Stories of Change and Sustainability in the Arctic Regions : The Interdependence of Local and Global Paperback / softback

Edited by Rita (The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) Sørly, Tony (Loughborough University in London, UK) Ghaye, Bard (Norwegian Research Centre, Norway) Kartveit

Part of the Routledge Studies in Sustainability series

Paperback / softback

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Description

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

Polar regions are changing rapidly. These changes will dramatically effect ecosystems, economy, people, communities and their interdependencies.

Given this, the stories being told about lives and livelihood development are changing also.

This book is the first of its kind to curate stories about opportunity and responsibility, tensions and contradictions, un/ethical action, resilience, adaptability and sustainability, all within the shifting geopolitics of the north.

The book looks at change and sustainability through multidisciplinary and empirically based work, drawing on case studies from Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Canada, Finland and Northwest Russia, with a notable focus on indigenous peoples.

Chapters touch on topics as wide ranging as reindeer herding, mental health, climate change, land-use conflicts and sustainable business.

The volume asks whose voices are being heard, who benefits, how particular changes affect people’s sense of community and longstanding and cherished values plus livelihood practices and what are the environmental, economic and social impacts of contemporary and future oriented changes with regard to issues of sustainability?

This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability studies, sustainable development, environmental sociology, indigenous studies and environmental anthropology.