Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm

Environmental / Energy Law

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm

By Sverker Soerlin
Cambridge University Press December 2022

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ISBN-13
9781009100236
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
December 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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
6. How should impacts be assessed?
Gunhild Rosqvist, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Leena Suopajärvi, Carl Österlin

Part III. Affect:
7. Affective approaches – rethinking emotions in resource extraction
Lill Rastad Bjørst, Frank Sejersen, Kirsten Thisted
8. Extraordinary underground: fear, fantasy and future extraction
Vesa-Pekka Herva, Teresa Komu, Tina Paphitis

Part IV. Community:
9. Remediating mining landscapes
Anne-Cathrine Flyen, Dag Avango, Sandra Fischer, Camilla Winqvist
10. Heritage for the future – narrating abandoned mining sites
Dag Avango, Élise Lépy, Malin Brännström, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Teresa Komu, Albina Pashkevich, Carl Österlin
11. Mining towns in transition – Arctic legacies
Judit Malmgren, Dag Avango, Curt Persson, Annika E. Nilsson, Thierry Rodon

Part V. Code:
12. Beyond mining: Repair and reconciliation
Marianne Elisabeth Lie
13. Postscript – Extractivism after the 'New Arctic'
Sverker Sörlin

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