climate change is leading to the deposition of substantial amounts of sand and gravel along the coasts of Greenland amid a rapidly growing global demand for these resources.
“We were quite surprised to learn that there was such a high level of local support for exploiting the sand,” Mette Bendixen, first author of the study, said in a media statement. “This work clearly shows how an increasingly globalized Arctic Indigenous population wants to be and should be a part of the decision-making processes when discussing how Arctic communities can adapt to accelerated Arctic changes.
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