Reference Set Available Soon
"Encyclopedia of the Arctic"
Edited By: Mark Nuttall
ISBN: 1579584365
Expected Publication Date: Friday, 1 October 2004
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Providing rich and detailed essays on the Arctic's environment,
wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics,
indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives, and many
other topics, the "Encyclopedia of the Arctic" is the only major work
and comprehensive A-Z reference source on this vast, complex, changing,
and increasing important part of the globe.
This publication:
- Brings together in one place anthropological, geographical,
historical, political, and environmental information on the Arctic
- Includes maps for each country and political region, locating towns,
rivers, and mountains that have their own entries
- Examines environmental and conservation issues including development
for oil and gas, climate change effects on snow and ice cover, and
health issues related to transport of pollutants from the industrialized
world
- Provides biographies of prominent figures in history, exploration, and
contemporary politics
- Discusses each group of indigenous peoples from Alaska to Siberia,
Fennoscandia and Greenland, and the challenges they face such as land
claims and self-government
- Contains facts and bibliographies on remote places that are hard to
find in English or on the internet such as Russian Arctic islands and
the history of the Siberian labor camps, as well as information about
Arctic communities, and biographies of indigenous political leaders
This Encyclopedia is not only an up-to-date interdisciplinary work of
reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic
issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of
the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues,
sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Mark Nuttall is Henry Marshall Tory Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Alberta, Canada.
A specialist on Northern issues, he has lived and worked in Greenland,
Scotland, Alaska, and Canada. His work is mainly concerned with resource
use management issues and conflicts in rural and coastal communities,
culture and the environment, climate change impacts on indigenous
peoples and their livelihoods, and the international politics of
environmental and sustainability issues.
He worked closely with indigenous peoples' organizations as a lead
author for two key Arctic Council projects, the Arctic Climate Impact
Assessment (ACIA) and the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR), as
well as sitting on the steering committees of both projects. He is also
a lead author of the 'Polar Systems' chapter of the forthcoming
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
He is a Board member of the Copenhagen-based International Work Group
for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), Chair of the International Scientific
Advisory Board for Northern Research, University of Oulu in Finland, a
Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, Calgary, Canada, a
Senior Associate Scientist of the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri,
Iceland and Senior Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute,
University of Cambridge.
He is the author of several books including "Arctic Homeland: kinship,
community and development in northwest Greenland" (1992) and "Protecting
the Arctic: indigenous peoples and cultural survival" (1998) as well as
co-editor of "The Arctic: environment, people, policy" (2000) and
"Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: knowing and managing animals in the
circumpolar North" (2003).