Global Challenges in the Arctic Region

• Author : Elena Conde,Sara Iglesias Sánchez
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 05 August 2016

Bringing together interconnected discussions to make explicit the complexity of the Arctic region, this book offers a legal discussion of the ongoing territorial disputes and challenges in order to frame their impact into the viability of different governance strategies that are available at the national, regional and international level. One of the intrinsic features of the region is the difficulty in the determination of boundaries, responsibilities and interests. Against this background, sovereignty issues are intertwined with environmental and geopolitical issues

• Author : Guillermo Auad,Marcel Babin,David A. Balton,Eddy C. Carmack,Robert W. Corell,Dorthe Dahl-Jensen,Andrey V. Dolgov,Edel O. Elvevoll,Elizaveta Ershova,Brian D. Fath,Andrea M. Fisher,Matthias Forwick,Sam Herreid,Alf Håkon Hoel,Grete K. Hovelsrud,Henry P. Huntington,Anne Husebekk,Brendan P. Kelly,Malinda Labriola,Rolf Mjelde,Lars-Otto Reiersen,Kenneth Ruud,Gunnar Sand,Asgeir J. Sørensen,Shirley Tagalik,Andrea Tilche,Frances Ulmer,Francis K. Wiese,Eduard Zdor
• Publisher : Fundacion BBVA
• Release : 01 May 2021

Climate change in the Arctic Ocean has stirred a remarkable surge of interest and concern. Study after study has revealed the astonishing speed of physical, chemical, ecological, and economic change throughout the expanse of the Arctic. What is more, the consequences of the changing Arctic are not restricted to the Arctic itself, but affect everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, ranging as they do from extreme weather to resource availability and food security, with implications for politics, economics, and sociology. The

• Author : Alexander Sergunin
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 15 December 2015

In this timely book, the authors provide a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region. They assess Russia's domestic discourse on the High North's role in the system of national priorities as well as of Moscow's bi- and multilateral relations with major regional players, energy, environmental, socio-cultural, and military policies in the Arctic. In contrast to the internationally wide-spread stereotype of Russia as a revisionist power in the High North, this book argues that Moscow tries to

• Author : Arvid Viken,Dieter K. Müller
• Publisher : Channel View Publications
• Release : 03 May 2017

This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses, and how these communities are influenced by tourism. The volume focuses on the ambivalence relating to tourism as a modern force within ethnic groups who are concerned with maintaining indigenous roots and traditional practices. It seeks to challenge stereotypical understandings of indigenousness and indigeneity and considers conflicting imaginaries of the

• Author : Rajmund Przybylak
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 31 October 2002

It has been known at least since the end of the century that the polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the Earth’s climates. It is also known today that they are the most sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious obstacle to the study of climatic and other geographical elements of the polar areas (including the Arctic) has always been the

• Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1974

A detailed assessment of environmental impacts associated with the establishment of the proposed park and the management of the land. Includes an inventory of the resources of the area.

• Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Polar Research Board,Commission on Life Sciences,Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources,Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine-131
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 26 February 1996

During the 1950s, with the Cold War looming, military planners sought to know more about how to keep fighting forces fit and capable in the harsh Alaskan environment. In 1956 and 1957, the U.S. Air Force's former Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory conducted a study of the role of the thyroid in human acclimatization to cold. To measure thyroid function under various conditions, the researchers administered a radioactive medical trace, Iodine-131, to Alaska Natives and white military personnel; based on the study results,

• Author : Lloyd Anthony Spetzman
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023

• Author : Thomas R. Berger,True North Strong and Free Inquiry Society
• Publisher : West Vancouver, B.C. ; Seattle, U.S.A. : Gordon Soules Book Publishers
• Release : 07 June 1989

Expands on themes and issues raised in the 1986 Proceedings of a Public Inquiry into Canadian Defence Policy and Nuclear Arms. Speakers from five circumpolar countries discuss about the needs and aspirations of the native peoples of the arctic, Canadian arctic sovereignty, arctic resource development and environmental conservation, political tension and cooperation, as well as world peace and security.

• Author : Alan Baker
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1999

A simple introduction to the variety of animals living in the Arctic, including the lemming, grey wolf, and reindeer.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1977

• Author : Brendan O'Donnell,Max Gruenig,Arne Riedel
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 13 October 2017

This book highlights both the diversity of perspectives and approaches to Arctic research and the inherent interdisciplinary nature of studying and understanding this incomparable region. The chapters are divided into four liberally-defined sections to provide space for dynamic interpretation and dialogue in search of sustainable solutions to the issues facing the Arctic. From governance to technology, scientific research to social systems, human health to economic development, the authors discuss fundamental questions while looking toward the Arctic’s future. Whether the

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 1986

• Author : Harry Peter Smolka
• Publisher : London : Hutchinson & Company
• Release : 07 June 2023

Journalist's account of a trip in 1935 to report on Soviet efforts in developing arctic region.

• Author : Okitsugu Watanabe,Takashi Yamanouchi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023