Books in the Routledge Research in Polar Regions series

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic aimed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new, meaningful ways.

This book provides the first in-depth, multidisciplinary study of re-urbanization in RussiaΓÇÖs Arctic regions, with a specific focus on new mobility patterns, and the resulting birth of new urban Arctic identities in which newcomers and labor migrants form a rising part of. It is an invaluable reference for all those interested in current trends in circumpolar regions, showing how the Arctic region is becoming more diverse culturally, but also more integrated into globalized trends in terms of economic development, urban sustainability and migration.

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil and gas which is only set to increase. This book examines the relationship between Arctic communities and extractive resource development. Authors examine this relationship to better understand what, if anything, can be done in order for the development of non-renewable resources to be of benefit to the long-term sustainability of these communities.This book is a summary of issues surrounding resource extraction in the Arctic, and will be an essential reading for anyone interested in environmental impact assessments, globalization and Indigenous communities, and the future of the Arctic region.

This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland¿s economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention. It offers multidisciplinary insights from economists, sociologists, and political scientists to show how Greelandic economy works.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.

This first scholarly edited volume based on field research with Arctic Youth from three continents contributes to a theory of well-being and place-making grounded in the Arctic ¿ a region usually associated more with hostile conditions for human inhabitation.

The Future of the Arctic Human Population seeks to explore the challenges of Arctic migration, immigrants and refugees and how integrated societies can be developed. Moreover, it discusses disparities between regions on policies and their implementation.