Keywords:
Local officials and employees--Selection and appointment--China.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Arctic is one of the world's regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. This book offers key insights into the history, current state of knowledge and the future of sustainability, and sustainable development, research in the Arctic. Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts, i.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (121 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781351614627
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Polar Regions Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4891014
DDC:
333.720998
Language:
English
Note:
Arctic Sustainability Research- Front Cover -- Arctic Sustainability Research -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Background and purpose -- Note -- Chapter 2: A brief history of sustainability as a concept in the Arctic and beyond -- 2.1 Conceptual beginnings in "Western" thought and early nature protection -- 2.2 Sustainability in the Arctic -- 2.3 Indigenous/local concepts of sustainability and sustainable development -- 2.4 Towards Arctic-based discourses of sustainability -- Notes -- Chapter 3: ICARP II Science Plans: Reflection and assessment -- 3.1 ICARP II Science Plan 1. Arctic economies and sustainable development -- 3.2 ICARP II Science Plan 2. Indigenous peoples: Adaptation, adjustment, and empowerment -- 3.3 ICARP II Science Plan 10. Rapid change, resilience and vulnerability of social-ecological systems of the Arctic -- 3.4 ICARP II Science Plan 11. Arctic science in the public interest -- Chapter 4: Progress in Arctic sustainability research 1: Theoretical developments in Arctic sustainability science -- 4.1 Progress and milestones -- 4.2 Vulnerability, resilience, and sustainability -- 4.3 Vulnerability assessment -- 4.4 Resilience -- 4.5 Arctic sustainability governance -- Chapter 5: Progress in Arctic sustainability research 2: Methodological advances -- 5.1 Transition to more integrated, inter- and transdisciplinary and mixed-method research -- 5.2 Conceptualizing sustainability as both process and outcome -- 5.3 Co-production of knowledge and community-based research -- Chapter 6: Progress in Arctic sustainability research 3: Sustainability indicators -- 6.1 Global sustainability indicator initiatives -- 6.2 Challenges to developing Arctic sustainable development indicators -- Notes.
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Chapter 7: Different spatial scales, global, national, regional, local, and their interconnections with Arctic and non-Arctic regions -- 7.1 Multi-scale sustainability studies within social science -- 7.2 Multi-scale sustainability studies involving natural and social science -- 7.3 Avenues for future research at different scales -- Chapter 8: Agenda 2025: Perspectives on gaps and future research priorities in Arctic sustainability research -- 8.1 Key developments and progress in Arctic sustainability research -- 8.2 Key knowledge gaps -- 8.3 Priorities: Agenda 2025 -- Note -- References -- Index.
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