Towards environmental justice for a changing Arctic and its original peoples

• Main Author: Shaw, Alana
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Justice; Culture-Nature Divide; Iñupiaq Traditional Knowledge and Values; Arctic Offshore Drilling; Arctic; Heynen; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36651; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/shaw_alana_201605_phd

Rising temperatures in the Arctic are spawning a new era of industrial interest in this region. While development projects like the Arctic offshore drilling program present the opportunity for much-needed regional economic growth and employment they also represent a significant risk to the tradition...