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Author : Shahnaj Begum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789523371033
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Ageing and Gender in the Nordic Arctic written by Shahnaj Begum and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paivi Naskali
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317485939
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic written by Paivi Naskali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern. Rapid climate change and ageing of the population are transforming the living conditions in the region. This translates into an urgent need for information that will contribute to a better understanding of these issues. Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic addresses the important intersection of ageing, wellbeing and climate change in the Arctic region, making a key interdisciplinary contribution to an area of research on which little has been written, and limited sources of information are currently available. The book explores three key areas of discussion. First, various political issues that are currently affecting the Arctic, such as the social categorisation of elderly people. Second, the living conditions of the elderly in relation to Arctic climate change. Third, the wellbeing of elderly people in terms of traditional knowledge and lifestyles. The book also features contributions from a number of key researchers in the field which examine a broad range of case studies, including the impact of climate change on health in Lapland and elderly people and geographical mobility in Norway. This book will be of great interest to scholars of climate change, gerontology and social policy.
Author : Päivi Naskali
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030206033
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North written by Päivi Naskali and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an underexplored view of ageing, one that conceives older people as valuable resources in their communities, as active citizens with both voice, and an agency that includes the capacity for resistance. It acknowledges that becoming old with dignity means also paying attention to caring, good health services and the possibility of good death. The book defines age and ageing as multiple, culturally and historically constructed phenomena that are only loosely connected to the years of one’s life. In focusing on the peripheral North located in the Nordic, Canadian and Russian north, it highlights important questions and viewpoints that can be found and adapted to other rural areas. The book answers the following questions: What is the relevance of legislation and international legal agreements in ensuring the rights of elderly people under political and economic changes? What challenges do geographic isolation, changing age structure, and cultural and ecological transformations pose to possibilities for meeting older people’s needs for engagement in society as well as for their care? As such this book will be of interest to all those working in population aging.
Author : Shahnaj Begum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000906442
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Distance, Equity and Older People’s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery written by Shahnaj Begum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older people’s everyday lives and practices. Contributions from leading experts provides interdisciplinary investigations into the experiences and stories of older people in the Northern periphery. These insights demonstrate the utility of the concept, distance, when reflecting on the central aspects of contemporary ageing societies. The book explores key themes such as care, age politics, technology, intergenerational relations and migration, providing perspectives that are applicable across a variety of international geographical contexts. This innovative book offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution with critical new perspectives on ageing in relation to distances. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in sociology, human geography, health and social care, ageing and gerontological studies, gender studies and Arctic studies.
Author : Tuula Heinonen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197677215
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Social Aspects of Aging in Indigenous Communities written by Tuula Heinonen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As an Alaska Native (Unangax) raised among my Elders, I was taught Indigenous ways of thinking, the importance of honoring and respecting our Elders and all people and as I moved through the Western education system, I came to realize the knowledge of the land, the water, and the environment taught to me by Elders in my family and community was not in the textbooks, not shared by others, not honored or respected when shared in a group setting"--
Author : Joan Nymand Larsen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289338830
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Arctic Human Development Report written by Joan Nymand Larsen and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of the second volume of the AHDR – Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages – are to provide an update to the first AHDR (2004) in terms of an assessment of the state of Arctic human development; to highlight the major trends and changes unfolding related to the various issues and thematic areas of human development in the Arctic over the past decade; and, based on this assessment, to identify policy relevant conclusions and key gaps in knowledge, new and emerging Arctic success stories. The production of AHDR-II on the tenth anniversary of the first AHDR makes it possible to move beyond the baseline assessment to make valuable comparisons and contrasts across a decade of persistent and rapid change in the North. It addresses critical issues and emerging challenges in Arctic living conditions, quality of life in the North, global change impacts and adaptation, and Indigenous livelihoods. The assessment contributes to our understanding of the interplay and consequences of physical and social change processes affecting Arctic residents’ quality of life, at both the regional and global scales. It shows that the Arctic is not a homogenous region. Impacts of globalization and environmental change differ within and between regions, between Indigenous and non-Indigenous northerners, between genders and along other axes.
Author : Anne Hellum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000959465
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change written by Anne Hellum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.
Author : Kamrul Hossain
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004314393
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Many Faces of Human Security written by Kamrul Hossain and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Many Faces of Human Security: Perspectives of Northern Indigenous Peoples addresses the different aspects of the human security challenges threatening Northern indigenous peoples. These peoples, whose unique, nature-based livelihoods maintain their identity, face difficulties linked to a changing natural and social environment. Their traditional worldviews are challenged as the world they have known for generations is literally melting away. The North experiences numerous pressures linked to rapid modernization, industrialization, demographic pressure and cultural changes. These threats are presented from various angles, such as indigenous understanding of security, governance, sustainability, livelihood practices, mining, nature-based resources and land use management, gender and the elderly. The focus groups of the book are the Ainu, Inuit, Nenets, Sámi and the Mongolian indigenous herders.
Author : Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009117998
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities written by Sverker Sörlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Hanna Falk Erhag
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030780635
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing written by Hanna Falk Erhag and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.
Author : Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289375612
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Ten years of cooperation through the Nordic Gender Equality Fund written by Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-010/ When the Nordic Council of Ministers established the Nordic Gender Equality Fund in June 2013, the aim was to stimulate Nordic cooperation in the area of gender equality. Since then, the Fund has granted funding to NGOs, public authorities, researchers and networks within the context of 79 different projects. In this publication, we present the experiences, insights and effects of these first ten years of the Fund.
Author : Robert Brinkmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031019490
Total Pages : 2585 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability written by Robert Brinkmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 2585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three E’s of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south
Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784711969
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Settlements at the Edge written by Andrew Taylor and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlements at the Edge examines the evolution, characteristics, functions and shifting economic basis of settlements in sparsely populated areas of developed nations. With a focus on demographic change, the book features theoretical and applied cases which explore the interface between demography, economy, well-being and the environment. This book offers a comprehensive and insightful knowledge base for understanding the role of population in shaping the development and histories of northern sparsely populated areas of developed nations including Alaska (USA), Australia, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland and other nations with territories within the Arctic Circle.
Author : Birger Poppel
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289338970
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book SLiCA: Arctic living conditions written by Birger Poppel and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SLiCA anthology probes into the theoretical and methodological background of the SLiCA project, the research design, the ethical principles applied and introduces examples of the wealth of information available on the livelihoods and living conditions of the Inuit, Saami and the indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula, measured with quality of life criteria they themselves chose. Furthermore the anthology provides samples of analyses – including comparative and contextual studies – that can be accomplished using SLiCA data. Examples of living conditions and topics anlysed are: "suicidal thoughts"; impacts of oil development on living conditions and quality of life; economic stratification; objective and subjective living conditions; education; gender based differences in productive activities; impacts of societal development on men’s and women’s perceptions of their contributions to their households; factors affecting migration, identity, ethnicity, and herding rights.
Author : Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803821671
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Older People in a Digitalized Society written by Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many older people lacking adequate digital competences to support their full participation in today’s digitalized society, Older People in a Digitalized Society asks how is the marginalisation of older people in digital society socially constructed? How can we promote older people’s digital inclusion and agency?
Author : Kamrul Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351171224
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region written by Kamrul Hossain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive industrial developments. The threats arising out of these pressures result in human security challenges. This book analyses the formation, and promotion, of societal security within the context of the Arctic-Barents Region. It applies the human security framework, which has increasingly gained currency at the UN level since 1994 (UNDP), as a tool to provide answers to many questions that face the Barents population today. The study explores human security dimensions such as environmental security, economic security, health, food, water, energy, communities, political security and digital security in order to assess the current challenges that the Barents population experiences today or may encounter in the future. In doing so, the book develops a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities, challenges and needs in the Barents Region and provides recommendations for new strategies to tackle insecurity and improve the wellbeing of both indigenous and local communities. This book will be a valuable tool for academics, policy-makers and students interested in environmental and human security, sustainable development, environmental studies and the Arctic and Barents Region in particular.
Author : Marcela Agudelo-Botero
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832542107
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Innovations in measurement and evidence for healthy aging written by Marcela Agudelo-Botero and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
