UID:
almahu_9949419517202882
Format:
1 online resource (474 pages).
ISBN:
1-4384-7565-9
Series Statement:
SUNY series in environmental governance
Content:
Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate change in the Circumpolar Arctic is affecting and will continue to affect environments, cultures, societies, and economies throughout the world. The contributors discuss a variety of topics, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, community economics, regional development and planning, and political science, as well as biogeophysical sciences such as ecology, human-environmental interactions, and climatology.
Note:
In the vortex of the thaw : general introduction -- Red sky in morning, sailors take warning : forewarnings from a thawing Arctic -- Will action on short-lived climate forcers give the Arctic time to adapt? -- Sustaining arctic breeding waterbirds : policy implications for temperate countries resulting from arctic climate change -- Arctic biodiversity : conservation of arctic flora and fauna with excerpts taken from the arctic biodiversity assessment -- Is the climatic optimum on its way back? Consequences, measures, and attitudes associated with climate change in Finland -- Teleconnecting the great thaw -- One law to rule them all : arctic climate change policy and legal realities -- Regulating in the face of a changing world : legal regulation of climate change -- Avoiding genocide : factors applicable to adaptation planning for arctic Indigenous Peoples -- Geopower and sea ice : encounters with the geopolitical stage -- Arctic wetlands and limited international protections : can the Ramsar Convention help meaningfully address climate change? -- Climate governance and arctic governance : you can't have one without the other? Or, what dual governance failures look like -- Polar communities and cultures in address climate change -- Livelihood and resilience in a marginal northern environment : 1,000 years on the Småland Plateau -- The Holocene catastrophe -- Effects of natural and social stressors on human biology : Northern Sweden in the Little Ice Age -- Surviving climate change : Yup'ik indigenous environmental knowledge, a film project -- Resilience, reindeer, oil, and climate change : challenges facing the Nenets indigenous people in the Russian arctic -- Representations of environmental problems and climate change : the case of the young inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires -- Future? -- Conclusion: Elegy for the Arctic?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-7564-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-7563-2
Language:
English
