Research Catalog

Title

Arctic food security / Gérard Duhaime & Nick Bernard, editors.

Publication

[Edmonton] : CCI Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duhaime, Gérard, 1953-
• Bernard, Nick, 1969-
• CIÉRA.

Description

xi, 344., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.), col. map; 26 cm +

Summary

• "Food security in the Arctic is threatened on all fronts. Traditional food production and food economies have witnessed drastic change, brought about as a result of social, economic, and political influences. Nevertheless, subsistence production continues to be very important in the food economy and security of circumpolar communities, despite increased participation in the wage economy and a growing reliance on imported food products. The decreased consumption of country food and concomitant increase in imported and prepared food in the local diet has resulted in an increase in associated health risks. But neither are country foods without risk, as evidenced by studies on contamination of the food chain, and various impacts of climate and cultural change.
• This volume presents the results of a 5-year multi-disciplinary study by an international panel of experts on food security (or insecurity) in the Arctic and the various factors and mechanisms that have impacted and continue to affect its sustainability. Contributions examine the impacts of development and environmental change and the consequent introduction of new technologies, transportation and infrastructure, the infl uence of wage economies, the impacts of conservation and co-management systems, hunting and fi shing quotas, fur boycotts and anti-sealing lobbies, the disruption of traditional distribution networks, market forces, social policies, as well as legal and jurisdictional influences. Issues and their intensity vary between regions of the circumarctic, but many common themes emerge."--Www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca.

Series Statement

Occasional publication / Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 0068-0303 ; no. 58

Uniform Title

Occasional publication series (Canadian Circumpolar Institute) ; no. 58.

Alternative Title

Sustainable food security in the Arctic.

Subject

• Food supply > Arctic regions
• Arctic peoples > Food
• Inuit > Food
• Aliments > Approvisionnement > Arctique
• Peuples de l'Arctique > Alimentation
• Inuit > Alimentation
• Arctic regions > Social conditions
• Arctique > Conditions sociales

Genre/Form

CD-ROMs.

Note

• Co-published by: CIÉRA, Université Laval.
• Previous title: Sustainable food security in the Arctic.
• CD-ROM in pocket, on p. [3] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Adobe Acrobat Reader; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

This we need / Maggie Emudluk -- The state of food insecurity in the world 2002 / Charles H. Riemenschneider -- A research agenda to address the global challenge of food security / Gérard Duhaime and Nick Bernard -- Alaska. The legal protection of subsistence: a prerequisite of food security for the Inuit of Alaska / Sophie Theriault [and others] -- Canada. Sustainable food security in the Canadian arctic: an integrated synthesis and action plan / Gerard Duhaime [and others]. Setting the table for food security: policy impacts in Nunavut / Heather Myers, Stephanie Powell, Gérard Duhaime. Food production and sharing in Nunavut: not only discourse, but reality / Heather Myers, Stepjanie Powell, Gérard Duhaime. Assessing food insecurity in the arctic: an analysis of aboriginal household coping strategies / Marcelle Chabot -- Greenland. Food security and sustainable development in Greenland: a synthesis / Rasmus Ole Rasmussen [and others]. Resource management and institutional structures in Greenland / Rasmus Ole Rasmussen. Food transportation and supply networks in Greenland / Josee Arsenault -- Euro-Arctic Barents. Community viability and socio-economic change in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region: reindeer herding as a condition for well-being and food security in Northernmost Finland / Ludger Muller-Wille [and others]. People and birch: the sami perception of the environment and its sustainability / Ludger Muller-Wille, Jorunn Eikjok and Dietbert Thannheiser -- Russia. Reindeer meat, fish, potatoes and bread. Food security of a northern community in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, NW Russia / Tuula Tuisku. Food security in Northern Russia: RAIPON-AMAP project 'contaminants, food security and indigenous peoples of the Russian north' / Larissa Abrutina -- A Global view. Food Security of northern indigenous peoples in a time of uncertainty / Chris D. James [and others] -- Conclusion. The state of food security in the circumpolar arctic / Gérard Duhaime, Nick Bernard.

ISBN

• 9781896445427 (bound)
• 189644542X (bound)

OCLC

• 272544489
• SCSB-11948475

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library