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Download or read book Arctic Homeland written by Mark Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthropological study focusses on the Upernavik district of northwest Greenland, in particular the community of Kangersuatsinq, and discusses the changes in the hunting lifestyle of the Inuit under Home Rule during the 1980s.
Book Synopsis Governing the North American Arctic by : Dawn Alexandrea Berry
Download or read book Governing the North American Arctic written by Dawn Alexandrea Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it has been home for centuries to indigenous peoples who have mastered its conditions, the Arctic has historically proven to be a difficult region for governments to administer. Extreme temperatures, vast distances, and widely dispersed patterns of settlement have made it impossible for bureaucracies based in far-off capitals to erect and maintain the kind of infrastructure and institutions that they have built elsewhere. As climate change transforms the polar regions, this book seeks to explore how the challenges of governance are developing and being met in Alaska, the Canadian Far North, and Greenland, while also drawing upon lessons from the region's past. Though the experience of each of these jurisdictions is unique, their place within democratic, federal systems and the prominence within each of them of issues relating to the rights of indigenous peoples situates them as part of an identifiably 'North American Arctic.' Today, as this volume shows, their institutions are evolving to address contemporary issues of security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and economic development.
Download or read book The Arctic written by Klaus Dodds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting lines are only made murkier by the threat of global climate change. In the Arctic Ocean, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life and raise sea levels globally. In The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance, among other crucial topics.
Book Synopsis The Arctic and Its People by : Susan Bullen
Download or read book The Arctic and Its People written by Susan Bullen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps, photographs, and descriptions reveal the world of the Arctic, its climate, its resources, traditional cultures, and animals.
Book Synopsis Strategic Approach for Arctic Homeland Security by : United States. Department of Homeland Security
Download or read book Strategic Approach for Arctic Homeland Security written by United States. Department of Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Arctic Home in the Vedas by : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Download or read book The Arctic Home in the Vedas written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arctic Land written by Bobbie Kalman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is one of the coldest places on earth. The plants, animals, and people that spend their lives in this harsh environment must cope with severe winds, freezing temperatures, and long winter months without sunshine.
Book Synopsis Ancient homeland. by : A. G. Vinogradov
Download or read book Ancient homeland. written by A. G. Vinogradov and published by WP IPGEB. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of outstanding researchers A. G. Vinogradov and S. V. Zharnikova “Ancient homeland. Eastern Europe” is devoted to the study of the ancestral home of the Indo-European peoples: Indian, Iranian, Slavic, Baltic, German, Celtic, Romance, Albanian, Armenian and Greek language groups. Part two of this huge work is devoted to the archeology of the ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans. The origin of their rites and traditions. This problem has been facing science for a long time. This encyclopedic work answers this question. The book was written in 1989-90 but could not be published in Russia. Over the past time, additional materials have appeared that confirm the opinion of the authors.
Download or read book Arctic Peoples written by Robin S. Doak and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the history, culture, and daily lives of the native peoples living in the Arctic regions.
Download or read book The Arctic written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the Arctic, there is no lack of planning, debating, studying, or shortage of opinions as to what the U.S. should or should not do in this region of extremes. Should the United States spend billions on icebreakers that when completed may not have ice to break, ignore the region and hope the rest of the world follows suit, or worse, militarize the region for an unknown future threat? Given the budget-constrained environment and lack of threat to the U.S. national security from the Arctic, is there another option or method to allow policy makers to envision a different future for the Arctic, one requiring them to wait and do nothing, knowing with some certainty that taking no action is the right decision at this moment in time? Using scenario planning, this thesis examines four future scenarios for the Arctic and evaluates the strategic patience and persistence strategy introduced in the 2015 National Security Strategy to understand better the costs, risks, and benefits of doing little or nothing in the Arctic. Given the uncertainties in the Arctic and faced with greater threats to the homeland, the strategic patience and persistence strategy is a viable approach to pursue in the Arctic, which allows the U.S. to achieve its national Arctic goals. I. INTRODUCTION * A. PROBLEM SPACE * 1. Background * 2. National Goals for the Arctic * 3. Summary * B. RESEARCH QUESTION * C. THESIS OUTLINE * II. LITERATURE REVIEW * A. OVERVIEW * B. DIPLOMATIC * C. CLIMATE CHANGE * D. AIR AND MARITIME SAFETY * E. ENERGY SECURITY * F. HOMELAND SECURITY * G. CONCLUSION * III. METHOD * A. SCENARIO PLANNING * 1. Background * 2. Models - Simulations - Games * B. SCENARIOS * 1. Background * 2. Development of Scenarios * 3. Steps to Develop a Scenario * C. CONCLUSION * IV. STRATEGIC PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE STRATEGY * A. KEEPING YOUR POWDER DRY * 1. Theory of Strategy Absence * 2. Decision Avoidance * 3. Real Options * 4. Conclusion * B. A STRATEGY IN SEARCH OF MEANING? * C. CONCLUSION * V. SCENARIOS AND RESULTS * A. INTRODUCTION * B. SCENARIO 1: NEW SPICE ROUTE * C. SCENARIO 2: ARCTIC RENAISSANCE * D. SCENARIO 3: SOCHI AGREEMENT * E. SCENARIO 4: ARCTIC RUSSIAN BEAR * F. SUMMARY * VI. FINDINGS * A. EFFECTIVENESS OF THE STRATEGIC PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE STRATEGY. * 1. New Spice Route Outcome * 2. Arctic Renaissance Outcome * 3. Sochi Agreement Outcome * 4. Arctic Russian Bear Outcome * B. CONCLUSIONS * VII. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS * A. WRAP-UP * B. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS * C. FUTURE RESEARCH / OPEN QUESTIONS
Book Synopsis Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by : Subhankar Banerjee
Download or read book Arctic National Wildlife Refuge written by Subhankar Banerjee and published by Braided River. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic documentation of the necessity to preserve this precious area.
Download or read book Arctic Homeland written by Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inuit of Greenland are a traditional people whose way of life and culture are under threat both from external pressures of development and internal challenges to social cohesion. This study, based on extensive field research, examines their culture and responses to change.
Book Synopsis The Arctic in the Anthropocene by : National Research Council
Download or read book The Arctic in the Anthropocene written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once ice-bound, difficult to access, and largely ignored by the rest of the world, the Arctic is now front and center in the midst of many important questions facing the world today. Our daily weather, what we eat, and coastal flooding are all interconnected with the future of the Arctic. The year 2012 was an astounding year for Arctic change. The summer sea ice volume smashed previous records, losing approximately 75 percent of its value since 1980 and half of its areal coverage. Multiple records were also broken when 97 percent of Greenland's surface experienced melt conditions in 2012, the largest melt extent in the satellite era. Receding ice caps in Arctic Canada are now exposing land surfaces that have been continuously ice covered for more than 40,000 years. What happens in the Arctic has far-reaching implications around the world. Loss of snow and ice exacerbates climate change and is the largest contributor to expected global sea level rise during the next century. Ten percent of the world's fish catches comes from Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that up to 13 percent of the world's remaining oil reserves are in the Arctic. The geologic history of the Arctic may hold vital clues about massive volcanic eruptions and the consequent release of massive amount of coal fly ash that is thought to have caused mass extinctions in the distant past. How will these changes affect the rest of Earth? What research should we invest in to best understand this previously hidden land, manage impacts of change on Arctic communities, and cooperate with researchers from other nations? The Arctic in the Anthropocene reviews research questions previously identified by Arctic researchers, and then highlights the new questions that have emerged in the wake of and expectation of further rapid Arctic change, as well as new capabilities to address them. This report is meant to guide future directions in U.S. Arctic research so that research is targeted on critical scientific and societal questions and conducted as effectively as possible. The Arctic in the Anthropocene identifies both a disciplinary and a cross-cutting research strategy for the next 10 to 20 years, and evaluates infrastructure needs and collaboration opportunities. The climate, biology, and society in the Arctic are changing in rapid, complex, and interactive ways. Understanding the Arctic system has never been more critical; thus, Arctic research has never been more important. This report will be a resource for institutions, funders, policy makers, and students. Written in an engaging style, The Arctic in the Anthropocene paints a picture of one of the last unknown places on this planet, and communicates the excitement and importance of the discoveries and challenges that lie ahead.
Book Synopsis Breaking the Ice by : Barry Scott Zellen
Download or read book Breaking the Ice written by Barry Scott Zellen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain control over their land claims to the Native alienation from the corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in tribalism. He shows that while the forces of modernism and traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by the structures of co-management, corporate development, and self-government created by the region's comprehensive land claims settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into something else altogether in the North: a peaceful force to spawn the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.
Book Synopsis Our Arctic Nation by : Arctic Council
Download or read book Our Arctic Nation written by Arctic Council and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While Alaska is the only U.S. state with land above the Arctic Circle, each of the other 49 states, as well as the District of Columbia, enjoys special links with the Arctic. Each of these- whether scientific, historical, cultural, economic, military, academic, or otherwise- contributes to America's identity as an Arctic nation. It is these connections we sought to highlight through the "Our Arctic Nation" blog in 2016 and now through this book, which features excepts from the blog's 51 entries (all of which can be read in full online). This initiative provided an opportunity for Arctic experts and enthusiasts from across the United States to reveal fascinating- and often surprising- links between our states and the top of our world. We are grateful to the many authors who were willing to share their stories and to the countless others who contributed their time and talent to this effort." -- Page 2, excerpt from text by Ambassador David A. Balton.
Author :Heather A. Conley Publisher :Center for Strategic & International Studies ISBN 13 :9781442224612 Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (246 download)
Book Synopsis The New Foreign Policy Frontier by : Heather A. Conley
Download or read book The New Foreign Policy Frontier written by Heather A. Conley and published by Center for Strategic & International Studies. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, the Arctic has been a region of geostrategic importance to the United States. As unprecedented environmental transformation occurs in the Arctic, this region will increase in significance. When historians look back at this critical opportunity to develop U.S. Arctic policy, we do not want the question to be posed, “Who lost the Arctic?” but rather, “How did the United States win the Arctic?” Crafting U.S. policy toward the Arctic, however, is a complex and challenging undertaking. Arctic policy must respond to the economic, environmental, security, and geopolitical concerns that confront the region. When the Barack Obama administration came into office in January 2009, it accepted and left unchanged the recently adopted Arctic strategy of the George W. Bush administration. In its second term, it is now time for the Obama administration to enhance U.S. Arctic policy by updating and prioritizing National Security Presidential Directive 66/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 25 (NSPD-66/HSPD-25), improving interagency cooperation, enhancing U.S. international and public diplomacy related to the Arctic, and increasing the focus of senior U.S. officials. These activities must begin now if the United States is to prepare for and fully maximize its chairmanship of the Arctic Council beginning in 2015.
Book Synopsis An Arctic Community by : Bobbie Kalman
Download or read book An Arctic Community written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs describe how people live in the Arctic community of Rankin Inlet, Canada.
