Nordic Perspectives on the Responsible Development of the Arctic: Pathways to Action

1. Front Matter

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Introduction

      • Douglas C. Nord

      Pages 3-21

   3. NordForsk as a Facilitator of Integrated Research on the Arctic

      • Gunnel Gustafsson

      Pages 23-45

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. CLINF: Climate-Change Effects on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and the Associated Impacts on Northern Societies

      • Birgitta Evengård, Tomas Thierfelder

      Pages 49-70

   3. CLINF: An Integrated Project Design

      • Tomas Thierfelder, Birgitta Evengård

      Pages 71-92

   4. Modeling Climate Sensitive Infectious Diseases in the Arctic

      • Gia Destouni, Zahra Kalantari, Shaun Quegan, Didier Leibovici, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jaakko Ikonen

      Pages 93-111

   5. Reindeer Herding and Coastal Pastures: Adaptation to Multiple Stressors and Cumulative Effects

      • Grete K. Hovelsrud, Camilla Risvoll, Jan Åge Riseth, Hans Tømmervik, Anna Omazic, Ann Albihn

      Pages 113-134

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. The ARCPATH Project: Assessing Risky Environments and Rapid Change: Research on Climate, Adaptation and Coastal Communities in the North Atlantic Arctic

      • Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Yongqi Gao, Níels Einarsson, Noel Keenlyside, Leslie A. King

      Pages 137-156

   3. The Climate Model: An ARCPATH Tool to Understand and Predict Climate Change

      • Shuting Yang, Yongqi Gao, Koenigk Torben, Noel Keenlyside, François Counillon

      Pages 157-180

   4. Whale Ecosystem Services and Co-production Processes Underpinning Human Wellbeing in the Arctic: Case Studies from Greenland, Iceland and Norway

      • Laura Malinauskaite, David Cook, Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir, Helga Ögmundardóttir

      Pages 181-202

   5. “Small Science”: Community Engagement and Local Research in an Era of Big Science Agendas

      • Catherine Chambers, Leslie A. King, David Cook, Laura Malinauskaite, Margaret Willson, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie et al.

      Pages 203-224

5. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Project ReiGN: Reindeer Husbandry in a Globalizing North–Resilience, Adaptations and Pathways for Actions

      • Øystein Holand, Jon Moen, Jouko Kumpula, Annette Löf, Sirpa Rasmus, Knut Røed

      Pages 227-248

   3. What Drives the Number of Semi-domesticated Reindeer? Pasture Dynamics and Economic Incentives in Fennoscandian Reindeer Husbandry

      • Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Jouko Kumpula, Olli Tahvonen

      Pages 249-270

   4. Reindeer Herders as Stakeholders or Rights-Holders? Introducing a Social Equity-Based Conceptualization Relevant for Indigenous and Local Communities

      • Simo Sarkki, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Annette Löf

      Pages 271-292

   5. Working Together: Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Effort of Co-producing Knowledge on Supplementary Feeding in Reindeer Husbandry Across Fennoscandia

      • Tim Horstkotte, Élise Lépy, Camilla Risvoll

      Pages 293-317

6. Part V

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319

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This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today’s Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region. It focuses its attention on the recent efforts of the Nordic community to create specialized Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research in order to facilitate this process of scientific inquiry and policy articulation. The volume seeks to describe both the steps that lead to this decision and the manner in which this undertaking as evolved.   

The work highlights the research efforts of the four Centers and their investigations of a variety of issues including those related to ecosystem and wildlife management, the revitalization resource dependent communities, the emergence of new climate-born diseases and the development of adequate modeling techniques to assist northern communities in their efforts at adaptation and resilience building.  Major discoveries and insights arising from these and other efforts are detailed and possible policy implications considered.

 The book also focuses attention on the challenges of creating and supporting multidisciplinary teams of researchers to investigate such concerns and the methods and means for facilitating their collaboration and the integration of their findings to form new and useful perspectives on the nature of change in the contemporary Arctic.  It also provides helpful consideration and examples of how local and indigenous communities can be engaged in the co-production of knowledge regarding the region.

 The volume discusses how such research findings can be best communicated and shared between scientists, policymakers and northern residents.  It considers the challenges of building common concern not just among different research disciplines but also between bureaucracies and the public. Only when this bridge-building effort is undertaken can true pathways to action be established.         

• Polar and environmental research
• Circumpolar communities
• Nordic Arctic
• Indigenous communities and residents of the Arctic
• Resilience building, ecosystems and wildlife management
• Nordic community and Centers of Excellence
• polar geography
• climate change
• area studies
• world regional geography

• Department of Political Science, Umea University, Umeå, Sweden

  Douglas C. Nord

Professor Douglas C. Nord is an established scholar in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. His areas of specialty include the foreign and northern development policies of Canada, the Nordic states and Russia as well as the United States. He has written extensively on the relations between the countries of the circumpolar north and on the emergence of the Arctic as a central concern of contemporary international politics. Professor Nord has taught and undertaken research inquiries at various educational institutions across the region. He presently conducts his studies at the University of Umeå in Sweden where he is an associated research professor at the Arctic Research Centre (ARCUM). He has recently published two volumes on the Arctic Council: The Changing Arctic: Creating a Framework for Consensus Building within the Arctic Council (2016) and The Arctic Council: Governance within the Far North (2016).

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