The Value of the Barents Region:More than a Resource Provider

• Main Author: Casi, Corinna
• Other Authors: Hossain, Kamrul, Roncero Martin, Jose Miguel, Petrétei, Anna
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Brill Nijhoff 2018
• Subjects: Environmental ethics; Ecological Value; Barents Region’s natural resources; nonmarket goods; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/13; Law; Arctic; barents region
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/b5f51bbc-da42-4644-ae27-5a53b53c7352; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363045_008; https://brill.com/view/title/36346

The chapter "The Value of the Barents Region: More than a Resource Provider" offers an account of the environmental non-economic value of the Barents region from an ecological perspective. The text provides a critique of the interpretation of environmental issues as if they would be economic ones. Generally conceived as a territory reach in natural resources therefore source of economic profits, the Barents region is instead a unique natural environment worth of protection and respect. Many of its aspects, such as mire and old-grow forests, contribute to the sustainability of the whole planet. Moreover the Indigenous inhabitants of the Barents Regions, who often are not considered in the decision-making of their native land, provide an incalculable help to its well-being.