- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Introduction A Cold Prelude to a Warming World -
Part One The Law: Legal Structures in Polar Regions -
1. Polar Environmental Governance and Nonstate Actors -
2. Interlinkages in International Law: The Convention on Biological Diversity as a Model for Linking Territory, Environment, and Indigenous Rights in the Marine Arctic -
3. An Erosion of Confidence? The Antarctic Treaty System in the Twenty-first Century -
4. Invasive Species in the Arctic: Concerns, Regulations, and Governance -
5. Managing Polar Policy through Public and Private Regulatory Standards: The Case of Tourism in the Antarctic -
Part Two Critical Actors: Power Dynamics and Driving Forces in Polar Regions -
6. From Energy to Knowledge? Building Domestic Knowledge-Based Sectors around Hydro Energy in Iceland and Greenland -
7. Arctic Melting Tests the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -
8. Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic -
9. Connecting China through “Creative Diplomacy”: Greenland, Australia, and Climate Cooperation in Polar Regions -
10. Security in the Arctic: A Receding Wall -
Part Three Community: Human Rights, Indigenous Politics, and Collective Learning -
11. Using Human Rights to Improve Arctic Governance -
12. Cooperative Food Sharing in Sheshatshiu: Uncovering Scenarios to Support the Emergent Capacity of Northern Communities -
13. Crossing the Land of Indigenous People in the Arctic: Comparison of Russian and North American Experiences of Economic Growth and Human Rights in Energy and Infrastructure Projects -
14. Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings -
15. From Northern Studies to Circumpolar Studies: In the Field and in the Ether - Epilogue
- Selected Resources
- Contributors
- Index
Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings
Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings
- Chapter:
- (p.213) 14. Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings
- Source:
- Diplomacy on Ice
- Author(s):
Glenn W. Sheehan
Anne M. Jensen
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter addresses the challenges faced by indigenous groups, often rural and small in number, in dealing with the issues involved in Arctic protection and development, through a case study of the North Slope Borough of Alaska. Difficulties include limited local capacity (due to small populations, high job turnover, and limited educational opportunities), regulation by distant bureaucrats who may never have visited the area, a cultural mismatch between the standard methods of receiving public comment and local conventions of proper behaviour, dismissal of local and traditional ecological knowledge, “Arctic experts” whose lack of understanding of the total cultural and subsistence system leads to solving one problem by creating another, and an overwhelming imbalance in resources and expertise between industries wishing to develop an area and the local government and local residents.
Keywords: local capacity, Alaska North Slope, traditional ecological knowledge, development, regulatory compliance
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Introduction A Cold Prelude to a Warming World -
Part One The Law: Legal Structures in Polar Regions -
1. Polar Environmental Governance and Nonstate Actors -
2. Interlinkages in International Law: The Convention on Biological Diversity as a Model for Linking Territory, Environment, and Indigenous Rights in the Marine Arctic -
3. An Erosion of Confidence? The Antarctic Treaty System in the Twenty-first Century -
4. Invasive Species in the Arctic: Concerns, Regulations, and Governance -
5. Managing Polar Policy through Public and Private Regulatory Standards: The Case of Tourism in the Antarctic -
Part Two Critical Actors: Power Dynamics and Driving Forces in Polar Regions -
6. From Energy to Knowledge? Building Domestic Knowledge-Based Sectors around Hydro Energy in Iceland and Greenland -
7. Arctic Melting Tests the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -
8. Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic -
9. Connecting China through “Creative Diplomacy”: Greenland, Australia, and Climate Cooperation in Polar Regions -
10. Security in the Arctic: A Receding Wall -
Part Three Community: Human Rights, Indigenous Politics, and Collective Learning -
11. Using Human Rights to Improve Arctic Governance -
12. Cooperative Food Sharing in Sheshatshiu: Uncovering Scenarios to Support the Emergent Capacity of Northern Communities -
13. Crossing the Land of Indigenous People in the Arctic: Comparison of Russian and North American Experiences of Economic Growth and Human Rights in Energy and Infrastructure Projects -
14. Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings -
15. From Northern Studies to Circumpolar Studies: In the Field and in the Ether - Epilogue
- Selected Resources
- Contributors
- Index