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The Arctic

What Everyone Needs to Know®

by (author) Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2019
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780190649807
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $20.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780190649814
    Publish Date
    Jul 2019
    List Price
    $81.50

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Description

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy - for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting lines are only made murkier by the threat of global climate change. In the Arctic Ocean, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life and raise sea levels globally.

In The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance, among other crucial topics.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Antarctica: A Very Short Introduction.

Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair of Anthropology at the University of Alberta.