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Contested Arctic : indigenous peoples, industrial states, and the circumpolar environment
- Title
- Contested Arctic : indigenous peoples, industrial states, and the circumpolar environment / edited by Eric Alden Smith, Joan McCarter ; preface by Kurt E. Engelmann.
- Publication
- Seattle : Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies in association with University of Washington Press, ©1997.
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- Description
- xix, 156 p. : maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This volume explores some of the major threats to the Arctic environment and indigenous people's responses to these threats. Case studies discuss the push for oil and gas development in Canada, Alaska, and Russia; the toxic legacy of the former Soviet Union; land tenure conflicts in Russia; and wildlife management in Canada and Scandinavia.
- Subject
- Human ecology > Arctic regions > Congresses
- Environmental policy > Arctic regions > Congresses
- Arctic peoples > Congresses
- Indigenous peoples > Arctic regions > Congresses
- Environmental protection > Arctic regions > Congresses
- Arctic peoples
- Ecology
- Environmental policy
- Environmental protection
- Human ecology
- Indigenous peoples
- Indigenes Volk
- Humanökologie
- Kongress
- Umweltschutz
- Inheemsen
- Industrie
- Politique de l'environnement > Arctique > Congrès
- Écologie humaine > Arctique > Congrès
- Peuples de l'Arctique > Congrès
- Environnement > Protection > Congrès. > Arctique
- Iwi taketake
- Arctic regions > Environmental conditions > Congresses
- Arctic Regions
- Arktis
- Arktische Zone
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The role of indigenous peoples in forming environmental policies / Charles Johnson -- The cultural context of wildlife management in the Canadian North / Peter Collings -- 'Aboriginal nations': natives in northwest Siberia and northern Alberta / Aileen Espiritu -- Environmental degradation and indigenous land claims in Russia's North / Gail Fondahl -- A survey of pollution problems in the Soviet and post-Soviet Russian North / Craig ZumBrunnen -- Negotiating nature in Swedish Lapland: ecology and economics of Saami reindeer management / Hugh Beach.
- ISBN
- 0295976551
- 9780295976556
- LCCN
- 97013803
- OCLC
- ocm36858203
- 36858203
- SCSB-348298
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- Princeton University Library