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Dependency, Autonomy, Sustainability in the Arctic
Edited by Hanne Petersen and Birger Poppel
ISBN: 1-84014-701-6
1999 392 pages
$78.95 Hardback

Dependency, Autonomy, Sustainability in the Arctic deals with issues,
processes and values which have been of general importance in the 20th
century, and which have become especially important in the Arctic region
during the last few decades. It employs a regional perspective, and as such
deals with issues of special relevance and pertinence for populations in the
Arctic.

The problems and perspectives are however also of interest for indigenous
peoples in general, as well as relevant for populations living under
different types of self-government and home rule regimes. The book focuses
upon the interrelation between concepts of political and economic concepts
of dependency and autonomy and the concept of sustainability.

  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction Hanne Petersen, Birger Poppel

Part I: Regional Perspectives

  • Autonomy, Dependency and Sustainability: A Greenland Perspective
    Lars Emil Johansen
  • The Nunavut Land Claim and the Nunavut Government:
    Political Structures of Self-Government in Canada's Eastern Arctic
    Jack Hicks
  • Autonomous Regions and Indigenous Rights in Transition
    in Northern Russia
    Gail Fondahl
  • Envisioning a Sustainable Arctic: Nunavut in Contrast to the
    Russian North
    Richard Langlais
  • Towards a 'Post-Sovereign' Political Landscape?
    Bjarne Lindstrom

Part II: Home Rule In Greenland

  • Social Conditions for Sustainable Development
    Torben Agersnap
  • Performing Mimetic Administrative Law under Home Rule
    Hanne Petersen
  • Perspectives in the Development of Greenlandic Administration
    Kaspar Lytthans
  • The Role of Social Science in the Administration of a Sustainable
    Democracy
    Agnete Weis Bentzon
  • The Historical Development of the Greenlandic Judicial System
    Mille Sovndahl Pedersen
  • Social Democratism and the Development of Greenland
    Jes Adolphsen, Tom Greiffenberg
  • The Affinity between Ownership and Social Coordination Mechanisms
    in Greenland
    Gorm Winther
  • From Home Rule to Independence - New Opportunities for a New Generation
    in Greenland
    Ivar Jonsson
  • Greenlandic Schools under Home Rule - Building the Greenlandic Nation and
    Transnational Regional Cooperation?
    Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt
  • Cultural Conditions for Greenland as an Information Society
    Klaus Georg Hansen

Part III: Sustainability, Culture And Resources

  • Conditions for Sustainable Development in the Arctic a General
    Perspective
    Rasmus Ole Rasmussen
  • Nature Management: Kill and Care. Reflections on the Origins of a
    Controversy
    Finn Lynge
  • Culture as a Resource for Self-Determination
    Jens Dahl
  • The Socio-cultural Importance of Sealhunting
    Soren Stachie Nielsen
  • Language and Sustainable Development
    Carl Christian Olsen
  • Sustainability, Knowledge and Knowing what to do
    Andreas Roepstorff
  • Localised Knowledge Elements in Central Learning processes
    in Industrial Innovation
    Soren Eliasen
  • Joik and the Theory of Knowledge
    Ande Somby
  • Sustainable Development and Mass Media in the Arctic:
    The Case of the Inuit Circumpolar Communications Commission
    Marianne Stenbæk
  • Data Sources on Aboriginal Populations in Canada:
    What do they tell us about Sustainable Development?
    Andrew J. Siggner
  • A Circumpolar Study of Living Conditions among Inuit and Saami
    Populations
    Thomas
  • A Study of Environmental Conflicts and Societal Consequences of Oil
    Activities in the Arctic
    Jorn Berglund Nielsen
  • Subsistence versus Commercial Use of the Living Natural Resources in
    the Greenlandic Municipalities
    Per Lyster
  • Conditions for a Sustainable Development-Some Experiences from the
    Norwegian Fishing Industry
    Bjorn Hersoug
  • Sustainable Development for Post-Sovereign Small Economies
    Lise Lyck
  • From Sustainability to Reality via Law
    Hakan Hyden

The book is available from
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840147016 or
http://www.ashgate.com/html/bookdetail.cfm?isbn=1840147016

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Kalaallit Nunaanni Natsorsueqqissartarfik
Grønlands Statistik/Statistics Greenland

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