The Politics of Arctic Resources
The Arctic has often been seen as a natural area, or even a wilderness, where mainly indigenous and subsistence activities have been prominent. Contrary to this, the present volume highlights the very long historical development of resource use systems in northern Europe, across multiple actors and multiple levels, and including varying population groups.
The book takes a past-present-future perspective that illustrates the paths to institutional emergence, change or persistence over time. It also illustrates how institutions may themselves drive changes, through a focus on resource use cases in northern Europe. This volume demonstrates that understanding northern issues is less about understanding sets of geophysical, climatological or environmental conditions than about understanding social and institutional structures. Understanding these trajectories into the future is seen as a key way of understanding what responses to future change may be likely and what the institutions are that will shape, limit or enable our responses to climate change.
This book will be of great use to scholars and graduates in the fields of Arctic and northern-region politics, and to researchers of resource use and climate change with a focus on vulnerability, social vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.
E. Carina H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography and Economic History, Ume University, Sweden. She is the editor or author of eight books and one special issue, as well as the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. Her work has focused on the politics of the development of the Arctic as an international region, and on environmental policy and climate change adaptation in a comparative context. She is a contributing author to the 2014 IPCC report, to the second Arctic Human Development Report, and a member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission as well as the Swedish expert council on adaptation to climate change. She is also the research coordinator for Swedens first Arctic social sciences and humanities research programme, the Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development programme, within which this book was produced.
Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy
Series Editors
Timothy Doyle, Keele University, UK and University of Adelaide, Australia and Philip Catney, Keele University, UK
The theory and practice of environmental politics and policy are rapidly emerging as key areas of intense concern in the first, third and industrializing worlds. People of diverse nationalities, religions and cultures wrestle daily with environment and development issues central to human and non-human survival on the planet Earth. Air, Water, Earth, Fire. These central elements mix together in so many ways, spinning off new constellations of issues, ideas and actions, gathering under a multitude of banners: energy security, food sovereignty, climate change, genetic modification, environmental justice and sustainability, population growth, water quality and access, air pollution, mal-distribution and over-consumption of scarce resources, the rights of the non-human, the welfare of future citizens the list goes on.
What is much needed in green debates is for theoretical discussions to be rooted in policy outcomes and service delivery. So, while still engaging in the theoretical realm, this series also seeks to provide a real world policymaking dimension. Politics and policy making is interpreted widely here to include the territories, discourses, instruments and domains of political parties, non-governmental organizations, protest movements, corporations, international regimes, and transnational networks.
From the local to the global and back again this series explores environmental politics and policy within countries and cultures, researching the ways in which green issues cross North-South and East-West divides. The Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy series exposes the exciting ways in which environmental politics and policy can transform political relationships, in all their forms.
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Contesting Global Environmental Knowledge, Norms, and Governance
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The Politics of Arctic Resources
Change and Continuity in the Old North of Northern Europe
Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo
First published 2019
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Names: Keskitalo, E. C. H. (Eva Carina Helena), 1974 editor.
Title: The politics of Arctic resources : change and continuity in the Old North of Northern Europe / edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Transforming environmental politics and policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018059155 | ISBN 9781138040601 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315174969 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Natural resourcesEurope, NorthernManagement . | Natural resourcesGovernment policyEurope, Northern. | Natural resourcesArctic regionsManagement. | Europe, NorthernEnvironmental conditions.
Classification: LCC HC85 .P64 2019 | DDC 333.70948dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-04060-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-17496-9 (ebk)
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Contents
E. CARINA H. KESKITALO, MARIA PETTERSSON AND SVERKER SRLIN
DEAN CARSON, LOVISA SOLBR AND OLOF STJERNSTRM
SVERKER SRLIN
JAN KUNNAS, E. CARINA H. KESKITALO, MARIA PETTERSSON AND OLOF STJERNSTRM
DAG AVANGO, JAN KUNNAS, MARIA PETTERSSON, RJAN PETTERSSON, PEDER ROBERTS, LOVISA SOLBR, PAUL WARDE AND URBAN WRKBERG
DIETER K. MLLER, JOAKIM BYSTRM, OLOF STJERNSTRM AND DANIEL SVENSSON
PER AXELSSON, PETER SKLD AND CORINNA RVER
PAUL WARDE
