Nordic Perspectives On The Responsible Development Of The Arctic Pathways To Action

Author : Douglas C. Nord
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030523244

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Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action by Douglas C. Nord Pdf

This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today’s Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region. It focuses its attention on the recent efforts of the Nordic community to create specialized Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research in order to facilitate this process of scientific inquiry and policy articulation. The volume seeks to describe both the steps that lead to this decision and the manner in which this undertaking as evolved. The work highlights the research efforts of the four Centers and their investigations of a variety of issues including those related to ecosystem and wildlife management, the revitalization resource dependent communities, the emergence of new climate-born diseases and the development of adequate modeling techniques to assist northern communities in their efforts at adaptation and resilience building. Major discoveries and insights arising from these and other efforts are detailed and possible policy implications considered. The book also focuses attention on the challenges of creating and supporting multidisciplinary teams of researchers to investigate such concerns and the methods and means for facilitating their collaboration and the integration of their findings to form new and useful perspectives on the nature of change in the contemporary Arctic. It also provides helpful consideration and examples of how local and indigenous communities can be engaged in the co-production of knowledge regarding the region. The volume discusses how such research findings can be best communicated and shared between scientists, policymakers and northern residents. It considers the challenges of building common concern not just among different research disciplines but also between bureaucracies and the public. Only when this bridge-building effort is undertaken can true pathways to action be established.

Author : Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009117999

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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities by Sverker Sörlin Pdf

For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous peoples. This book examines the growing Arctic resource dilemma. It explores the 'new extractivist paradigm' that posits transitioning the region's long-standing role of delivering minerals, fossil energy, and marine resources to one providing rare earth elements, renewable power, wilderness tourism, and scientific knowledge about climate change. With chapters from a global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, new opportunities and their implications for Arctic communities and landscapes are discussed, alongside the pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.

Author : Marjo Lindroth,Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen,Monica Tennberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031111204

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Critical Studies of the Arctic by Marjo Lindroth,Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen,Monica Tennberg Pdf

This book is a pioneering effort in critical Arctic studies. The contributions identify and investigate some of the blind spots in human development in the Arctic that research in the social sciences had yet to broach. To this end, the authors tap a variety of critical approaches in fields spanning aesthetics, affect theory, biopolitics, critical geopolitics, Indigenous archaeology, intersectionality, legal anthropology, moral economy, narrative studies, neoliberal governmentality, queer studies and socio-legal studies. The chapters probe topics such as representations of the Arctic in contemporary art, the role of affects in postcolonial Greenland, Canada’s Arctic policies and China’s engagement with the Arctic. The book provides a rich knowledge base for researchers in Arctic social sciences and offers an absorbing textbook for students interested in Arctic issues.

Author : Tim Horstkotte,Øystein Holand,Jouko Kumpula,Jon Moen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000593402

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Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change by Tim Horstkotte,Øystein Holand,Jouko Kumpula,Jon Moen Pdf

This volume offers a holistic understanding of the environmental and societal challenges that affect reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia today. Reindeer husbandry is a livelihood with a long traditional heritage and cultural importance. Like many other pastoral societies, reindeer herders are confronted with significant challenges. Covering Norway, Sweden and Finland – three countries with many differences and similarities – this volume examines how reindeer husbandry is affected by and responds to global environmental change and resource extraction in boreal and arctic social-ecological systems. Beginning with an historical overview of reindeer husbandry, the volume analyses the realities of the present from different perspectives and disciplines. Genetics, behavioural ecology of reindeer, other forms of land use, pastoralists’ norms and knowledge, bio-economy and governance structures all set the stage for the complex internal and externally imposed dynamics within reindeer husbandry. In-depth analyses are devoted to particularly urgent challenges, such as land-use conflicts, climate change and predation, identified as having a high potential to shape the future pathways of the pastoral identity and productivity. These futures, with their risks and opportunities, are explored in the final section, offering a synthesis of the comparative approach between the three countries that runs as a recurring theme through the book. With its richness and depth, this volume contributes significantly to the understanding of the substantial impacts on pastoralist communities in northernmost Europe today, while highlighting viable pathways to maintaining reindeer husbandry for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of both the natural and social sciences who work on natural resource management, global environmental change, pastoralism, ecology, social-ecological systems, rangeland management and Indigenous studies.

Author : Morten Tryland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030878535

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Arctic One Health by Morten Tryland Pdf

This multidisciplinary book discusses the manifold challenges arctic marine and terrestrial wildlife, ecosystems and people face these times. Major health threats caused by the consequences of climate change, environmental pollution and increasing tourism in northern regions around the globe are explored. The most common infectious diseases in wild and domesticated arctic animals are reviewed and the impact they could have on circumpolar ecosystems as well as on the lives of arctic people are profoundly discussed. Moreover, the book reviews arctic hunting, herding and food conservation strategies and introduces veterinary medicine in remote indigenous communities. "Arctic One Health" is authored by experts based in arctic regions spanning from North America over Europe to Asia to cover a broad range of topics and perspectives. The book addresses researchers in Veterinary Medicine, Ecology, Microbiology and Anthropology. The book contributes towards achieving the UN Sustainable Developmental Goals, in particular SDG 15, Life on Land.

Author : Rita Sørly,Tony Ghaye,Bård Kårtveit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000475852

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Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions by Rita Sørly,Tony Ghaye,Bård Kårtveit Pdf

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges. Polar regions are changing rapidly. These changes will dramatically effect ecosystems, economy, people, communities and their interdependencies. Given this, the stories being told about lives and livelihood development are changing also. This book is the first of its kind to curate stories about opportunity and responsibility, tensions and contradictions, un/ethical action, resilience, adaptability and sustainability, all within the shifting geopolitics of the north. The book looks at change and sustainability through multidisciplinary and empirically based work, drawing on case studies from Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Canada, Finland and Northwest Russia, with a notable focus on indigenous peoples. Chapters touch on topics as wide ranging as reindeer herding, mental health, climate change, land-use conflicts and sustainable business. The volume asks whose voices are being heard, who benefits, how particular changes affect people’s sense of community and longstanding and cherished values plus livelihood practices and what are the environmental, economic and social impacts of contemporary and future oriented changes with regard to issues of sustainability? This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability studies, sustainable development, environmental sociology, indigenous studies and environmental anthropology.

Author : Manju Singh,Purva Bhatt,Wafa Singh,Kumar Sambhav Pareek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000893113

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Community Engagement in Higher Education by Manju Singh,Purva Bhatt,Wafa Singh,Kumar Sambhav Pareek Pdf

This book explores the finer nuances of community engagement in Indian higher education, ranging from theory to practice. It contextualizes the concept and practice of community engagement in the contemporary context, capturing global experiences, insights and varied standpoints. The volume also identifies gaps present in the system and recommends solutions for the successful implementation and scaling up of the practice of community engagement not only in India but also at the global level. It also brings to the forefront; opinions, perspectives and experiences of stellar women and their valuable scholarship with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the field of knowledge production on community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers and researchers of education, higher education and sociology of education. It will also be useful for academicians, think tanks, higher education administration, policymakers, civil society organizations, higher education institutions and those interested in the study of community engagement.

Author : Adrian Franklin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000992014

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The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies by Adrian Franklin Pdf

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.

Author : Olga Ulturgasheva,Barbara Bodenhorn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781800735941

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Risky Futures by Olga Ulturgasheva,Barbara Bodenhorn Pdf

The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.

Author : Charles Travis,Deborah P. Dixon,Luke Bergmann,Robert Legg,Arlene Crampsie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000635843

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Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities by Charles Travis,Deborah P. Dixon,Luke Bergmann,Robert Legg,Arlene Crampsie Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields. Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences. This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.

Author : Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000988932

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Anthropology and Climate Change by Susan A. Crate,Mark Nuttall Pdf

In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition’s pioneering focus on anthropology’s burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition’s focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists’ contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts – as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academic institutions to government bodies, international science agencies and foundations, working in interdisciplinary research teams and with community research partners. The contributions to this new edition showcase important new academic research, as well as applied and practicing approaches. They emphasize human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the last decade of community-based and community-driven research and disaster research; provide rich ethnographic insight into worldmaking practices, interventions, and collaborations; and discuss how, and in what ways, anthropologists work in policy areas and engage with regional and global assessments. This new edition is essential for established scholars and for students in anthropology and a range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, as well as for practitioners who engage with anthropological studies of climate change in their work.

Author : Anne Hemkendreis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031397875

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Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics by Anne Hemkendreis Pdf

Author : Berninger, Kati,Lager, Frida,Botnen Holm, Tara,Tynkkynen, Oras,Klein, Richard J.T.,Aall, Carlo,Dristig, Amica,Määttä, Helena,Perrels, Adriaan
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789289373296

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Nordic Perspectives on Transboundary Climate Risk by Berninger, Kati,Lager, Frida,Botnen Holm, Tara,Tynkkynen, Oras,Klein, Richard J.T.,Aall, Carlo,Dristig, Amica,Määttä, Helena,Perrels, Adriaan Pdf

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-531/ Climate impacts hit us directly as e.g. floods and forest fires, but also cascade over borders. How can we address these transboundary climate risks (TCRs)? To answer this, the Nordic Council of Ministers commissioned a study. As open economies, the Nordics can be exposed to TCRs. Some key trade partners have medium (e.g. China) or even high (e.g. India) risk. The study dove deeper into six food commodities. For example, climate change affects sources of maize negatively, with risks outweighing opportunities by 28:1. This can mean higher prices or disturbances in supplies. The Nordics are better prepared than most others, but not well enough. There are also important differences among them. The report makes recommendations on how Nordics can better address TCRs together. These include a joint research programme, raising awareness and engaging with the private sector.

Author : Nordic Council of Ministers
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289342919

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Sector programme for Education and Research : Danish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2015 by Nordic Council of Ministers Pdf

The Danish programme for the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2015 focuses on the themes of growth, welfare, values and the Blue Arctic. Education, research and innovation play key roles in – and across – all four themes. The Nordic countries have close links with each other, sharing common history, culture and values. The Nordic welfare model is built on our understanding of democracy, the recognition that everyone has equal value and is entitled to equal rights, and respect for the community, to which everybody contributes and the benefits of which are enjoyed by all. Common strengths and strong Nordic values can be found across all of the Nordic education systems.

Author : Sofie Van Parijs,Joseph Appiott,Leslie New,Piers Dunstan ,Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832548646

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Identifying and Comparing Important Areas for Marine Sustainable Use and Conservation by Sofie Van Parijs,Joseph Appiott,Leslie New,Piers Dunstan ,Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara Pdf

The ocean is under increasing threat from the expansion of human activities. The combined impacts of these threats as well as the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification have placed thousands of species at risk of extinction, and have impaired the structure, function, productivity and resilience of marine ecosystems. Currently, some parts of the world's oceans are significantly impacted, yet are without any form of effective management. Only a small proportion of the oceans are within protected area systems. Globally, measures are being taken to increase protection and sustainable management, but application is uncoordinated and not always effective. In order to support effective policy action by countries and competent international and regional organizations, it is critical to build a sound understanding of the most ecologically and biologically important ocean areas that support healthy marine ecosystems so that the necessary steps to ensure the long-term function and resilience of these systems can be taken.