Arctic innovators: Training a new generation of leaders

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The public conversation about the Arctic, as reflected in global news coverage, often gets stuck on the dramatic, even dire, new challenges the region—and the rest of the world—face from the warming effects of global climate change. Reports of record-setting low sea ice levels that endanger the iconic Arctic symbol, the polar bear, may overshadow threats to the traditions and livelihoods of indigenous people in remote parts of the Arctic. Far too little attention is focused on development of possible solutions to the myriad practical, policy and political problems ahead, particularly the impact on some four million people living in eight nations inside the Arctic Circle.