ISBN:
9781138491830
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 261 pages
,
illustrations
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in sustainability
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Politics of sustainability in the Arctic
DDC:
304.20911/3
Keywords:
Sustainable development
;
Arctic regions Politics and government
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Arktis
;
Nachhaltigkeit
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Umweltschutz
;
Wirtschaft
;
Politik
Abstract:
"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 expand, the concept is linked 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, the essays 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"--
Abstract:
Introduction sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic / Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Marc Jacobsen & Ulrik Pram Gad -- The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? / Rikke Becker-Jacobsen -- Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping / Kathrin Keil -- Digging sustainability scaling and sectoring of benefits and responsibilities in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses / Marc Jacobsen -- "Without seals, there are no Greenlanders" Colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting / Naja Graugaard -- Scaling sustainability in the Arctic / Frank Sejersen -- Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic / Elana Wilson Rowe -- The right to sustainable development and Greenland's lack of a climate policy / Lill Bjørst -- Building a blue economy in the Arctic Ocean : sustaining the sea, or sustaining the state? / Berit Kristoffersen & Philip Steinberg -- Saving the Arctic : green peace or oil riot? / Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy -- Sustaining the Arctic nation-state : the case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada / Ingrid Medby -- 'How we use our nature." Sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse / Kirsten Thisted -- Sustaining Denmark - sustaining Greenland / Johanne Bruun -- A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska / Victoria Hermann -- Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland / Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall -- Conclusion : sustainability reconfiguring time, space and identity / Ulrik Pram Gad & Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2019/05/08/file_4/8460286.pdf
