Society Environment And Human Security In The Arctic Barents Region

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Dorothée Cambou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351171229

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Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region by Kamrul Hossain,Dorothée Cambou Pdf

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive industrial developments. The threats arising out of these pressures result in human security challenges. This book analyses the formation, and promotion, of societal security within the context of the Arctic-Barents Region. It applies the human security framework, which has increasingly gained currency at the UN level since 1994 (UNDP), as a tool to provide answers to many questions that face the Barents population today. The study explores human security dimensions such as environmental security, economic security, health, food, water, energy, communities, political security and digital security in order to assess the current challenges that the Barents population experiences today or may encounter in the future. In doing so, the book develops a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities, challenges and needs in the Barents Region and provides recommendations for new strategies to tackle insecurity and improve the wellbeing of both indigenous and local communities. This book will be a valuable tool for academics, policy-makers and students interested in environmental and human security, sustainable development, environmental studies and the Arctic and Barents Region in particular.

Author : Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv,Dawn Bazely,Marina Goloviznina,Andrew Tanentzap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134634859

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Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv,Dawn Bazely,Marina Goloviznina,Andrew Tanentzap Pdf

This is the first comprehensive exploration of why human security is relevant to the Arctic and what achieving it can mean, covering the areas of health of the environment, identity of peoples, supply of traditional foods, community health, economic opportunities, and political stability. The traditional definition of security has already been actively employed in the Arctic region for decades, particularly in relation to natural resource sovereignty issues, but how and why should the human aspect be introduced? What can this region teach us about human security in the wider world? The book reviews the potential threats to security, putting them in an analytical framework and indicating a clear path for solutions.Contributions come from natural, social and humanities scientists, hailing from Canada, Russia, Finland and Norway. Environmental Change and Human Security in the Arctic is an essential resource for policy-makers, community groups, researchers and students working in the field of human security, particularly for those in the Arctic regions.

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Jose Miguel Roncero Martin,Anna Petrétei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004363045

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Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic by Kamrul Hossain,Jose Miguel Roncero Martin,Anna Petrétei Pdf

Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic addresses the comprehensive understanding of security in the Arctic, and specific challenges of the Arctic population from the viewpoint of human security.

Author : Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv,Marc Lanteigne,Horatio Sam-Aggrey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351968232

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Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv,Marc Lanteigne,Horatio Sam-Aggrey Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security offers a comprehensive examination of security in the region, encompassing both state-based and militarized notions of security, as well as broader security perspectives reflecting debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies. Since the turn of the century, the Arctic has increasingly been in the global spotlight, resulting in the often invoked idea of “Arctic exceptionalism” being questioned. At the same time, the unconventional political power which the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples hold calls into question conventional ideas about geopolitics and security. This handbook examines security in this region, revealing contestations and complementarities between narrower, state-based and/or militarized notions of security and broader security perspectives reflecting concerns and debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies. The volume is split into five thematic parts: • Theorizing Arctic Security • The Arctic Powers • Security in the Arctic through Governance • Non-Arctic States, Regional and International Organizations • People, States, and Security. This book will be of great interest to students of Arctic politics, global governance, geography, security studies, and International Relations.

Author : Lassi Heininen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137468253

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Future Security of the Global Arctic by Lassi Heininen Pdf

In the globalized Arctic there has been a transformation from military security to human security. Climate change, the utilization of Arctic resources and other global challenges have caused the Arctic 'paradox' and a need to redefine security.

Author : Lassi Heininen,Heather Exner-Pirot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030202309

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Climate Change and Arctic Security by Lassi Heininen,Heather Exner-Pirot Pdf

This book assesses the construction of security in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Arctic region. It examines and discusses changes in the security premises of the Arctic states, from traditional security to environmental and human security. In particular, the book explores how climate change impacts security discourses and premises as well as theoretically discussing the possibility for another change, from circumpolar stability into peaceful change. Chapters cover topics such as the ethics of climate change in the arctic, China’s emerging power and influence on arctic climate security, the discursive transformation of the definition of security and the intersection between urban, climate and Arctic studies. The book concludes with the question of whether a paradigm shift in our understanding of traditional security is possible, and whether it is already occurring in the Arctic.

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Anna Petrétei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9523371215

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Unconventional Aspects of Human Security in the Arctic by Kamrul Hossain,Anna Petrétei Pdf

Author : Willy Østreng
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401147606

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National Security and International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic — the Case of the Northern Sea Route by Willy Østreng Pdf

The basic objective of this report is to place the debate about the future of the Northern Sea Route into the larger picture of Arctic politics and the emerging agenda of the Arctic as a developing region in international society. National security and international environmental cooperation, are the objects of study employed, both separately and in various conceptual combinations, to realize this purpose. To help me in this, I was privileged to draw on the profound expertise of my highly esteemed co-authors, Professor Franklyn Griffiths at the University of Toronto and Senior Researchers at IMEMO in Moscow: Raphael Vartanov, Alexei Roginko and Alexander Kolossov. To their cooperative spirit, friendship and solid contributions to this report, ( am deeply indebted. The report is the result of multiple contributions, both in terms of substance and funding, extending far beyond the inputs of the team of authors. The professional input and thorough work 'behind the scene' done by Liv Astrid Sverdrup, Researcher at FNI at an early stage of the project, has been invaluable. Senior Consultant Kjell Moe at the Norwegian Polar Institute also provided valuable comments and improvements to the biological parts of the Introductory chapter, whilst Senior Consultant Ann Skarstad at FNI, worked wonders with the language for those of us not having English as our mother tongue. Claes Lykke Ragner, Deputy head of the (NSROP secretariat, and Dr.

Author : Paul Arthur Berkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136217487

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Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean by Paul Arthur Berkman Pdf

The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades. This fundamental shift in the boundary conditions of the Arctic Ocean will create a new natural system with different dynamics than anything previously experienced by humans in the region. With the diminishing ice cover, interests are awakening globally to take advantage of extensive energy, shipping, fishing and tourism prospects in the Arctic Ocean. A range of states, including the major Arctic powers, are increasingly asserting their sovereignty seawards. National security policies are being declared and nuclear-capable states are adjusting their strategic deployments in the Arctic Ocean. There are forums for international cooperation in the Arctic, most notably the Arctic Council, but peace in the Arctic Ocean has yet to be explicitly established as a common interest because of the long-standing military presence. Risks of political, economic and cultural instabilities are inherent consequences. This volume proposes environmental security as providing a holistic framework to assess these security risks and then identify the appropriate adaptation and mitigation responses. Only after shared risk assessment and understanding of the appropriate responses, will there be sufficient clarity about the governance paths to pursue within the international legal framework of the law of the sea.

Author : Jyrki Käkönen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UVA:35007002434169

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Perspectives on Environment, State and Civil Society by Jyrki Käkönen Pdf

Author : Mirva Salminen,Gerald Zojer,Kamrul Hossain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030480707

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Digitalisation and Human Security by Mirva Salminen,Gerald Zojer,Kamrul Hossain Pdf

This book constructs a multidisciplinary approach to human security questions related to digitalisation in the European High North i.e. the northernmost areas of Scandinavia, Finland and North-Western Russia. It challenges the mainstream conceptualisation of cybersecurity and reconstructs it with the human being as the referent object of security.

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Dele Raheem,Shaun Cormier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319757568

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Food Security Governance in the Arctic-Barents Region by Kamrul Hossain,Dele Raheem,Shaun Cormier Pdf

Food Security Governance in the Arctic-Barents Region provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the major food security and safety challenges faced in the Arctic region. The authors address existing gaps in current knowledge of the coordination and implementation of legal framework and policy that affects the Arctic. The volume is unique in its focus on the Barents region, an area of northern Europe containing Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The region has a population of approximately 5.2 million, including indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. The authors offer a balanced and systemic review of the role of traditional foods in this region, along with an overview of the regulatory tools and institutions that govern food security. Food security and safety in the –Arctic-Barents region is connected to and impacted by transformations from both inside and outside the area. Climate change, globalization and human activities affect the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food. The result of these transformations has an impact on the food security and safety for both indigenous and non-indigenous individuals and communities. The authors, by highlighting these challenges, reveal the importance of having harmonized policies and legal tools in place in order to strengthen food security and safety in the Barents region. The book forms part of the main outcome of the Academy of Finland’s ongoing project on Human Security as a promotional tool for societal security in the Arctic: Addressing Multiple Vulnerability to its Population with Specific Reference to the Barents Region (HuSArctic). Researchers, policy makers, and other stakeholders will find the book to be an important contribution to the promotion of policies and strategies on food security.

Author : Olav Schram Stokke,Geir Hønneland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134149285

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International Cooperation and Arctic Governance by Olav Schram Stokke,Geir Hønneland Pdf

A new exploration of the impacts of Arctic regimes in such vital areas as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change. The post-Cold War era has seen an upsurge in interest in Arctic affairs. With new international regimes targeting Arctic issues at both the global and regional levels, the Northern areas seem set to play an increasingly prominent role in the domestic and foreign policies of the Arctic states and actors – not least Russia, the USA and the EU. This volume clearly distinguishes between three key kinds of impact: effectiveness, defined as mitigation or removal of specific problems addressed by a regime political mobilization, highlighting changes in the pattern of involvement and influence in decision making on Arctic affairs region building, understood as contributions by Arctic institutions to denser interactive or discursive connectedness among the inhabitants of the region. Empirically, the main focus is on three institutions: the Arctic Council, the Barents Euro-Arctic Region and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. International Cooperation and Arctic Governance is essential reading for all students with an interest in Arctic affairs and their impact on global society.

Author : James Kraska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139499330

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Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change by James Kraska Pdf

This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states. In light of climate change and melting ice in the Arctic Ocean, Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), Norway and the United States, as well as Iceland, Sweden and Finland, are grappling with an emerging Arctic security paradigm. This volume brings together the world's most seasoned Arctic political-military experts from Europe and North America to analyze how Arctic nations are adapting their security postures to accommodate increased shipping, expanding naval presence, and energy and mineral development in the polar region. The book analyzes the ascent of Russia as the first 'Arctic superpower', the growing importance of polar security for NATO and the Nordic states, and the increasing role of Canada and the United States in the region.

Author : Hanna Lempinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030022693

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Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability by Hanna Lempinen Pdf

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world’s Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and developing technologies are expected to push energy-related activities ever further into the previously inaccessible north. Within this framework, energy in the Arctic is predominantly understood as synonymous with oil and gas production for international exports; meanwhile, any social sustainability concerns associated with energy-related developments remain largely neglected or reduced to regional socioeconomic concerns. Lempinen adopts an alternative approach, exploring how energy and its societal aspects are defined and debated in the context of the circumpolar north. Combining an in-depth conceptual discussion on energy and the social dimension of sustainability with an empirical focus on the scientific and political “truths” produced about energy and society in the Arctic energyscape, this book is an enlightening read for students, scholars and professionals interested in issues related to energy and society in the Arctic or beyond.