More novel are the sections that ask questions about the «hidden Arctic,» as in «what we may find now that we have access to new areas, new technologies,» says Pfirman, «but also what we may lose forever»; the «managed Arctic» of unprecedented expansion in the land and other resources available to human inhabitants of the region; and the «undetermined Arctic» of uneven research funding, spotty
monitoring tools, and other barriers that
complicate efforts to study and understand the changes.