Mining in Arctic communities (original) (raw)

This book focus on the connections between mining activities, knowledge politics and the valuation of landscape in selected case sites in Russia, Greenland and Norway. In our opinion, it fills a lacuna in the academic literature on mining activities in the north with its specific focus on the interrelated aspects of industrialized development and environmental concerns. This includes exploring the way that politics can help solve environmental problems by paying attention to the way particular knowledge systems (both scientific and public) influence environmental and developmental policies, and how landscape and its value as recreational or occupational space, or harvesting ground, is recognized in the context of mineral extraction and commercialisation processes. The book scrutinizes the way that concepts such as " sustainability " and " sacrifice zones " can be utilized in describing the mining activities and their economic, ecological and social footprints, as well as the political and scientific processes which make mining activities possible. Further, we aim to investigate the interconnectedness between the power to define the meaning and content of these concepts and the way they evoke moral and politicized conclusions as well as analytical ones. Keywords

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