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The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics
The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world. The region has developed impressive systems...
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Governance & Climate Justice Global South & Develo** Nations
This book examines international climate change mitigation and adaptation regimes with the aim of proposing fair climate stability implementation...
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Arctic Policy Developments and Marine Transportation
Arctic natural resource development is a major factor in the growth of marine traffic in the Arctic Ocean early in the twenty-first century. Marine...
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Arctic Climate Change: Local Impacts, Global Consequences, and Policy Implications
The Arctic is warming more rapidly than most other parts of the world, and many impacts of climate change are now observed throughout the region....
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Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic: Re-taking Control of the Far North
Fifty years ago, Indigenous affairs played a minor role in the political affairs of the Circumpolar World. Indigenous frustrations with rapidly...
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Government, Policies, and Priorities in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland): Roads to Independence
Kalaallit Nunaat (known in English as ‘Greenland’) is an autonomous region of Denmark as well as the only Indigenous territory in the Arctic with a...
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Indigenous Internationalism in the Arctic
One of the most important developments in Arctic politics is the emergence of a diverse range of governmental and non-governmental organizations...
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The Arctic and Geopolitics
The Arctic is completely uninteresting geopolitically from a traditional security perspective, and while it is interesting from a nontraditional...
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East Asia (Japan, South Korea and China) and the Arctic
This chapter explores East Asian interest and involvement in the Arctic region. Japan, China and South Korea have been paying close attention to the...
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International Indigenous Rights Law and Contextualized Decolonization of the Arctic
This chapter examines the implications of international Indigenous rights law for Arctic policy. In general terms, it argues that international...
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Global Climate Change-Induced Migration and Financial Flows
Climate change gains transfer are meant not only to compensate for losses in global warming losing territories but also to finance incentives for a...
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Russia’s Arctic Regions and Policies
Russia’s Arctic has been integral to its development historically. If the attention paid to this region has waxed and waned in response to other...
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Canada and Russia in an Evolving Circumpolar Arctic
Canada and the Russian Federation have pursued significantly different strategies for economic development and security in their respective...
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Extractive Energy and Arctic Communities
This chapter offers a review of the current policy framework for extractive energy engagement with Arctic communities. It reviews the roles of actors...
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State Expansion and Indigenous Response in the Arctic: A Globally Integrated Northern Borderland Emerges from the Historical Synthesis of Northern Frontier and Northern Homeland
Since the state and its colonial proxies first encroached upon their homeland three centuries ago, natives of the North have continued to assert and...
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Multinational Corporations in the Arctic: From Colonial-Era Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-management and Collaborative Governance
An imperial crossroads of global—and in particular, economic—importance for centuries, the Western Arctic region remains largely underdeveloped as...
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The Future of Work in the Arctic
Rapid technological change has brought major transitions to the North, including the nature and future of work. Labor-saving technologies are...
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Circumpolar Business Development: The Paradox of Governance?
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the state-of-the-art in commercial activity and raise stakeholders’ awareness of challenges and...
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The Future of the Arctic Council
Established in 1996 as a multilateral forum for advancing international cooperation in the Arctic, the Arctic Council (AC) represents the pre-eminent...
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Dotting the Ice
For centuries, nation-states have drawn lines on Arctic maps, appropriating and sub-dividing Indigenous homelands. Sometimes, in the drawing of...