Mining or traditional use : conflicts in the Northern Norwegian copper frontier

• Main Author: Rør, Anders Vieth
• Other Authors: Gómez-Baggethun, Erik Nicolás, Benjaminsen, Tor Arve
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2018
• Subjects: Political Ecology; Ecological Economics; Environmental Justice; Copper mining; Conflicts; Norway; Verdier; Copper Mine; Finnmark Fylke; Repparfjord; Nussir; Kvalsund; Repparfjorden; Finnmark; Nord-Norge; Northern Norway; reindrift; samisk
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2505756

There is a growing global material and energy extraction and consumption. Especially mineral extraction of metals such as copper has increased by 25 times during the last century thus pushing the extraction frontiers into new territory. Copper extraction increasingly expands into Northern Norway wit...