Competing Arctic futures : historical and contemporary perspectives /: historical and contemporary perspectives. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nina Wormbs.
• Editors: Wormbs, Nina
• Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction Back to the Futures of an Uncertain Arctic; Nina Wormbs.- Chapter 2 Constructing Arctic Energy Resources: The Case of the Canadian North, 1921-1980; Paul Warde.- Chapter 3 Extracting the Future in Svalbard; Dag Avango.- Chapter 4 'Red herring': The Unpredictable Soviet Fish and Soviet Power in the 1930s; Julia Lajus.- Chapter 5 A Reindeer Herding people? Political Visions of Sami Futures; Patrik Lantto.- Chapter 6 Creating a Safe Operating Space for Business: The Changing Role of Arctic Governance; Annika E. Nilsson.- Chapter 7 Voicing Bipolar Futures: The Antarctic Treaty System and Arctic Governance in Historical Perspective; Lize-Marié van der Watt and Peder Roberts.- Chapter 8 Political regime influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region; Alexander Gnatenko and Andrian Vlakhov.- Chapter 9 The Telecoupled Arctic: Assessing Stakeholder Narratives of Non-Arctic States; Eric Paglia.- Chapter 10 Arctic Modernism: New Urbanisation Models for the Soviet Far North in the 1960s; Ekaterina Kalemeneva.- Chapter 11 Conclusion Anthropocene Arctic: Reductionist Imaginaries of a 'New North'; Sverker Sörlin.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 998.00112; History; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy; History -- Modern -- General; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; History -- Historical Geography; Central government policies; History: earliest times to present day; Physical geography & topography; Historical geography; Environmental policy; History, Modern; Historical geography; Science -- History; History of science; Arctic regions -- Forecasting; Arctic regions -- In literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319916170
• Related ISBNs: 9783319916163
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