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Introduction: The Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space Read chapter Read first chapter

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2. Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies

Authors : Berit Kristoffersen, Oluf Langhelle

Published in: Governing Arctic Change

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter investigates Arctic imaginaries embedded in the sustainable development discourse and discusses various potential conceptual and political meanings of the concept in an Arctic context. The chapter thereby identifies and assesses complementarities and inconsistencies between three prevailing imaginaries of the Arctic as a ‘resource frontier’, a ‘nature reserve’ and a ‘homeland’ to indigenous communities. The authors place these imaginaries between the local and the global dimensions of Arctic change and discuss the implications of a global approach to sustainable development for the Arctic as a region (‘the Global in the Arctic’) and, in turn, the specific challenges for sustainable development seen from the Arctic (‘the Arctic in the Global’).

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Metadata
Title
Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies
Authors
Berit Kristoffersen
Oluf Langhelle
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Governing Arctic Change

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-50883-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-50884-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3_2