Conception of man and the preservation of his health in circumpolar regions.

The preservation of human health in polar and circumpolar regions depends mainly on the strategy for future development of these regions. The consequences of human intervention into northern ecology are irreversible, as in the case of the greenhouse effect, the industrial and atomic pollution of polar nature, the tundra devastation, the destruction of northern flora and fauna etc. The ongoing creation of large industrial population centres in the North by means of newcomers is to be stopped. Polar regions are to be used for biospheric reservation and tourist sanitary zones, to preserve specific flora and fauna, to provide the rhythms and customs necessary to survive in extreme climatic and geophysical conditions of high latitudes. The program for securing man's survival in circumpolar regions should comprise several stages of practical measures to provide necessary resources and to combine international efforts. The preservation of man's health must be based on the understanding of the interrelation between health and biospheric processes and the assessment of the role of human intervention into polar ecology. A program facilitating the preservation of human health and survival in the North and in the Antarctic should be initiated.