Resources, Social and Cultural Sustainabilities in the Arctic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Tennberg, Monica; Pirnes, Susanna; Lempinen, Hanna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429614538
• Artikelnr.: 57902384

Autorenporträt

Monica Tennberg, a research professor, conducts research about Arctic political economy: that is, about connections between wealth, power and well-being. She has recently contributed to the book Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic - Perspectives from the Barents Area (2017). Hanna Lempinen is a university lecturer in political science at the University of Lapland, Finland, and a visiting senior researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. Her research interests include social and cultural aspects of sustainability, especially in the context of Arctic large-scale energy and industrial development. Her book Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability was published by Palgrave in 2018. Susanna Pirnes is a doctoral candidate in political science. Her research interests are related to the Russian Arctic, Arctic identities, memories and history politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sustainabilities in the resourceful North
Part I Entangled resources and sustainabilities
2. Greenland and the elusive better future: the affective merging of resources and independence
3. Promise and threat: living with nuclear in the Finnish context
4. Untied resource as a threa/-t/-d for social fabric(ation)
5. "Prudent development:" the (r)evolution of the Arctic energy concern in the 2007-2017 Arctic Energy Summit Reports
6. Socially Responsible Investments (SRIs) in the European Arctic: new pathways for global investors to outperform conventional capital investments?
7. Resources on the Arctic border: views of the Finnish municipalities and the EU`s cross-border program
Part II Whose imaginaries?
8. The political ecology of northern adaptation: power, nature and knowledge
9. Arctic expertise and its social dimensions in Lapland
10. When gender matters: equality as a source of Arctic sustainability?
11. Sámi cultural heritage and tourism in Finland
12. History as a resource in Russian Arctic politics
13. The resourceful North: divergent imaginaries from the European Arctic
Index