Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
The New Extractivist Paradigm
Published on 7. December 2022
978-1-009-11833-0 (ISBN)
Description
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous peoples. This book examines the growing Arctic resource dilemma. It explores the 'new extractivist paradigm' that posits transitioning the region's long-standing role of delivering minerals, fossil energy, and marine resources to one providing rare earth elements, renewable power, wilderness tourism, and scientific knowledge about climate change. With chapters from a global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, new opportunities and their implications for Arctic communities and landscapes are discussed, alongside the pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.
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Language
English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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File size
14,15 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-11833-0 (9781009118330)
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12/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Content
1. The extractivist paradigm - Arctic resources and the planetary mine Sverker Soerlin; Part I. Extractivism: 2. Patterns of Arctic extractivism - past and present Sverker Soerlin, Brigt Dale, Arn Keeling, Joan Nymand Larsen; 3. Extraction cultures in Svalbard: From mining coal to mining knowledge and memories Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Zdenka Sokolickoval Part II. Impact: 4. Scenarios and surprises: When change is the only given Annika E. Nilsson, Simo Sarkki; 5. Cumulative effects on environment and people Carl OEsterlin, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Christian Fohringer, Elise Lepy, Gunhild Rosqvist; 6. How should impacts be assessed? Gunhild Rosqvist, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Leena Suopajaervi, Carl OEsterlin; Part III. Affect: 7. Affective approaches - rethinking emotions in resource extraction Lill Rastad Bjorst, Frank Sejersen, Kirsten Thisted; 8. Extraordinary underground: fear, fantasy and future extraction Vesa-Pekka Herva, Teresa Komu, Tina Paphitis; Part IV. Community: 9. Remediating mining landscapes Anne-Cathrine Flyen, Dag Avango, Sandra Fischer, Camilla Winqvist ; 10. Heritage for the future - narrating abandoned mining sites Dag Avango, Elise Lepy, Malin Braennstroem, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Teresa Komu, Albina Pashkevich, Carl OEsterlin; 11. Mining towns in transition - Arctic legacies Judit Malmgren, Dag Avango, Curt Persson, Annika E. Nilsson, Thierry Rodon; Part V. Code: 12. Beyond mining: Repair and reconciliation Marianne Elisabeth Lie; 13. Postscript - Extractivism after the 'New Arctic' Sverker Soerlin; Index.
