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Arctic FROST Young Scholars Panel – Arctic anthropology and sustainability
Sustainability continues to be a widely debated subject. The cross-disciplinary panel “Arctic FROST Young Scholars Panel – Arctic Anthropology and Sustainability” at the Alaska Anthropological Association’s meeting, organised by Alexander Meitz and Susanna Gartler (both University of Vienna, Austria) and funded by Arctic FROST, invited graduate students and other early career scholars to present and discuss their research. This platform allowed six speakers to present their work: Jon Krier (Oregon State University) spoke about “GIS Applications for Predictive Modeling of Submerged Sites”, Josie Oliva and Alexandra Taitt (both University of Alaska Anchorage) presented their research about “Anchorage Sister Cities: Exploring sustainable Arctic connections” and Kate Yeske (Colorado State University) talked about “Communal hunting game drive systems in Alaska”.
Twenty-three researchers representing eight natural and social science disciplines and four partner communities -Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Old Crow, and Arctic Village -examine how the combined effects of climate change, oil development, tourism, and government cutbacks might change the sustainability of Arctic villages. We would like to thank our partner communities for joining us on this study. We worked together to incorporate research and local knowledge-based understandings in a common tool -a SYNTHESIS MODEL -to examine the sensitivity of relationships and assess levels of uncertainty. We discussed possible futures, local policies, and the limitations of science and local knowledge in predicting the future. We modeled vegetation changes, caribou population dynamics, local labor markets, mixed subsistence and cash economies, and oil field-caribou interactions.
25 Years of Sustainability. A Critical Assessment
Present Environment and Sustainable Development, 2014
25 years have passed since the 'Brundtland Report‘ defined sustainability as a possibility to equally meet current and future needs. 15 years later, the author of the definition stated that despite of the fact that the definition does not need to be changed, its understanding bettered off during the interval. 25 years later, the present paper takes an in-depth look at the concept and its practical implications. One of the issues being addressed refers to the pillars of sustainability; their number increased by 25% to include the cultural pillar in addition to the economic, social, and cultural one. Spatial thinking added a new dimension, translating into concepts like 'sustainable communities‘ or 'self standing village‘ at the local level, and 'polycentricity‘ and 'cohesion‘ at the regional one. Furthermore, practical implications include environmental impact assessment (evolving towards strategic impact assessment), internalization of externalities, ecological r...
Horizons of Sustainability in Greenland: Inuit Landscapes of Memory and Vision
Arctic Anthropology, 2004
A close, inseparable, and historical relationship with the land and its resources has become one of the central features of the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world, including the Inuit. The intimate attachment and sense of belonging to the landscape emphasize local bonds to place, as well as the extensive time span in which people have experienced it. This concern with locality is, among other things, framing the political use of local knowledge. Senses of locality and attachment to place have become important ingredients in the sustainability discourse in the Arctic as well as around the world. The article examines conflicts over caribou hunting and dog sledge versus snowmobile use in a discussion of the possibilities and limitations of such an emphasis on locality.
Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts
Helsinki University Press eBooks, 2021
of Google Ngram from English-language corpus 1900-2012 14.1. The globalized food system is a complex system of connection and interconnections between the environment, economy, and society. This figure illustrates some of the many facets and connections present in the overarching global food system 14.2. Major global food systems challenges, highlighting the impacts of agriculture and nutrition inequities. Planetary boundaries show the role of agriculture in all human activities as they impact or surpass safe and high-risk boundaries 14.3. The idealized AES model for Palopuro village from the perspective of nutrient and energy flows 19.1. Icelandic Saga Map, Grettis Saga 19.2. William Morris' Map of Iceland 20.1. Godzilla in Helsinki Harbour, 22 August 2019 20.2. A ship cuts through algae blooms in the northern section of the Baltic Sea, 28 July 2019 20.3. Tanker in the port of Klaipėda discharging water directly into the harbour, 27 July 2019 20.4. Shipping Traffic Density in the Baltic Sea during 2019 20.5. Large areas of algae are experienced when sailing in the Baltic Sea. This is between Gotland and mainland Sweden, 25 July 2018 20.6. The algae particles seen underwater 20.7. Eva Macali, Mohamed Sleiman Labat, and Andrew Paterson relaxing after a hard day. Andy Best and Merja Puustinen in background,
Introduction: Sustainability as a Political Concept in the Arctic
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic, 2018
Introduction to the book Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic, which sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses. Presenting a range of case studies from a number of Arctic countries including Greenland, Norway and Canada, the essays in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, identity and environmental politics.
Sense and Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Studies.
"An anthology of peer-reviewed work resulting from faculty-student collaboration in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University\ This is an edited volume highlighting collaborative research achievements among faculty and students at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University in Toronto, Canada. The book is organized in three sections: Section 1: In our backyard: Toronto and its environs’ Section 2: Beyond our backyard - North America Section 3: Our Global Community A pdf of the introduction "Change Your World(view): A Setting for Interdisciplinary Research and Action" by Femida Handy and Martin Bunch can be downloaded from this site. For a copy of this book contact: Steve Glassman Director, Bookstore, Printing & Mailing Services York University Bookstore 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3 tel: (416) 736-2100 x 33018 fax:(416) 736-5733"