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Record W4404493234 · doi:10.3389/esss.2024.10117

We Need to Talk About Mining in the Arctic

2024· article· en· W4404493234 on OpenAlex
Anna K. Bidgood

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueEarth Science Systems and Society · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMining and Resource Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArcticThe arcticComputer scienceGeographyData scienceOceanographyGeology

Abstract

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The Arctic encompasses a myriad of ecosystems, transcending borders between nations and cultures. It is home to 4 million people, including numerous Indigenous groups making up around 10% of the population. Although underexplored, it is also host to a variety of geologically diverse mineral deposits that are critical to the production of renewable energy and our ability to achieve our climate goals. However, the impact of climate change on the Arctic is magnified and some of our solutions to climate change have the potential to have negative local impacts. Furthermore, the history of mining in the Arctic raises understandable concerns as to whether or not we should be exploring and mining in the Arctic. This article discusses the interplay between the environment, people and development in the Arctic, with a specific focus on the history of exploration and mining in the region. We pose questions such as: “How do we balance the global need for minerals with environmental and social concerns around resource extraction?”, and “can we envisage a future for mining in the Arctic which ensures long-term sustainability, environmental stewardship and Indigenous wellbeing and collaboration?” The answer to some of these questions might lie in examples of more successful resource development in the Arctic, which include Indigenous benefit agreements, braided knowledge systems and shared ownership projects. It is clear that only by incorporating a diversity of voices and partnerships, and challenging business as usual in the Arctic, can we begin to conceive of potential solutions for achieving a just transition.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.622
Threshold uncertainty score0.358

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it