practices in Canada, circumpolar countries, and Nunavut and reports results of needs assessment conducted.

Study found that international research on climate sensitive infectious disease and zoonotic infections is impeded by incompatible reporting systems and differences in regulation; advises international standardization.

Discusses various telehealth programs and upcoming articles in special issue.

Reports that the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) recommends the consumption of traditional Arctic food to continue despite some environmental contamination of the food.

Report compares dietary guidelines in the Arctic countries of North America and the Nordic countries.

Comments on the Arctic Council, inaugurated to facilitate circumpolar cooperation on sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic.

Book review of: Gender, Culture and Northern Fisheries edited by Joanna Kafarowski.

Excerpt from AHDR: Arctic Human Development Report .

Book review of: Globalization and the Circumpolar North edited by Lassi Heininen, Chris Southcott.

Information on the Council's composition, procedures and structures.

Looks at disparities in health care practices across circumpolar countries and regions.

Paper reports on field research conducted in reindeer herding areas in Fenno Scandia.

A scoping literature review selected 43 articles published between 2005 and 2016; findings address 4 main themes relating to compromised access to healthcare: (1) the influence of physical geography, (2) healthcare provider-related barriers, (3) the importance of culture and language and (4) the impact of systemic factors.

Looks at the Arctic holding 22 per cent of the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable, conventional oil and natural gas resources.

Looks at ineffective layers of arctic governance which includes local governments, central governments, indigenous councils and the international Arctic Council.

Looked at a total of 21 municipalities, some of which have significant Sami populations.

Reports on the progress of the International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) system of invasive bacterial diseases since its founding in 1998.

Comments on international cooperation in Arctic research is needed for weather, oceanography, geology in the Arctic and Subarctic, Arctic fishes, and freshwater fauna and floras, and archeological investigates and linguistic studies.

"This compendium includes ten reports outlining baccalaureate level nursing programs, delivered in all corners of the Circumpolar North, that have unique but often analogous challenges and contexts".

Explores the unique nature of Inuit political engagement in the Arctic using spatial and policy analysis. Chapter from Arctic Yearbook 2012 edited by Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot, Joël Plouffe.

Looks at the possibility of regional and ethnic differences in mental health and the link between substance use, suicide rate and mental health of youth in the Arctic.

Describes the peoples of the North, making distinctions between settlement patterns, migration, and assimilation of different ethnic groups. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

Discusses three national museums in Stockholm with different but interconnected collections. Paper from Conference Current Issues in European Cultural Studies organized by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, 2011.

Looks at the effectiveness of environmental assessments in the north and addresses research gaps.

Comparative Literature Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.

Book review of: Northscapes by Dolly Jørgensen, Sverker Sörlin. Entire book review section on one pdf. Read this review scroll to p. 68.

Comments on the impact of climate change on the health of Arctic inhabitants and looks at ways of assessing the interface between human-animal-environment.

One hundred and forty-two participants from seven Arctic nations described the current status of water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH), including access to services, notification requirements for water-related infectious diseases, and examples of environmental-change events which impacted provision of services.

Focuses on patterns and trends of cancer incidence.

Looks at projects running since 1996 including teleradiology, teleobstertrics, telepsychiatry, maritime telemedicine, telemedicine in surgery, telepathology and telemedicine in surgery.

Discusses historical contact between the Sami people and Icelanders.

Looks at access, variety, quality and equity in health care after the consolidation of healthcare services in Fjallabygoo.