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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm

Author: Sverker Soerlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009100236
Published In: December 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous peoples. This book examines the growing Arctic resource dilemma. It explores the 'new extractivist paradigm' that posits transitioning the region's long-standing role of delivering minerals, fossil energy, and marine resources to one providing rare earth elements, renewable power, wilderness tourism, and scientific knowledge about climate change. With chapters from a global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, new opportunities and their implications for Arctic communities and landscapes are discussed, alongside the pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.

1. The extractivist paradigm – Arctic resources and the planetary mine

Sverker Sörlin

Part I. Extractivism:

2. Patterns of Arctic extractivism – past and present

Sverker Sörlin, Brigt Dale, Arn Keeling, Joan Nymand Larsen

3. Extraction cultures in Svalbard: From mining coal to mining knowledge and memories

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Zdenka Sokolíčkovál

Part II. Impact:

4. Scenarios and surprises: When change is the only given

Annika E. Nilsson, Simo Sarkki

5. Cumulative effects on environment and people

Carl Österlin, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Christian Fohringer, Élise Lépy, Gunhild Rosqvist