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Climate Change — Adapting to The Impacts, by Communities in Northern Peripheral Regions
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The Northern Periphery Programme covers a large geographical area and now involves parts of the Member States of Finland, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland) - in cooperation with the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Norway. The programme area has been expanded in the 2007 - 2013 programming period to include western Ireland, Northern Ireland, additional regions in western Norway, and Dumfries and Galloway and North East Moray in Scotland.
The most obvious defining feature of the Northern periphery is its low accessibility. However, while distance to the European core areas implies obvious challenges in terms of European integration, the effects on economic performance are difficult to identify. One may indeed hypothesize that the essential shared geographic feature of the northern periphery is sparsity rather than peripherality. Sparsity implies small labour market areas, which need to specialize in order to be competitive. This specialization implies that northern periphery communities are more vulnerable to change, be them direct climate change impacts or indirectly as economic cycles and fluctuations in world market prices. Adaptation may be difficult, but it will be essential to avoid the collapse of local communities in the periphery.

icon-ppt.png Key characteristics of the Northern Periphery - Erik Gloerson.pps
 
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Project coordinator: UHI Millennium Institute,  Perth College, Crieff Road, Perth, Scotland (UK), PH1 2NX
 Tel: (+)44 1738 877204 • Fax: (+)44 1738 877018 • clive.bowman@perth.uhi.ac.uk
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