The new Arctic / Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evengård, Birgitta, editor.

Larsen, Joan Nymand, editor.

Paasche, Øyvind, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Arctic regions.

Arctic Regions.

Arctic regions--Research.

Research.

Climatic changes--Arctic regions.

Physical Description:

xxii, 352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2015.

Contents:

1. Paths to the New Arctic

2. Indigenous peoples in the new Arctic

3. Pioneering nation: new narratives about Greenland and Greenlanders launched through arts and branding

4. Perpetual adaption? Challenges for the Sami and reindeer husbandry in Sweden

5. On past, present and future Arctic expeditions

6. Arctopias: The Arctic as No Place and New Place in fiction

7. The fleeting glaciers of the Arctic

8. Arctic carbon cycle: patterns, impacts and possible changes

9. Arctic vegetation cover: patterns, processes and expected change

10. Human development in the New Arctic

11. Issues in Arctic tourism

12. The Arctic economy in a global context

13. Globalization of the "Arctic"

14. Race to resources in the Arctic: have we progressed in our understanding of what takes place in the Arctic?

15. Comparing the health of circumpolar populations: patterns, determinants, and systems

16. Food security or food sovereignty: what is the main issue in the Arctic?

17. Water information and water security in the Arctic

18. Infectious disease in the Arctic: a panorama in transition

19. Environmental health in the changing Arctic

20. Scientific cooperation throughout the Arctic: the INTERACT experienc

21. The assessed Arctic: how monitoring can be silently normative

22. The challenge of governance in the Arctic: now and in the future

23. New knowledge a pathway to responsible development of the Arctic

24. Cryo-history: narratives of ice and the emerging Arctic humanities

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

3319176013

9783319176017

OCLC:

905566490

Publisher Number:

99963796448