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This book examines the significance of the rights of the Sámi people and analyses the issues raised by the recognition and implementation of these rights in the Nordic countries.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples¿ relations.

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond.

The Future of the Arctic Human Population seeks to explore the challenges of Arctic migration, immigrants and refugees and how integrated societies can be developed. Moreover, it discusses disparities between regions on policies and their implementation.

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic. It presents state-of-the-art thinking about sustainability for the Arctic from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples¿ relations.

This first scholarly edited volume based on field research with Arctic Youth from three continents contributes to a theory of well-being and place-making grounded in the Arctic ¿ a region usually associated more with hostile conditions for human inhabitation.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland¿s economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention. It offers multidisciplinary insights from economists, sociologists, and political scientists to show how Greelandic economy works.

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic aimed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new, meaningful ways.

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil and gas which is only set to increase. This book examines the relationship between Arctic communities and extractive resource development. Authors examine this relationship to better understand what, if anything, can be done in order for the development of non-renewable resources to be of benefit to the long-term sustainability of these communities.This book is a summary of issues surrounding resource extraction in the Arctic, and will be an essential reading for anyone interested in environmental impact assessments, globalization and Indigenous communities, and the future of the Arctic region.

This book provides the first in-depth, multidisciplinary study of re-urbanization in RussiaΓÇÖs Arctic regions, with a specific focus on new mobility patterns, and the resulting birth of new urban Arctic identities in which newcomers and labor migrants form a rising part of. It is an invaluable reference for all those interested in current trends in circumpolar regions, showing how the Arctic region is becoming more diverse culturally, but also more integrated into globalized trends in terms of economic development, urban sustainability and migration.