The Arctic : what everyone needs to know /

The Arctic : what everyone needs to know /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dodds, Klaus, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Description:	xiii, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	What everyone needs to know What everyone needs to know.
Subject:	Arctic peoples. Environmental degradation -- Arctic regions. Conservation of natural resources -- Arctic regions. Arctic peoples. Conservation of natural resources. Environmental degradation. Arctic regions. Arctic regions -- Environmental conditions. Arctic Regions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11884426

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Other authors / contributors:	Nuttall, Mark, author.
ISBN:	9780190649814 019064981X 9780190649807 0190649801
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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. "--

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xiii, 252 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780190649814 019064981X 9780190649807 0190649801