Northern sustainabilities : understanding and addressing change in the circumpolar world / Gail Fondahl, Gary N. Wilson, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fondahl, Gail, editor.

Wilson, Gary N. (Gary Norman), 1967- editor.

Conference Name:

International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (8th : 2014 : Prince George, B.C.)

Series:

Springer polar sciences

Springer Polar sciences, 2510-0475

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability--Arctic regions--Congresses.

Sustainability.

Sustainable development--Arctic regions--Congresses.

Sustainable development.

Ethnoecology--Arctic regions--Congresses.

Ethnoecology.

Social conditions.

Environmental conditions.

Climatic changes.

Human ecology.

Arctic Regions.

Human ecology--Arctic regions--Congresses.

Climatic changes--Arctic regions--Congresses.

Arctic regions--Environmental conditions--Congresses.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--Social conditions--Congresses.

Ecology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 342 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Contents:

1. Exploring sustainabilities in the circumpolar north / Gail Fondahl and Gary N. Wilson

Part I. Conceptualizing and measuring Arctic sustainability. 2. Politics of sustainability in the Arctic : a research agenda / Ulrik Pram Gad, Uffe Jakobsen, and Jeppe Strandsbjerg ; 3. Uranium : the road to "economic self-sustainability for Greenland"? : changing uranium-positions in Greenlandic politics / Lill Rastad Bjørst ; 4. Tensions between environmental, economic and energy security in the Arctic / Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv ; 5. Sustainable security in the Arctic and military cooperation / Michał Łuszczuk ; 6. Measuring community adaptive and transformative capacity in the Arctic context / Matthew Berman, Gary Kofinas, and Shauna BurnSilver ; 7. Political and fiscal limitations of Inuit self-determination in the Canadian Arctic / Umut Riza Ozkan and Stephan Schott ; 8. The social life of political institutions among the Nunavik Inuit (Arctic Québec, Canada) / Caroline Hervé

Part II. Challenges to sustainability. 9. Gendered consequences of climate change in rural Yakutia / Liliia Vinokurova ; 10. Activating adaptive capacities : fishing communities in northern Norway / Ingrid Bay-Larsen and Grete K. Hovelsrud ; 11. Signs of non-recognition : colonized linguistic landscapes and indigenous peoples in Chersky, northeastern Siberia / Lena Sidorova, Jenanne Ferguson, and Laur Vallikivi ; 12. Barriers to sustainable health promotion and injury prevention in the Northwest Territories, Canada / Audrey R. Giles, Lauren A. Brooks-Cleator, and Catherine T.R. Glass ; 13. Foreign bodies in the Russian north : on the physiological and psychological adaptation of Soviet settlers and 'oil nomads' to the oil-rich Arctic / Rémy Rouillard ; 14. Rights and responsibilities : sustainability and stakeholder relations in the Russian oil and gas sector / Emma Wilson ; 15. When municipalities met Goliat on the coast of Finnmark : collaborative dynamics between local authorities and an international oil and gas company / Toril Ringholm ; 16. Human capital and sustainable development in the Arctic : towards intellectual and empirical framing / Andrey N. Petrov

Part III. Advancing sustainability. 17. From lone wolves to relational reindeer : revealing anthropological myths and methods in the Arctic / Stacy Rasmus and Olga Ulturgasheva ; 18. Building relationships in the Arctic : indigenous communities and scientists / Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon ; 19. Beginnings of a rural sustainability paradigm : the Arctic as case in point / Susan A. Crate ; 20. Urbanisation and land use management in the Arctic : an investigative overview / Ryan Weber, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Lyudmila Zalkind, Anna Karlsdottir, Sámal T.F. Johansen, Jukka Terräs, and Kjell Nilsson ; 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 / Ashlee Cunsolo, Inez Shiwak, Michele Wood, and The IlikKuset-Ilingannet Team ; 22. Practicing sustainable art in the Arctic : two case studies / Herminia Din ; 23. Meaning and means of "sustainability" : an example from the Inuit settlement region of Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador / Rudolf Riedlsperger, Christina Goldhar, Tom Sheldon, and Trevor Bell.

Notes:

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page.

Papers presented at the Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII) held in Prince George [British Columbia] in 2014. (Foreword)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319461486

9783319461489

OCLC:

956480210