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The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North
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Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.
Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate change in the Circumpolar Arctic is affecting and will continue to affect environments, cultures, societies, and economies throughout the world. The contributors discuss a variety of topics, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, community economics, regional development and planning, and political science, as well as biogeophysical sciences such as ecology, human-environmental interactions, and climatology.
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View 4 Sustaining Arctic Breeding Waterbirds: Policy Implications for Temperate Countries Resulting from Arctic Climate Change
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View 5 Arctic Biodiversity: Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna with Excerpts Taken from the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment
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View 6 Is the Climatic Optimum on Its Way Back? Consequences, Measures, and Attitudes Associated with Climate Change in Finland
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View 12 Arctic Wetlands and Limited International Protections: Can the Ramsar Convention Help Meaningfully Address Climate Change?
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View 13 Climate Governance and Arctic Governance: You Can’t Have One Without the Other? Or, What Dual Governance Failures Look Like
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View 15 Livelihood and Resilience in a Marginal Northern Environment: 1,000 Years on the Småland Plateau
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View 17 Effects of Natural and Social Stressors on Human Biology: Northern Sweden in the Little Ice Age
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View 19 Resilience, Reindeer, Oil, and Climate Change: Challenges Facing the Nenets Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic
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View 20 Representations of Environmental Problems and Climate Change: The Case of the Young Inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires
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| ISBN | 9781438475653 |
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| Related ISBN(s) | 9781438475639, 9781438475646 |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.100021 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1119664949 |
| Pages | 472 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2022-03-08 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
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