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What is the future for northern landscapes? How will they look? What will it be like to live there? Who will live there and how will they sustain themselves? More importantly still: How do our expectations, projections and actions now contribute to shaping the future north - its communities, its landscapes, its industries? These questions are addressed in this interdisciplinary book, which investigates the ongoing changes in the North, Subarctic, and Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines landscapes and territories ranging from the Kola Peninsula in Northwest Russia, the Norwegian...

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the landscape....