Governing Arctic Change, 1st ed. 2017 Global Perspectives

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Leading and emerging scholars in Arctic research investigate the international causes and consequences of contemporary Arctic developments, and assess how both state and non-state actors respond to crucial problems for the global community. Long treated as a remote and isolated region, climate change and economic prospects have put the Arctic at the forefront of political agendas from the local to the global level, and this book tackles the variety of involved actors, institutional politics, relevant policy issues, as well as political imaginaries related to a globalizing Arctic. It covers new institutional forms of various stakeholder engagement on multiple levels, governance strategies to combat climate change that affect the Arctic region sooner and more strongly than other regions, the pros and cons of Arctic resource development for the region and beyond, and local and trans-boundarypollution concerns. Given the growing relevance of the Arctic to international environmental, energy and security politics, the volume helps to explain how the region is governed in times of global nexuses, multi-level politics and multi-stakeholderism.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space; Kathrin Keil and Sebastian Knecht.- Part I. Imaginaries: How to Envision the Arctic in a Global Context?.- Chapter 2. Sustainable Development as a Global-Arctic Matter: Imaginaries and Controversies; Berit Kristoffersen and Oluf Langhelle.- Chapter 3. Reimagining Political Space: The Limits of Arctic Indigenous Self-Determination in International Governance?; Jessica M. Shadian.- Chapter 4. Globalising the Arctic Climate: Geoengineering and the Emerging Global Polity; Olaf Corry.- Part II. Institutional Politics: How to Organise a Global Arctic?.- Chapter 5. Coping with Institutional Challenges for Arctic Environmental Governance; Christoph Humrich.- Chapter 6. Global Environmental Governance and Treaty-Making: The Arctic’s Fragmented Voice; Henrik Selin.- Chapter 7. Preparing for the Global Rush: The Arctic Council, Institutional Norms and Socialisation of Observer Behaviour; Piotr Graczyk, Małgorzata Śmieszek, Timo Koivurova and Adam Stępień.- Chapter 8. Bazaar Governance: Situating the Arctic Circle; Duncan Depledge and Klaus Dodds.- Part III. Involvement: Who Participates in Global Arctic Governance?.- Chapter 9. Exploring Different Levels of Stakeholder Activity in International Institutions: Late Bloomers, Regular Visitors and Overachievers in Arctic Council Working Groups; Sebastian Knecht.- Chapter 10. Non-state Actors in Arctic Council Governance; Dorothea Wehrmann.- Chapter 11. Non-Arctic States and their Stake in Arctic Sustainability; Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd.- Part IV. Issues: What is the Global Arctic all about?.- Chapter 12. Clean Air and White Ice: Governing Black Carbon Emissions affecting the Arctic; Carolina Cavazos-Guerra, Axel Lauer and Erika Rosenthal.- Chapter 13. Voyage through the North: Domestic and International Challenges to Arctic Shipping; Arild Moe.- Chapter 14. The Arctic in a Global Energy Picture: International Determinants of Arctic Oil and Gas Development; Kathrin Keil.- Chapter 15. Conclusion: Governing the Arctic as a Globally Embedded Space; Sebastian Knecht and Kathrin Keil.                                                                         

Offers a theory-driven and empirically sound analysis of Arctic global networks, discourses and policies Examines all participating actors in Arctic governance, including non-Arctic states, international organizations, and indigenous groups Appeals to students and scholars of governance, international relations, political geography, international law, and climatology