Research Catalog

Title

Tackling space : federal politics and the Russian North / edited by Helge Blakkisrud, Geir Hønneland.

Publication

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blakkisrud, Helge.
• Hønneland, Geir.

Description

x, 210 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"With its expert contributions from political science, economics, geography, and anthropology, this book represents the first comprehensive study in the Western literature of federal politics towards the Russian North. In addition to mapping the scope for federal governance, it covers such important issue areas as infrastructure development, natural resource management, environmental affairs, and policies towards indigenous peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Since 1991
• Central-local government relations > Russia, Northern
• Russia, Northern > Politics and government
• Russia, Northern > Economic conditions
• Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Russian North / Helge Blakkisrud, Geir Hønneland -- What's to be done with the North? / Helge Blakkisrud -- Economic geography / Per Botolf Maurseth -- Transport infrastructure / Clae Lykke Ragner -- Whose fish / Geir Hønneland -- Hydrocarbon resources and northern development / Valerity Kryukow, Arild Moe -- The ups and downs of environmental governance / Geir Hønneland, Jørgen Holten Jørgensen -- The evolution of federal indigenous policy in the post-Soviet North / Indra Øverland, Helge Blakkisrud -- The burden and blessing of space / Helge Blakkisrud, Geir Hønneland.

ISBN

• 0761833250
• 9780761833253

LCCN

^^2006436522

OCLC

• 63190968
• SCSB-11366655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library