Governing Arctic Change: Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Kathrin Keil, Sebastian Knecht (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Leading and emerging scholars in Arctic research investigate the international causes and consequences of contemporary Arctic developments, and assess how both state and non-state actors respond to crucial problems for the global community. Long treated as a remote and isolated region, climate change and economic prospects have put the Arctic at the forefront of political agendas from the local to the global level, and this book tackles the variety of involved actors, institutional politics, relevant policy issues, as well as political imaginaries related to a globalizing Arctic. It covers new institutional forms of various stakeholder engagement on multiple levels, governance strategies to combat climate change that affect the Arctic region sooner and more strongly than other regions, the pros and cons of Arctic resource development for the region and beyond, and local and trans-boundary pollution concerns. Given the growing relevance of the Arctic to international environmental, energy and security politics, the volume helps to explain how the region is governed in times of global nexuses, multi-level politics and multi-stakeholderism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction: The Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies....Pages 21-41
Reimagining Political Space: The Limits of Arctic Indigenous Self-Determination in International Governance?....Pages 43-57
Globalising the Arctic Climate: Geoengineering and the Emerging Global Polity....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Coping with Institutional Challenges for Arctic Environmental Governance....Pages 81-99
Global Environmental Governance and Treaty-Making: The Arctic’s Fragmented Voice....Pages 101-120
Preparing for the Global Rush: The Arctic Council, Institutional Norms, and Socialisation of Observer Behaviour....Pages 121-139
Bazaar Governance: Situating the Arctic Circle....Pages 141-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Exploring Different Levels of Stakeholder Activity in International Institutions: Late Bloomers, Regular Visitors, and Overachievers in Arctic Council Working Groups....Pages 163-185
Non-State Actors in Arctic Council Governance....Pages 187-206
Non-Arctic States and Their Stake in Arctic Sustainability....Pages 207-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Clean Air and White Ice: Governing Black Carbon Emissions Affecting the Arctic....Pages 231-256
Voyage Through the North: Domestic and International Challenges to Arctic Shipping....Pages 257-278
The Arctic in a Global Energy Picture: International Determinants of Arctic Oil and Gas Development....Pages 279-299
Conclusion: Governing the Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space....Pages 301-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-319

✦ Subjects

International Organization;Diplomacy;Globalization;Comparative Politics;Foreign Policy