A Review of Foreign Arctic Research Based on ScienceDirect Database (2007—2021)

Abstract

With the increasing melting of Arctic sea ice, the importance of studying Arctic issues is becoming more and more prominent. By using ScienceDirect database as the main search scope, the authors systematically combed foreign literature on Arctic issues from 2007 to 2021, and analyzed the research status of foreign Arctic issues from four aspects: Arctic routing, economy, politics and environment. It was concluded that the future research on Arctic routing would focus on the operation mode; The research on Arctic economic issues would focus on regional economy and industry development; The research on Arctic politics would still focus on how to cooperate in the governance of the Arctic. Although there will be more qualitative and descriptive analyses in current research on Arctic politics, quantitative analysis and theoretical innovation would be increased in the future; Research on Arctic environmental issues will focus on the balance between economic development and environmental protection in the Arctic, and further pay attention to the sustainable development of the Arctic.

Keywords

• arctic
• arctic issues
• arctic routing
• arctic politics
• arctic environment