Northern sustainabilities : understanding and addressing change in the circumpolar world /: understanding and addressing change in the circumpolar world. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gail Fondahl, Gary N. Wilson, editors.
• Editors: Fondahl, Gail; Wilson, Gary N (Gary Norman), 1967-
• Contents: Chapter 1. Exploring Sustainabilities in the Circumpolar North -- Part I. Conceptualizing and Measuring Arctic Sustainability -- Chapter 2. Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic?A Research Agenda -- Chapter 3. Uranium -- The Road to "Economic Self-Sustainability for Greenland"? Changing Uranium Positions in Greenlandic Politics -- Chapter 4. Tensions Between Environmental, Economic and Energy Security in the Arctic -- Chapter 5. Sustainable Security in the Arctic and Military Cooperation -- Chapter 6. Measuring Community Adaptive and Transformative Capacity in the Arctic Context -- Chapter 7. Political and fiscal limitations of Inuit Self-Determination in the Canadian Arctic -- Chapter 8. The Social Life of Institutions in among the Nunavik Inuit (Arctic Quebec, Canada) -- Part II. Challenges to Sustainability -- Chapter 9. Gendered Consequences of Climate Change in Rural Yakutia -- Chapter 10. Activating Adaptive Capacities: Fishing Communities in Northern Norway -- Chapter 11. Signs of Non-Recognition: Colonized Linguistic Landscapes and Indigenous Peoples in Chersky, Northeastern Siberia -- Chapter 12. Barriers to Sustainable Health Promotion and Injury Prevention in the Northwest Territories, Canada -- Chapter 13. Foreign Bodies in the Russian North: On the Biological Adaptation of Soviet Settlers and "Oil Nomads" to the Oil-Rich Arctic -- Chapter 14. Rights and Responsibilities: Sustainability and Stakeholder Relations in the Russian Oil and Gas Sector -- Chapter 15. When Municipalities met Goliat at the Coast of Finnmark: Collaborative Dynamics between Local Authorities and an International Oil and Gas Company -- Chapter 16. Human Capital and Sustainable Development in the Arctic: Towards Intellectual and Empirical Framing -- Part III. Advancing Sustainability -- Chapter 17. From Lone Wolves to Relational Reindeer: Revealing Anthropological Myths and Methods in the Arctic -- Chapter 18. Building Relationships in the Arctic: Indigenous Communities and Scientists -- Chapter 19. Beginnings of a Rural Sustainability Paradigm: The Arctic as Case in Point -- Chapter 20. Urbanisation and Land Use Management in the Arctic: An Investigative Overview -- Chapter 21. "You Need to be a Well-Rounded Cultural Person": Youth Mentorship Programs for Cultural Preservation, Promotion and Sustainability in the Nunatsiavut Region of Labrador -- Chapter 22. Practicing Sustainable Art in the Arctic: Two Case Studies -- Chapter 23. Meaning and Means of "Sustainability": An Example from the Inuit Settlement Region of Nunatsiavut, Northern Labrador.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.998; Environment; Sustainability -- Arctic regions; Sustainable development -- Arctic regions; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Environment; Sustainable Development; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Community & Population Ecology; Environmental Health; Cultural Heritage; Law -- Environmental; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Medical -- Public Health; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Environment law; Animal ecology; Environmental medicine; Cultural studies; Sustainable development; Environmental law; Ecology; Environmental Medicine; Cultural heritage; Science -- Environmental Science; Sustainability; Arctic Regions; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319461502; 3319461508; 3319461486; 9783319461489
• Related ISBNs: 9783319461489
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2017).
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