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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic; Problems of sustainability; Between environmental and developmental discourse; Sustainability as a political concept; Analysing sustainability politics; Notes; References; 2 The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse?; Introduction; Stocks: biologically sustainable catch quotas in Greenlandic fisheries; Public purse: economic sustainability in Greenlandic fisheries |
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Communities: employment and culture in Greenlandic fisheriesPublic opinion and the co-existence of competing referent objects; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; 3 Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping; Introduction; The sustainability debate in Arctic shipping; What is to be sustained in Arctic shipping?; Discussion: complexities and conflicts of arctic sustainable shipping; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Digging sustainability: scaling and sectoring of sovereignty in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses; To mine, or not to mine; Scaling and sectoring of sustainability-speak |
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Greenland: mining for a new nation, stretching 'the local'Nunavut: social licence to drill towards devolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5 'Without seals, there are no Greenlanders': colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting; Sustaining Danish colonization; 'Protecting' Inuit seal hunting: a desirable sustainability narrative; Without seals, there are no Greenlanders: a Rinkian sustainability narrative; Changing the colonial sustenance: from seals to fish; Sealing under Home Rule; Great Greenland; Puisi A/S; Rearview: the trace of seal; Notes |
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Strategic positions, scale, and sustainabilityAnalysis: climate change and the global gaze on Greenland; 'The Greenlandic case' and 'the Danish case'; A new strategic position for Greenland; Scale-makingand sustainability dreams; Conclusion: a policy and a commitment that never really were; Notes; References; 9 Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: sustaining the sea or sustaining the state?; Introduction; The Blue Economy as a sustainability strategy; Norway: the Arctic Blue Economy as maritime manifest destiny; Blue Economy, brown oil; Conclusion: contesting the Blue Economy; Notes |
| Summary |
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the environment was the sole referent object of sustainability; however, as sustainability discourses have expanded, the concepthas beenlinked to an increasing number of referent objects, such as society, economy, culture, and identity. This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses. Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Iceland, and Alaska, thechapters in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics |
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References6 Scaling sustainability in the Arctic; The future social world and the political space for sustainability; Mega-industriesin the Arctic; Taming the social; Conclusion; References; 7 Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic; Introduction; Environmental and developmental legacies in the Russian Arctic; Arctic sustainable development in policy discourse; Concluding discussion; Note; References; 8 The right to 'sustainable development' and Greenland's lack of a climate policy; Introduction: thanks on behalf of the citizens of the Maldives |
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Sustainable development -- Arctic regions
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Alaska.
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Arctic.
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Denmark.
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Development.
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Geopolitics.
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Greenland.
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Inuit Studies.
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Norway.
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Polar.
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Political Concept.
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Politics.
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Postcolonial.
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Russia.
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Sustainability.
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Sustainable development
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Arctic Regions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strandsbjerg, Jeppe
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| ISBN |
9781351031974 |
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135103197X |
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9781351031967 |
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1351031961 |
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9781351031950 |
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1351031953 |
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9781351031981 |
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1351031988 |
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1138491837 |
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9781138491830 |
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