Competing Arctic Futures Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wormbs, Nina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; Environmental policy.; History, Modern.; Polar regions.; Historical geography.; History of Science.; Environmental Policy.; Modern History.; Polar Geography.; Historical Geography.

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction th...