The Periphery Beyond the Periphery: Arctic Transport in the Blind Spot of Europe
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes how the Arctic region has become a major area of discussion in the political, economic and environmental fields for several years now. This popularity is continuing to show up in an increased number of scientific publications as well as in a substantial circulation of popular books and reports in the public media. In this regard, references to the transportation as a key factor for the Arctic development are abundant. However, the general treatment of transport topics in the Arctic region still neglects some important aspects. First, the treatment of arctic transport is most often related to some restricted issues where transportation is relegated to a background role. These issues concern the security and the militarization (or demilitarization) of the Arctic; the defense of sovereignty and national interests; the development of access to natural resources and the rich economic potential (mining, fisheries, energy) of the circumpolar region; climate change and its impact on the opening of Arctic waters to navigation or international trade, environmental protection and the decontamination of infected arctic areas. Although these issues remain major, the actual treatment of arctic transport masks the concern of integrated transport systems. Beyond the cross-cutting issues, is there a political match plan for the development of an integrated transport network in the Arctic? Second, this popular treatment of transport topics, which by and large focus on spectacular Arctic issues and continue to mobilize national and international entities, seems to show local issues that are much more modest but often constitute a priority for Northerners who really inhabit the polar zone: Access to trap lines / hunting areas, mobile health care and evacuation, East-West connections, rescue services cooperation, small craft safety, adapted snowmobile networks, food safety, cost of transport, risky impact of new transport connections on access to drugs, alcohol, gambling and crime in the far north communities. It is worth mentioning in this paper that apart from Iceland, all Arctic countries have their centers of political decision-making in the “big’’ South far from the circumpolar zone. It may be argued that spectacular development in Arctic cooperation over the past 20 years has helped establish many pan-regional organizations (the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) and its regional matching part, the Barents Regional Council (BRC); the Nordic Atlantic Cooperation (NORA); the Saami Council; the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON)), all which increase the influence and rights of local stakeholders
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".