Ezra B. W. Zubrow & Errol Meidinger 
The Big Thaw [EPUB ebook] 
Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North

Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate change in the Circumpolar Arctic is affecting and will continue to affect environments, cultures, societies, and economies throughout the world. The contributors discuss a variety of topics, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, community economics, regional development and planning, and political science, as well as biogeophysical sciences such as ecology, human-environmental interactions, and climatology.



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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7130.

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List of Illustrations



Foreword


Owen Temby and
Peter Stoett



1. In the Vortex of the Thaw: General Introduction


Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and
Kim Diana Connolly




Part I.



2. Red Sky in Morning, Sailors Take Warning: Forewarnings from a Thawing Arctic


Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and
Kim Diana Connolly



3. Will Action on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Give the Arctic Time to Adapt?


Mark W. Roberts



4. Sustaining Arctic Breeding Waterbirds: Policy Implications for Temperate Countries Resulting from Arctic Climate Change


David A. Stroud



5. Arctic Biodiversity: Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna with Excerpts Taken from the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment


Courtney Price et al.



6. Is the Climatic Optimum on Its Way Back? Consequences, Measures, and Attitudes Associated with Climate Change in Finland


Milton Núñez



7. Teleconnecting the Great Thaw


Ezra B. W. Zubrow




Part II.



8. One Law to Rule Them All: Arctic Climate Change Policy and Legal Realities


Kim Diana Connolly, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and
Errol Meidinger



9. Regulating in the Face of a Changing World: Legal Regulation of Climate Change


Michael B. Gerrard



10. Avoiding Genocide: Factors Applicable to Adaptation Planning for Arctic Indigenous Peoples


Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner



11. Geopower and Sea Ice: Encounters with the Geopolitical Stage


Duncan Depledge



12. Arctic Wetlands and Limited International Protections: Can the Ramsar Convention Help Meaningfully Address Climate Change?


Kim Diana Connolly



13. Climate Governance and Arctic Governance: You Can’t Have One Without the Other? Or, What Dual Governance Failures Look Like


Cinnamon Carlarne




Part III.



14. Polar Communities and Cultures in Addressing Climate Change


Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and
Kim Diana Connolly



15. Livelihood and Resilience in a Marginal Northern Environment: 1, 000 Years on the Småland Plateau


T. L. Thurston



16. The Holocene Catastrophe


André Costopoulos



17. Effects of Natural and Social Stressors on Human Biology: Northern Sweden in the Little Ice Age


Theodore Steegmann



18. Surviving Climate Change: Yup’ik Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, a Film Project


Sarah Elder



19. Resilience, Reindeer, Oil, and Climate Change: Challenges Facing the Nenets Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic


Maria S. Tysiachniouk, Laura A. Henry, and
Svetlana A. Tulaeva



20. Representations of Environmental Problems and Climate Change: The Case of the Young Inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires


Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez



21. Future?


Torill Christine Lindstrøm



22. Conclusion: Elegy for the Arctic?


Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and
Kim Diana Connolly



Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Over de auteur

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York,
Ezra B. W. Zubrow is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology. At the University of Buffalo’s School of Law,
Errol Meidinger is Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor of Law. At the University of Buffalo’s School of Law,
Kim Diana Connolly is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Education.