Contesting the Arctic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting the Arctic write by Philip E. Steinberg. This book was released on 2015-02-16. Contesting the Arctic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing their visions for the Arctic. What form of political organization should prevail? Contesting the Arctic provides a map of potential governance options for the Arctic and addresses and evaluates the ways in which Arctic stakeholders throughout the region are seeking to pursue them.
The Polar Pivot
The Polar Pivot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polar Pivot write by RYAN PATRICK. BURKE. This book was released on 2022-02-15. The Polar Pivot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic write by Ulrik Pram Gad. This book was released on 2018-10-04. The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the environment was the sole referent object of sustainability; however, as sustainability discourses have expanded, the concept has been linked to an increasing number of referent objects, such as society, economy, culture, and identity. This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses. Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Iceland, and Alaska, the chapters in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics.
Competing Arctic Futures
Competing Arctic Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competing Arctic Futures write by Nina Wormbs. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Competing Arctic Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction that there will be increased shipping and resource extraction as the ice melts and shows how this seemingly inevitable future has consequences for the action that can be taken in the present. This collection looks to historical projections about the future of the Arctic, evaluating why some voices have been heard and championed, while others remain marginalised. It questions how these historical perspectives have shaped resource allocation and governance structures to understand the forces behind change in the Arctic region. Considering the history of individuals and institutions, their political and economic networks and their perceived power, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on how the future of the Arctic has been produced and communicated.
Making the Arctic City
Making the Arctic City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making the Arctic City write by Peter Hemmersam. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Making the Arctic City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere. Examining architects' and planners' designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities, and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers – a critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in the region.
