Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies

Kristoffersen, Berit; Langhelle, Oluf

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3_2

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“…Historically, images of a barren, cold, and seemingly empty Arctic have depicted the region as the northern frontier of human subsistence; a masculine playground for courageous explorers (Bravo and Sörlin 2002, K. Hastrup 2010; K. Hastrup, this volume). The north has also been portrayed as a vast landscape of untapped natural plenty somehow up for grabs: fish, minerals, petroleum, metals, and energy are but some of the potential resources seen as ripe for development by shifting constellations of people, states, and corporations -interchangeably interested in economic growth and green shifts (Kristoffersen and Langhelle 2017). These notions of an untamed frontier and its resource potential are increasingly layered with another image: that of a pristine yet threatened nature.…”

Section: A Liveable North Between Scarcity and Abundancementioning

confidence: 99%

Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Hastrup

Lien

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

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Section: A Liveable North Between Scarcity and Abundancementioning

confidence: 99%

Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Hastrup

Lien

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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“…According to currently using methodology, possible losses of the indigenous peoples should be calculated using the coefficient of conversion of the lost annual gross income into loss of profit, considering the time period of recovery of the disturbed area. However, traditional production cannot be restored unless disturbed natural resources are restored [27]. The existing methodology does not reflect questions about the recipient of compensation (communities, local governments, and public organizations).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Compensation for Losses to Indigenous Peoples Due to the Arctic Industrial Development in Benefit Sharing Paradigm

Gassiy

Potravny

2019

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This article discusses the results of research on the benefit sharing system in Russia focusing on compensation of losses to indigenous peoples due to industrial development in the Arctic. The authors analyzed a Russian case-study on the economic mechanisms of coordination and harmonization of multi-vector and conflicting interests in the process of industrial development of traditional lands. The developed recommendations will allow, on the one hand, compensating the losses of the indigenous communities, and, on the other hand, to engage indigenous peoples in the process of environmental management and socio-economic development of their territories. The object of the research was the Republic of Sakha and the indigenous communities of the remote Anabar region. The calculation of losses was considered. The authors suggest using this tool for the traditional lands development, because it helps to define fair compensation due to project impacts and to form a fund for sustainable community development. The considered project was exploring and extracting placer diamonds in Polovinnaya River in Yakutia. This paper also presents the social poll results organized in the indigenous communities in 2017. The results helped to formulate the recommendations for the business on benefit sharing agreements with Anabar communities.

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“…First, cutting across the above-mentioned impacts on sectors and actors is the by now well-established mantra of the sustainable development of Arctic or Arctic sustainability, which is penetrating policy and academic considerations on the Arctic alike. Next to historical and conceptual contributions on the sustainable development idea(l) [231,232] in relation to different sectors (like oil and gas [34] or shipping [233]) and various Arctic regions [234], some contemplate the necessary policy changes in Arctic states to implement sustainable development [235]. Further, efforts are made to monitor and measure the state and change of human development and well-being in the Arctic in order to provide guidance as to the necessary steps to foster sustainable human development [1,236,237], for example by using knowledge-based economies to further the sustainable development of the Arctic [238], employing ecosystem services approaches to highlight the (monetary) value of Arctic resources and ecosystems [239], or by focusing on the centrality of human-natural systems for achieving sustainability [240].…”

Section: Cross-cutting Themes Of Arctic Societal Impactsmentioning

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Societal Impacts of a Rapidly Changing Arctic

Stephen

2018

Curr Clim Change Rep

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This review article makes six observations about the current body of research on the societal impacts of a changing Arctic. First, climate change and globalisation are the dominant drivers of societal impacts in the Arctic. Second, many contributions focus on the impacts in concrete sectors of society, often from an opportunities-and-risks perspective, which tends to blur the boundary to more policy-oriented work. Third, the mantra of the sustainable development of the Arctic or Arctic sustainability pervades considerations of Arctic societal impacts. Fourth, societal and environment change in the Arctic is increasingly analysed using the image of the Global Arctic, highlighting the inextricable linkages between Arctic and global processes and systems and thus the entangled fate of the North and the entire globe. Fifth, an increasing number of actors is seen as being involved in societal and environmental transformations in the Arctic, often conveyed through the (often ill-defined) stakeholder concept. Sixth, Arctic indigenous peoples are depicted as the group most vulnerable to the societal impacts of a changing Arctic, but are increasingly the subject of research in the form of rights-holders and active participants in governance, law, politics, and research. Challenges for future research include achieving greater clarity and reflexivity around key concepts, and de-essentialising the Arctic via the use of comparative methods on cases both within and beyond the Arctic.

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Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

The Compensation for Losses to Indigenous Peoples Due to the Arctic Industrial Development in Benefit Sharing Paradigm

Societal Impacts of a Rapidly Changing Arctic

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