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

The book showcases sustainability stories from circumpolar communities, highlighting the impacts of environmental, economic, and societal changes on ecosystems, economies, and communities. It explores opportunities, responsibilities, tensions, contradictions, resilience, adaptability, and sustainability through multidisciplinary and empirically based work, with a focus on indigenous peoples. Chapters cover a range of topics, including reindeer herding, mental health, climate change, land-use conflicts, and sustainable business. The volume aims to answer questions about whose voices are being heard, who benefits from changes, how they affect peoples' sense of community and values, and the environmental, economic, and social impacts of contemporary and future-oriented changes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Arctic is a region of immense beauty and complexity, characterized by its harsh climate, vast expanses of ice, and unique wildlife. However, it is also facing numerous challenges, including climate change, economic development, and social inequality. In this book, we explore the stories of sustainability from communities in the circumpolar regions, as they grapple with these environmental, economic, and societal changes and challenges.

Polar regions are changing rapidly, and these changes will have a profound impact on ecosystems, economies, people, communities, and their interdependencies. The stories being told about lives and livelihood development are also changing, reflecting the changing geopolitics of the north. This book is the first of its kind to curate stories about opportunity and responsibility, tensions and contradictions, unethical 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 peoples sense of community and longstanding and cherished values, 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.

The Arctic is a region of immense beauty and complexity, characterized by its harsh climate, vast expanses of ice, and unique wildlife. However, it is also facing numerous challenges, including climate change, economic development, and social inequality. In this book, we explore the stories of sustainability from communities in the circumpolar regions, as they grapple with these environmental, economic, and societal changes and challenges.

Polar regions are changing rapidly, and these changes will have a profound impact on ecosystems, economies, people, communities, and their interdependencies. The stories being told about lives and livelihood development are also changing, reflecting the changing geopolitics of the north. This book is the first of its kind to curate stories about opportunity and responsibility, tensions and contradictions, unethical 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 peoples sense of community and longstanding and cherished values, 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.

Weight: 470g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367632854