1st Edition
Arctic Oil and Gas Sustainability at Risk?
408 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
404 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
408 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The focus is on the territories of the Arctic rim where the current and future oil and gas activities in the Arctic are and will be located. The book raises a number of questions including how sustainable development has been framed... Read more
1. Introduction, 2. Framing Oil and Gas in the Arctic from a Sustainable Development Perspective, 3. Climate Change and Consequences for the Arctic, 4. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): The economic and institutional responsibility of business, 5. Framework and Methodology: Regulation and discourse analysis as a research strategy, 6. Legal and Institutional Framework: A comparitive analysis, 7. Expanding Oil and Gas Activities on the North Slope of Alaska, 8. Oil and Gas Activities at the Mackenzie Delta, in Canada's North-West Territories, 9. Going North: The new petroleum province of Norway, 10. The Russian Model: Merging profit and sustainability, 11. Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic; What implications for the Oil and Gas Industry?, 12. Perceptions of Arctic Challenges: Alaska, Canada, Norway and Russia compared,13. Managerial Implications
Biography
Aslaug Mikkelsen is Rector of the University of Stavanger in Norway. Oluf Langhelle is Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger in Norway.
