TY - BOOK ID - 11358926 TI - Governing the North American Arctic : Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions AU - Berry, Dawn Alexandrea. AU - Bowles, Nigel. AU - Jones, Halbert. PY - 2016 SN - 1349697214 1137493909 1137493917 9781137493910 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Arctic regions KW - Discovery & Exploration KW - Geography KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Government policy KW - Arctic KW - Arctic Ocean Region KW - Arctic, The KW - Far North KW - The Arctic KW - Polar regions KW - Public policy. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Human Geography. KW - Regional planning. KW - Political science. KW - International relations. KW - Public Policy. KW - Environmental Politics. KW - Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. KW - Political Science. KW - International Relations. KW - Coexistence KW - Foreign affairs KW - Foreign policy KW - Foreign relations KW - Global governance KW - Interdependence of nations KW - International affairs KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - World order KW - National security KW - Sovereignty KW - World politics KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Regional development KW - Regional planning KW - State planning KW - Human settlements KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - City planning KW - Landscape protection KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Human ecology KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Human geography. KW - Urban planning. KW - Cities and towns KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Urban planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11358926 AB - Though it has been home for centuries to indigenous peoples who have mastered its conditions, the Arctic has historically proven to be a difficult region for governments to administer. Extreme temperatures, vast distances, and widely dispersed patterns of settlement have made it impossible for bureaucracies based in far-off capitals to erect and maintain the kind of infrastructure and institutions that they have built elsewhere. As climate change transforms the polar regions, this book seeks to explore how the challenges of governance are developing and being met in Alaska, the Canadian Far North, and Greenland, while also drawing upon lessons from the region's past. Though the experience of each of these jurisdictions is unique, their place within democratic, federal systems and the prominence within each of them of issues relating to the rights of indigenous peoples situates them as part of an identifiably 'North American Arctic.' Today, as this volume shows, their institutions are evolving to address contemporary issues of security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and economic development. ER -