{"title":"Arctic Challenge for Sustainability II (ArCS II) project","authors":"Motoyoshi Ikeda","doi":"10.1016/j.polar.2025.101268","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>ArCS II (Arctic Challenge for Sustainability II) Project was a Japanese national research project on Arctic change that lasted approximately five years from June 2020 to March 2025. ArCS II was to promote advanced research, such as understanding environmental change in the Arctic region, clarifying its processes, and improving weather forecasting, to realize a sustainable society. The project assessed the impact of significant environmental changes in the Arctic on human society, including Japan, and provided stakeholders with basic scientific knowledge for legal and policy responses to rule-making in the Arctic, to realize the results of this research in society. Research subjects ranged from natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences, engineering, and international law and policy. This special issue introduces the activities and achievements of ArCS II through nine review articles covering a wide range of fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20316,"journal":{"name":"Polar Science","volume":"45 ","pages":"Article 101268"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polar Science","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873965225001057","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/9/8 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ArCS II (Arctic Challenge for Sustainability II) Project was a Japanese national research project on Arctic change that lasted approximately five years from June 2020 to March 2025. ArCS II was to promote advanced research, such as understanding environmental change in the Arctic region, clarifying its processes, and improving weather forecasting, to realize a sustainable society. The project assessed the impact of significant environmental changes in the Arctic on human society, including Japan, and provided stakeholders with basic scientific knowledge for legal and policy responses to rule-making in the Arctic, to realize the results of this research in society. Research subjects ranged from natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences, engineering, and international law and policy. This special issue introduces the activities and achievements of ArCS II through nine review articles covering a wide range of fields.
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Polar Science is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly journal. It is dedicated to publishing original research articles for sciences relating to the polar regions of the Earth and other planets. Polar Science aims to cover 15 disciplines which are listed below; they cover most aspects of physical sciences, geosciences and life sciences, together with engineering and social sciences. Articles should attract the interest of broad polar science communities, and not be limited to the interests of those who work under specific research subjects. Polar Science also has an Open Archive whereby published articles are made freely available from ScienceDirect after an embargo period of 24 months from the date of publication.
- Space and upper atmosphere physics
- Atmospheric science/climatology
- Glaciology
- Oceanography/sea ice studies
- Geology/petrology
- Solid earth geophysics/seismology
- Marine Earth science
- Geomorphology/Cenozoic-Quaternary geology
- Meteoritics
- Terrestrial biology
- Marine biology
- Animal ecology
- Environment
- Polar Engineering
- Humanities and social sciences.