Competing Arctic Futures Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wormbs, Nina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Introduction Back to the Futures of an Uncertain Arctic; Nina Wormbs
• Chapter 2 Constructing Arctic Energy Resources: The Case of the Canadian North, 1921-1980; Paul Warde
• Chapter 3 Extracting the Future in Svalbard; Dag Avango
• Chapter 4 "Red herring": The Unpredictable Soviet Fish and Soviet Power in the 1930s; Julia Lajus
• Chapter 5 A Reindeer Herding people? Political Visions of Sami Futures; Patrik Lantto
• Chapter 6 Creating a Safe Operating Space for Business: The Changing Role of Arctic Governance; Annika E. Nilsson
• Chapter 7 Voicing Bipolar Futures: The Antarctic Treaty System and Arctic Governance in Historical Perspective; Lize-Marié van der Watt and Peder Roberts
• Chapter 8 Political regime influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region; Alexander Gnatenko and Andrian Vlakhov
• Chapter 9 The Telecoupled Arctic: Assessing Stakeholder Narratives of Non-Arctic States; Eric Paglia
• Chapter 10 Arctic Modernism: New Urbanisation Models for the Soviet Far North in the 1960s; Ekaterina Kalemeneva
• Chapter 11 Conclusion Anthropocene Arctic: Reductionist Imaginaries of a "New North"; Sverker Sörlin.