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and fossil resources – were the main feature of many
talks during the Academy. Moreover, questions relating
to the management and governance of resource
development as well as the
practices and pitfalls of sharing the revenues of
resource utilization were addressed and discussed by
many speakers. Others highlighted the importance of
economic activity and development not based (solely)
on natural resources or on nature and knowledge as
resources in their own right. An overarching theme
underpinning all debates related to resource-driven
developments in northern areas was the irreconcilable
incompatibility between increasing industrial activity
based on mass-scale utilization of finite resources and
the idea(l) of sustainable development in the environmentally and culturally unique Arctic region,
where ev \