Arctic Perspective

Author : Neloy Khare
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000545319

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Climate Change in the Arctic by Neloy Khare Pdf

The Arctic, in the polar region, the northernmost part of Earth, is the hotspot for climate change assessments and the sensitive barometer of global climate variability. This book includes the scientific observations in the Arctic region’s climate and the results obtained by scientists at the Indian Arctic station Himadri over the past decade. Designed and structured to incorporate multi-dimensional climate change research output, it is a significant contribution toward understanding, among other issues, the role of persistent organic pollutants and mercury, as well as the increase of carbon monoxide during ozone reduction in the Arctic. Features include: Highlights the achievements of climate change research in the Arctic region Includes case studies of scientists in the Arctic and their significant achievements through the Indian research base Himadri Provides a thorough review of palaeoclimate change studies, the impact of climate change on biotic components and the impact of climate change on abiotic components Provides specific details on the study of ozone depletion phenomenon over the Arctic region Covers a wide range of research contributions Details sea ice variability in the context of global warming over the Arctic region Connects seismogenesis with the climate change in the Arctic region This book will be an important read for researchers, students and all interested professionals.

Author : Paul F. J. Wassmann,Dorte Krause-Jensen,Markus A. Janout,Bodil Annikki Bluhm
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889712298

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Towards a Unifying Pan-Arctic Perspective of the Contemporary and Future Arctic Ocean by Paul F. J. Wassmann,Dorte Krause-Jensen,Markus A. Janout,Bodil Annikki Bluhm Pdf

The Topic Editors Paul F. J. Wassmann, dorte Krause-Jensen, Markus A. Janout, and Bodil Annikki Bluhm declare that they are collaborating with pan-arctic community.

Author : P. Whitney Lackenbauer,Adam Lajeunesse,James Manicom,Frédéric Lasserre
Publisher : Beyond Boundaries
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 1552389014

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China's Arctic Ambitions and what They Mean for Canada by P. Whitney Lackenbauer,Adam Lajeunesse,James Manicom,Frédéric Lasserre Pdf

Annotation This title addresses China's ever increasing interest in the Arctic, and in Canada's Far North in particular. It offers a holistic approach to the subject - covering resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and military strategy - to better understand both Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of a greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region. The book draws on extensive research into published Chinese government documentation, secondary source analysis, business and media reports, and the existing academic literature.

Author : Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004324084

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Marine Protected Areas in International Law by Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen Pdf

Marine Protected Areas in International Law – an Arctic perspective by Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen, examines the legal rights and obligations of states under international law using Marine Protected Areas to protect marine biodiversity, with a particular emphasis on the Arctic region.

Author : Michael Bravo,Nicola Triscott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 3775726810

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Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy by Michael Bravo,Nicola Triscott Pdf

Introduction / Michael Bravo with Nicola Triscott -- Critical art and intervention in the technologies of the Arctic / Nicola Triscott -- Building autonomy through experiments in technology and skill / Michael Bravo -- Traveling through layers: Inuit artists appropriate new technologies / Katarina Soukup -- Trails and tales: multiple stories of human movement and modernity / David Turnbull -- Post-Cold War Arctic geopolitics: where are the people and the environment? / Lassi Heininen.

Author : F. Stuart Chapin III,Robert L. Jefferies,James F. Reynolds,Gaius R. Shaver,Josef Svoboda,Ellen W. Chu
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323138420

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Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate by F. Stuart Chapin III,Robert L. Jefferies,James F. Reynolds,Gaius R. Shaver,Josef Svoboda,Ellen W. Chu Pdf

The arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change. This book synthesizes information on the physiological ecology of arctic plants, discusses how physiological processes influence ecosystem processes, and explores how climate warming will affect arctic plants, plant communities, and ecosystem processes. Key Features * Reviews the physiological ecology of arctic plants * Explores biotic controls over community and ecosystems processes * Provides physiological bases for predicting how the Arctic will respond to global climate change

Author : David C. Natcher,Timo Koivurova
Publisher : Routledge Research in Polar Regions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Renewable natural resources
ISBN : 1032000341

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Renewable Economies in the Arctic by David C. Natcher,Timo Koivurova Pdf

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states. The economic development of the Arctic region is witnessing new, innovative trends which hold promise for the sustainable development of the region. This book discusses the emerging forms of renewable economies to understand where intellectual and technological innovations are being made. It draws on the expertise of scholars from across the Arctic and provides the reader with a foundation of knowledge to identify the unique challenges of the region and explore opportunities to unlock the immense potential of renewable resources to boost the region's economy. This book offers a holistic Arctic perspective against the backdrop of prevailing social, economic, and climatic challenges. With critical insights on the economic state of play and the role of renewable resources in the development of the Arctic region, this book will be a vital point of reference for Arctic scholars, communities, and policy makers.

Author : Pauliina Rautio,Elina Stenvall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811331619

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Social, Material and Political Constructs of Arctic Childhoods by Pauliina Rautio,Elina Stenvall Pdf

This book addresses the geopolitical notion of the 'Arctic' through the everyday experiences of children. It explores the Arctic as various materializations that matter to, condition and define childhoods in Nordic countries. Presenting nine thematically very different but theoretically and methodologically coherent studies, it enables readers to gain an in-depth understanding of a selection of recent sociomaterialist, posthumanist and post-anthropocentric research on childhood in the Nordic context. The book offers new ideas and insights as to what matters in children's lives - in Arctic contexts.

Author : Neloy Khare
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128228692

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Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments by Neloy Khare Pdf

Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments: An Integrated Approach from Climate Change Perspectives provides a fully comprehensive overview of the past, present and future outlook for this incredibly diverse and important region. Through a series of contributed chapters, the book explores changes to this environment that are attributed to the effects of climate change. The book explores the current effects climate change has had on Arctic environments and ecosystems, our current understanding of the effects climate change is having, the effects climate change is having on the atmospheric and ocean processes in this region. The Arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change, thus a better understanding is vital. Presents a thorough understanding of the Arctic, it's past, present and future Provides an integrated assessment of the Arctic climate system, recognizing that a true understanding of its functions lies in appreciating the interactions and linkages among its various components Brings together many of the world's leading Arctic researchers to describe this diverse environment and its ecology

Author : Kathrin Keil,Sebastian Knecht
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137508843

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Governing Arctic Change by Kathrin Keil,Sebastian Knecht Pdf

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Leading and emerging scholars in Arctic research investigate the international causes and consequences of contemporary Arctic developments, and assess how both state and non-state actors respond to crucial problems for the global community. Long treated as a remote and isolated region, climate change and economic prospects have put the Arctic at the forefront of political agendas from the local to the global level, and this book tackles the variety of involved actors, institutional politics, relevant policy issues, as well as political imaginaries related to a globalizing Arctic. It covers new institutional forms of various stakeholder engagement on multiple levels, governance strategies to combat climate change that affect the Arctic region sooner and more strongly than other regions, the pros and cons of Arctic resource development for the region and beyond, and local and trans-boundary pollution concerns. Given the growing relevance of the Arctic to international environmental, energy and security politics, the volume helps to explain how the region is governed in times of global nexuses, multi-level politics and multi-stakeholderism.

Author : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849770798

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Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic by E. Carina H. Keskitalo Pdf

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However, despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political and economic governance systems are crucial in shaping a community's capacity to adapt to climate change, these trends are seldom included in assessments. This book addresses this shortcoming by developing a framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment in ?multiple impact? studies (of climate change and globalization) and applying this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use. The book draws upon case studies of forestry and fishing - two of the largest sectors that rely on renewable natural resources - and reindeer herding in the European North. The study represents a bottom-up view, originating with the stakeholders themselves, of the degree to which stakeholders find adaptation to climate change possible and how they evaluate it in relation to their other concerns, notably economic and political ones.Moreover, the approach and research results include features that could be broadly generalized to other geographic areas or sectors characterized by renewable natural resource use.

Author : Alain A. Grenier,Dieter K. Müller
Publisher : PUQ
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01T00:00:00-04:00
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782760533233

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Polar Tourism by Alain A. Grenier,Dieter K. Müller Pdf

The creation of the Nunavik is a major step forward, both for the Province of Quebec and its Inuit population. Not only does it underline the recognition of the Inuit people and their identity but it also stresses the importance of discussing some fundamental issues regarding the emancipation of the Inuit, their empowerment, the development and management of the northern resources of Quebec, and the protection and conservation of the fragile Nordic ecosystems. Rich in culture and scenery, Nunavik has identified tourism as one of the main and best suited avenue for economic development. But before Nunavik can truly enjoy the benefits of a well established tourism “industry”, many challenges need to be met. The development of tourism in a new destination is not only challenging but it requires human efforts, political and economic will over a large amount of time without much guaranties as to what will work or not.It is in this context that in August 2008, the members of the newly created International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN) came to Kangiqsujjuak, Nunavik, to discuss how tourism can play a role in regional development. The collection of articles presented here is the result of the coming together of a group of polar tourism researchers from around the world, who met in Nunavik - the northernmost part of Quebec, to discuss polar tourism as a tool for regional development. Such a book does not claim to address all issues facing the polar destinations. It is nevertheless a base for reflection. Many of the new emerging regions of the circumpolar world, like the Nunavik, are experimenting with new powers and responsibilities.For scientists, this is an excellent time to assist with the experiences that have been well documented from other Northern, Arctic and polar regions. For tourism, this book is meant to offer a range of perspectives on how challenges can be met and how solutions can be implemented for the benefit of all local interests.

Author : Inke Arns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:724274532

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Arctic perspective by Inke Arns Pdf

Author : Graham Huggan,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137588173

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Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North by Graham Huggan,Lars Jensen Pdf

This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines.

Author : Ann Vick-Westgate
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380567

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Nunavik by Ann Vick-Westgate Pdf

"In the pages of this book, you will read of the efforts of many to fearlessly audit the state of education in Nunavik. To diligently seek improvement of an already good system. To fix what is not necessarily broken so that those who come after us will have it even better than we did. The various tensions and differences of opinion are, to me, not contentious at all. The status quo, however good or excellent, is no place to stay. I think all recognize this." - Zebedee Nungak, from the Foreword As a history of the development of self-government in education, Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec provides Native perspectives on formal education in Nunavik while offering readers a unique view into contemporary Inuit society. This book documents the development of education from the arrival of the first traders and missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century through the creation of the Kativik School Board and the evaluation of its operations by the Nunavik Education Task Force in the 1990s. Nunavik takes a detailed look at the complex debate of the Inuit of Northern Quebec about the purposes, achievements, and failures of the public schools in their communities, the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. Participants in these debates included elders who were educated traditionally, their children with a few years of education in mission and government schools, their grandchildren who attended southern high schools or residential schools, and current students and recent graduates of the Kativik schools. Qallunaat (non-Inuit) were also participants, as residents of Nunavik communities, parents of Inuit children, teachers, administrators, and expert consultants. Illustrated with rich historical photographs (many in colour) and maps from the collections of the Avataq Cultural Institute and the Makivik Corporation, Nunavik provides a uniquely Native perspective on school change in indigenous communities.