Arctic Oil and Gas (eBook, ePUB)

Sustainability at Risk?
Redaktion: Mikkelsen, Aslaug; Langhelle, Oluf

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from a social and developmental perspective, raising questions concerning the interaction between indigenous peoples, governments and oil and gas companies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134068210
• Artikelnr.: 42669843

Autorenporträt

Aslaug Mikkelsen is Rector of the University of Stavanger in Norway. Oluf Langhelle is Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Part I The Arctic: context, framework and methodology 2
Framing oil and gas in the Arctic from a sustainable development
perspective 3 Climate change and consequences for the Arctic 4 Corporate
social responsibility: the economic and institutional responsibility of
business in society 5 Framework and methodology: regulation and discourse
analysis as a research strategy Part II Legal and institutional framework:
case studies 6 Legal and institutional framework: a comparative analysis 7
Expanding oil and gas activities on the North Slope of Alaska 8 Oil and gas
activities at the Mackenzie Delta, in Canada's Northwest Territories 9
Going North: the new petroleum province of Norway 10 The Russian model:
merging profit and sustainability Part III Comparisons and managerial
implications 11 Human rights and indigenous peoples in the Arctic: what are
the implications for the oil and gas industry? 12 Perceptions of Arctic
challenges: Alaska, Canada, Norway and Russia compared 13 Managerial
implications