Multiple Resources Available

Multiple Resources Available

1. Free Access Available
   Polar Research Journal
   Norwegian Polar Institute

2. Book Available
   Making a Living: Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
   By: Nicole Gombay

3. Report Available
   Protecting Arctic Biodiversity
   United Nations Environment Programme

1. Free Access Available
   Polar Research Journal
   Norwegian Polar Institute

Polar Research, an international peer-reviewed journal of the Norwegian
Polar Institute, became an open-access journal 1 January 2011. Readers
around the world will now have free access to scientific articles on
climate, biodiversity, polar history, and other diverse topics
investigated in the polar regions.

Aiming to promote the exchange of scientific knowledge about the Arctic
and Antarctic across disciplinary boundaries, Polar Research has served
an international community of researchers since 1982. As part of the
journal's transition, Polar Research is moving to the specialized
open-access publisher, Co-Action Publishing. Polar Research will
continue to be edited by Helle V. Goldman of the Norwegian Polar
Institute and an international board of Subject Editors, with support
from an international Editorial Advisory Panel.

Polar Research will be available in an electronic edition only. The
journal's archive will be available through the new website as well as
through the former publisher's platform.

For further information, please go to the new Polar Research website,
at: http://www.polarresearch.net.

2. Book Available
   Making a Living: Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
   By: Nicole Gombay

A book entitled "Making a Living: Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit
Community" is now available. The book is written by Nicole Gombay, from
the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Although food is vital to our daily lives, we tend to be unaware of the
particulars of where it came from and how it was produced. We simply go
to the market and buy what we need in neatly packaged containers. But
what was required to get that food there in the first place? In some
societies obtaining food is not merely a matter of going to market.
Instead it involves the active participation of community members in its
harvesting, distributing, and sharing so that ideally no one goes
without. Such is the case of many Indigenous communities, including
Puvirnituq, the Inuit settlement in Northern Quebec that is the setting
for this book.

In "Making a Living," the author documents her experiences and personal
reactions while living in Puvirnituq. Quoting local residents and
drawing upon academic literature, she explores how some Inuit are
experiencing the inclusion of the market into their economy of sharing.
While the subject of the study is the Inuit community of Puvirnituq, the
issues the author addresses are equally applicable to many Indigenous
communities as they wrestle with how to incorporate the workings of a
monetized economy into their own notions of how to operate as a society.
In the process, they are forging new ways of making a living even as
they endeavor to maintain long-standing practices. This book will be of
interest to anyone concerned with the struggles of maintaining local
values in the face of market forces.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.purichpublishing.com/?module=swm_ecommerce&ecommCategoryID=1.

3. Report Available
   Protecting Arctic Biodiversity
   United Nations Environment Programme

A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report entitled
"Protecting Arctic Biodiversity: Limitations and strengths of
environmental agreements" is available online, at:
http://www.grida.no/publications/arctic-biodiversity/.

The report takes a broad view of existing multilateral environmental
agreements (MEAs) and examines the role of the global environment in
impacting and influencing the efficiency of arctic MEAs in protecting
biodiversity and in sustainable development. The report allows governing
and scientific bodies of MEAs, as well as national decision-makers, to
better direct their programs of work and other activities to address the
needs of arctic biodiversity and the region's local and Indigenous
Peoples.

For further information or to download the full report, please go to:
http://www.grida.no/publications/arctic-biodiversity/.