Environmental and Human Security in the Arctic

ISBN-13: 9781844075492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str.

Opis

A multidisciplinary collection taking in climate change, pollution, disease, gender issues and indigenous identities, and laying out a path to improved human security in the region and beyond.

Recenzje

"Environmental and human security in the Arctic opens up and presents many timely and important issues that solidify the non-military approach to security". - Nikolas Sellheim, University of Lapland, Finland

Spis treści

Foreword: Remarks by former Canadian Ambassador to Norway, Shirley Wolff Serafini at the Human Security in the Arctic Seminar (May 2004)  1. Introduction: Can we broaden our understanding of security in the Arctic?  PART 1: Differing Conceptions of Security in the Arctic  2. Cold War legacies in Russia’s Svalbard policy  3. A new northern security: Environmental degradation and risks, climate change, energy security, trans-nationalism and flows of globalization and governance  4. Virtuous imperialism or a shared global objective?: The relevance of human security in the global North  PART 2: Environmental Security  5. The sustainability transition: Governing coupled human/natural systems  6. Arctic environmental security and abrupt climate change  7. Climate change impacts, adaptation, and the technology interface  8. Bridging the GAPS between ecology and human security  PART 3: Health Security  9. Telemedicine as a tool for improving human security  10. Health and human security: Communicable diseases in the post-Soviet Arctic  PART 4: Human Security: Women and Indigenous Groups  11. Aboriginal self-determination and resource development activity: improving human security in the Canadian Arctic?  12. Women’s participation in decision making: human security in the Canadian Arctic  13. Human security and women’s security reality in Northwest Russia  14. The political exclusion and commodification of women  15. Conclusion: Revisiting Arctic security