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  • The Worldviews of Ice

    Constructions of the Arctic at the Science/Politics Interface

    by Mathias Albert, Mikko von Bremen, Svenja Holste, Daniela Portella Sampaio, Holger Straßheim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book refers to the foundations for the empirical analysis by grounding the inquiry into the circle of Arctic knowledge production and the science/politics interface in a theoretical background that we establish on the basis of various approaches primarily drawn from the fields of International Relations (IR) and Sociology. While at the core we look for the formation and re-production of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Lomborg Deception

    Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

    by Howard Friel ...
    In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Breaking Through

    Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

    Edited by Wilfrid Greaves, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Svalbard

    Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic

    by Zdenka Sokolíčková ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Engaging, rich and nuanced, this book exposes the deep dilemmas facing this Arctic archipelago. A must for anyone with an interest in the challenges of a melting world. Ethnography at its best’ Marianne E. Lien, Professor, University of Oslo‘Rich and deeply textured ... Zdenka Sokolíčková demonstrates how the logic of extraction intersects awkwardly with community, environment, geopolitics and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices of Inuit Leadership and Self-Determination in Canada

    Edited by David Lough ...
    Series Book 38 - Social and Economic Papers
    This book presents a broad range of perspectives and voices — Inuit and non-Inuit, youth and Elders, academics and community members — united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be. Premised on the understanding that new ways of blending traditional knowledge with scientific epistemologies must be forged, this volume represents a continuum of voices ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Scramble for the Poles

    The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic

    by Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall ...
    In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Inuit World

    Edited by Pamela Stern ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. Organized around the themes of physical worlds, moral, spiritual and intellectual worlds, intimate and everyday worlds, and social and political worlds, this book includes ethnographically rich contributions from a range of scholars, including Inuit and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Making a Living

    Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community

    by Nicole Gombay ...
    Until recently, most residents of Puvirnituq, an Inuit settlement in Northern Quebec, made their living off the land. Successful hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering, so vital to people’s survival, were underpinned by the expectation that food should be shared. As the Inuit moved into – both forced and voluntary – they have had to incorporate the workings of a monetized economy into their own ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Arctic Justice

    Environment, Society and Governance

    by Aaron Cooper, Berit Skorstad, Tracey Skillington, Darren McCauley, Roman Sidortsov, Anna Badyina, Tanja Joona, Juha Joona, Joan Nymand Larsen, Tom Mels, Ragnhild Freng Dale, Halvor Dannevig, Oleg Golubchikov, Jón Haukur Ingimundarson ...
    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region.Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies ... Read more

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  • The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic

    by Andreas Raspotnik ...
    'Andreas Raspotnik's book is a well-written history of the European Union's struggle for recognition in the Arctic; a struggle underpinned by attempts to define what the Circumpolar North means for the EU. Raspotnik adopts the lens of critical geopolitics, which proves very productive in terms of capturing the character of the EU-Arctic nexus. The Union is revealed as a reluctant geopolitical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Laws of the Sea

    Interdisciplinary Currents

    Edited by Irus Braverman ...
    Laws of the Sea assembles scholars from law, geography, anthropology, and environmental humanities to consider the possibilities of a critical ocean approach in legal studies.Unlike the United Nations’ monumental Convention on the Law of the Sea, which imagines one comprehensive constitutional framework for governing the ocean, Laws of the Sea approaches oceanic law in plural and dynamic ways. ... Read more

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