Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Large Scale Environmental Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Large-Scale Environmental Dynamics

      • Christian Nellemann, Ingunn Vistnes

      Pages 3-6

   3. Co2-Release from Permafrost Soils in Relation to Temperature Changes

      • M. Bölter, R. Möller, W. Müller-Lupp

      Pages 7-24

   4. The Kara-Barents Sea Shelf and Its Provinces

      • A. A. Predovsky, V. V. Lyubtsov

      Pages 25-34

   5. Industrial Development and Wildlife in Arctic Ecosystems

      • David R. Klein, Margarita Magomedova

      Pages 35-56

   6. Integrated Approach for Assessment of Polluted Areas

      • Ekaterina Ruth, Mykola Kharytonov

      Pages 57-66

   7. Methodologies for Remote Sensing of The Environmental Impacts of Industrial Activity in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic

      • W. G. Rees, O. Rigina

      Pages 67-88

   8. Oil and Gas Development in the North Sea

      • Mark L. Tasker

      Pages 89-100

   9. Forest Management and Biodiversity

      • Anna-Liisa Sippola

      Pages 101-116

   10. Radioecological Assessment of Forest Ecosystems After Nuclear Accidents

       • A. Dvornik

       Pages 117-128

   11. Environment and Security:

       • C. Nellemann, I. Vistnes, H. Ahlenius, P. Rekacewicz, B. P. Kaltenborn, M. Magomedova et al.

       Pages 129-148

3. Local Environmental Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Local Environmental Dynamics

      • B. C. Forbes

      Pages 151-158

   3. Long-Term Tundra Disturbances: Successful Colonizers

      • G. Peter Kershaw

      Pages 159-171

   4. Long-Term Evaluation of Methods For Rehabilitation of Lands Disturbed by Industrial Development in the Arctic

      • M. T. Jorgenson, J. G. Kidd, T. C. Carter, S. Bishop, C. H. Racine

      Pages 173-190

   5. Ecological Approach to Rehabilitation of Lands Subjected to Air Pollution in the Kola Peninsula

      • Natalia Lukina, Vyacheslav Nikonov

      Pages 191-205

   6. Vegetation Responses to Anthropogenic Disturbance

      • O. I. Sumina, B. C. Forbes

      Pages 207-223

   7. Restoration and Recultivation

      • I. B. Archegova

      Pages 225-234

   8. Succession on Disturbed Habitats

      • N. E. Koroleva

      Pages 235-242

Future development in the Arctic and Subarctic region requires careful attention to the possible consequences of the development activities themselves, in relation to their environmental, socioeconomic and cultural impacts. A more thorough understanding of the impact of future activities, however, demands the dissemination and confrontation of results from different regions and different scientific traditions. This requires scientific cooperation, not only across disciplines but across border. Primarily it requires both consensus and innovations in regard to methods. This book confronts such differences in approaches and methods in relation to the analysis of socioeconomic and environmental consequences of large-scale mineral and energy development activities in the Arctic and Subarctic, establishing the common ground upon which future research activities can be based.

• Air pollution
• Monitoring
• Oil and Gas
• biodiversity
• development
• ecosystems
• environment
• pollution
• vegetation
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• ecotoxicology

• NORS — North Atlantic Regional Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark

  Rasmus Ole Rasmussen

• Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Kola Science Center RAS, Russia

  Natalia E. Koroleva

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