The Politics of Arctic Resources

Change and Continuity in the "Old North" of Northern Europe
Herausgeber: Keskitalo, E. C. H.

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Produktbeschreibung

The book takes a past-present-future perspective to Northern Europe 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781138040601
• ISBN-10: 1138040606
• Artikelnr.: 56528196

Autorenporträt

E. Carina H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå 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 Sweden's first Arctic social sciences and humanities research programme, the Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development programme, within which this book was produced.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction. Understanding historical contingencies into the
future: cases from northern Europe Chapter 2: Hot-spots and spaces
in-between - Development and settlement in the 'Old North' Chapter 3: State
and Resources in the North: From territorial assertion to the 'smorgasbord
state' Chapter 4: The institutionalization of forestry as a primary land
use in Sweden Chapter 5: Constructing northern Fennoscandia as a mining
region Chapter 6: Making "Wilderness" in a Northern Natural Resource
Periphery: On Restructuring and the Production of a Pleasure Periphery in
Northern Sweden Chapter 7: Ethnic Identity and Resource Rights in Sweden
Chapter 8: Energy Regimes in the Fennoscandian north, c1900-2015 Chapter 9:
Oil and gas extraction in the Barents Sea: A Nordic state-industry
governance system goes north Chapter 10: Troubling the Northern Seas: The
Turbulent History of Norwegian and Russian Fisheries Chapter 11: Imageries
and historical change in the European Russian Arctic Chapter 12: Regional
futures nested in global structures Chapter 13: Conclusion: The "Old
Arctic" - or quite simply the developed northern Europe