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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.

Natural resources --- Arctic regions --- Economic conditions. --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Economic aspects --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Arctic, The --- Far North --- The Arctic --- Polar regions

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Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as “smart cities,” “eco-cities,” and “resilience,” and proposing a “science of cities” based largely on information from the Global North. Grounding Urban Natures makes the case for the importance of place and time in understanding urban environments. Rather than imposing a unified framework on the ecology of cities, the contributors use a variety of approaches across a range of of locales and timespans to examine how urban natures are part of — and are shaped by — cities and urbanization. Grounding Urban Natures offers case studies from cities on five continents that demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments. The contributors consider the diversity of urban natures, analyzing urban ecologies that range from the coastal delta of New Orleans to real estate practices of the urban poor in Lagos. They examine the effect of popular movements on the meanings of urban nature in cities including San Francisco, Delhi, and Berlin. Finally, they explore abstract urban planning models and their global mobility, examining real-world applications in such cities as Cape Town, Baltimore, and the Chinese “eco-city” Yixing. Contributors Martín Ávila, Amita Baviskar, Jia-Ching Chen, Henrik Ernstson, James Evans, Lisa M. Hoffman, Jens Lachmund, Joshua Lewis, Lindsay Sawyer, Sverker Sörlin, Anne Whiston Spirn, Lance van Sittert, Richard A. Walker

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- Environmental aspects --- Sociology of environment --- Social geography --- urban sociology --- urbanization --- human ecology --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- environmental studies --- environmental history --- urban ecology --- urban studies --- urbanism --- southern urbanism --- postcolonial studies --- worlding --- comparative urban environmentalism --- urban environmental history --- citizen science --- urban political ecology --- more-than-human --- infrastructure --- New Orleans --- urban ecosystems --- Louisiana --- hybridity --- Lagos --- Nigeria --- megacity --- contestation --- beautification --- landscape --- language --- literacy --- water --- landscape architecture --- urban design --- urban planning --- collectives --- political ecology --- affective ecology --- design-driven research --- speculation --- environmentalism --- conservation --- nature --- green cities --- San Francisco --- China --- volunteers --- environment --- citizen mobilization --- invasive species --- Delhi --- India --- green areas --- Berlin --- urban gardening --- South Africa --- Cape Town --- Rondevlei --- birds --- sanctuary --- Middlemiss --- Langley --- resilience --- ecological governance --- transformation --- experiments --- eco-urbanization --- rural transformation --- spatial planning --- dispossession --- situating --- articulating --- texturizing --- retrosembling --- Cordoba --- Baltimore

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