Sovacool (2026): Climate change interventions at the “top of the world”: exploring risk–risk tradeoffs in Arctic coastal protection and forest carbon removal in Alaska
Benjamin Sovacool, IN: Frontiers in Political Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2026.1695743
Alaska, the largest geographic state in the United States, experiences climate change and global warming two to three times that of the global average, leading to thawing permafrost, wildfires, and more severe storms. However, managing climate interventions in Alaska is riddled with challenges that threaten to create risk–risk tradeoffs. Based on semi-structured expert interviews (N = 24), site visits in Alaska (N = 3), and photography, including within one Indigenous group in the Arctic Circle, this study investigates the concept of risk–risk tradeoffs involved in Arctic climate interventions.