1st Edition
Resources, Social and Cultural Sustainabilities in the Arctic
Chapter 1 Sustainabilities in the resourceful North
Hanna Lempinen, Monica Tennberg and Susanna Pirnes
Part I Entangled resources and sustainabilities
Chapter 2 Greenland and the elusive better future: the affective merging of resources and independence
Marjo Lindroth
Chapter 3 Promise and threat: living with nuclear in the Finnish context
Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo
Chapter 4 Untied resource as a threa/-t/-d for social fabric(ation)
Joonas Vola
Chapter 5 "Prudent development:" the (r)evolution of the Arctic energy concern in the 2007–2017 Arctic Energy Summit Reports
Hanna Lempinen
Chapter 6 Socially Responsible Investments (SRIs) in the European Arctic: new pathways for global investors to outperform conventional capital investments?
Adrian Braun
Chapter 7 Resources on the Arctic border: views of the Finnish municipalities and the EU`s cross-border program
Paula Tulppo
Part II Whose imaginaries?
Chapter 8 The political ecology of northern adaptation: power, nature and knowledge
Gemma Holt
Chapter 9 Arctic expertise and its social dimensions in Lapland
Monica Tennberg
Chapter 10 When gender matters: equality as a source of Arctic sustainability?
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
Chapter 11 Sámi cultural heritage and tourism in Finland
Francis Joy
Chapter 12 History as a resource in Russian Arctic politics
Susanna Pirnes
Chapter 13 The resourceful North: divergent imaginaries from the European Arctic
Monica Tennberg, Hanna Lempinen and Susanna Pirnes
Index
Biography
Monica Tennberg, a research professor, conducts research about Arctic political economy: that is, about connections between wealth, power and well-being. She has recently contributed to the book Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic – Perspectives from the Barents Area (2017).
Hanna Lempinen is a university lecturer in political science at the University of Lapland, Finland, and a visiting senior researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. Her research interests include social and cultural aspects of sustainability, especially in the context of Arctic large-scale energy and industrial development. Her book Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability was published by Palgrave in 2018.
Susanna Pirnes is a doctoral candidate in political science. Her research interests are related to the Russian Arctic, Arctic identities, memories and history politics.
