scholarly journals Indigenous People as Self-Narratives of Canada For Building Ontological Security in the Arctic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1104
Author(s):  
Adnan DAL
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ontological Security

The World Heritage Convention in the Arctic and Indigenous People: Time to Reform?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
High Level

This article analyses the role of the World Heritage Convention in the Arctic, particularly the role of Indigenous people in environmental protection and governance of natural, mixed and transboundary properties. It outlines the Convention in an Arctic context, profiles Arctic properties on the World Heritage List and Tentative List, and considers Arctic properties that may appear on the List of World Heritage in Danger. It gives detailed consideration to examples of Arctic natural, mixed, and potentially transboundary, properties of greatest significance to Indigenous people with reference to their environmental protection and management. In doing so, it reviews and analyses recent high-level critiques of the application of the Convention in the Arctic. Conclusions follow, the most significant of which is that the Convention and its Operational Guidelines must be reformed to be consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

Balancing De Jure and De Facto Arctic Environmental Law Applied to the Oil and Gas Industry: Linking Indigenous Rights, Social Impact Assessment and Business in Greenland

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cassotta ◽  
Mauro Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
The Social

What will take place in the Arctic in the next decade will have consequences for us all, as the changing of the “Albedo effect” is altering the global climate, disrupting many equilibria both in the ecosystem and in the social sphere. Changes in the Arctic will not stay in the Arctic, but will affect the rest of the planet. The need to exploit resources, the emergence of new actors in the Arctic and the discovery of abundant oil, gas, mineral and renewable energy resources mean that we have to literally rethink and reconstruct the “Arctic” as a concept. Huge promises are made, but big questions are also raised about how we are to rethink and regulate our “blue planet.” A new regulatory framework is thus inevitable. This article deals with the social aspects of the climate change’s effects and the understanding of human adaptation to climate change by explaining how the problem of exploration and exploitation of oil and gas and their use by indigenous people are strictly interconnected with Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and environmental protection. The article focuses on the social dimension of climate change coupled with business development of oil and gas firms in the Arctic with Greenland as a case study to illustrate opportunities and tensions affecting the indigenous Greenlandic people. Some conclusions are drawn with the formulation of recommendations on the urgent need for direct participation of Arctic indigenous people in the decision-making policy creation on environmental protection measures and culture and advice on how to implement such recommendations. A solution to implement such recommendation would be to develop an interdisciplinary research programme to be implemented through an interdisciplinary research centre susceptible to be turned into an international organization after a certain period of working activity at the academic level.

Mental health, substance use and suicidal behaviour among young indigenous people in the Arctic: A systematic review

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 1194-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venla Lehti ◽  
Solja Niemelä ◽  
Christina Hoven ◽  
Donald Mandell ◽  
Andre Sourander
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
The Arctic

scholarly journals Climate Change and Migration for Scandinavian Saami: A Review of Possible Impacts

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Kelman ◽  
Marius Næss
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Reindeer Herding ◽  
Governance Analysis ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Migration, especially of indigenous peoples, related to or influenced by climate change continues to gain increasing research and policy attention. Limited material remains for this topic for Scandinavia’s indigenous people, the Saami. This paper contributes to filling this gap by providing a review for the Scandinavian Saami of the possible impacts of climate change on migration. Environmental influences, social influences, and a synthesis through livelihoods impacts, including for reindeer herding, is provided, followed by a discussion of Saami responses to climate change and migration mainly through a governance analysis. Overall, climate change’s impacts on the Saami do not necessarily entail abandoning their traditions, livelihoods, or homes. Instead, the most significant impact is likely to be migrants moving into the Arctic to pursue resource opportunities. Working collaboratively with the Saami, policies and practices are needed to ensure that indigenous interests are respected and that indigenous needs are met.

scholarly journals Instability and stability of population dynamics and local settlements in post-Soviet Chukotka: regional characteristics seen from intraregional and local differences

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
K. Kumo ◽  
T. V. Litvinenko
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Large Share ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Geographical Characteristics ◽  
Stable Development ◽  
Local Levels

The aims of the study are twofold. First, it aims at identifying geographical characteristics and differences in the stability/instability of population dynamics. Second, the paper examines the sustainability of settlements in the ethnic region in the Arctic Circle and the factors that determine them. Traditional geographical approaches and the field research enabled us to clarify general instability of the population dynamics and the settlements of Chukotka in the 1990s and its stabilization seen after 2002, although there were significant differences at the intra-regional and local levels. Relatively greater stability (a smaller decrease in the population due to a smaller migration outflow and the absence of abandoned settlements) was seen in the population and settlements in regions with high percentage share of indigenous people. The most unstable areas were those with a large share of the newcomers and those with the mining industry, especially in the 1990s. The extremely and most vulnerable was single-company towns which closely connected with mining enterprises, most of which were eliminated before 2000. Differences in stability/instability of population dynamics and local settlements, or differences in resilience/vulnerability of the system at different spatial levels (from regions to individual settlements) will become more evident in the years under crisis but will be smoothed out during the period of relatively stable development.

scholarly journals Homo technicus mobilis in Yamal

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
E.S. Yaptik
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Yamal Peninsula ◽  
High Price ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Reindeer Herding ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Almost All

The author attempts to investigate how new infrastructure and new technical means affect the social institu-tions of the indigenous inhabitants of the Yamal Peninsula, who were mainly engaged in traditional activities: no-madic reindeer herding and fishing. The work is based on the author's field materials of 2018–2020 for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District (Western Siberia) and publications of other researchers. The paper shows how the autochthonous peoples build new mobile space and master snowmobiles. Domination over the created space takes place with the aid of traditional skills and behaviors. At the same time, deer, which was the main transport animal and the main measure of wealth of Arctic reindeer herders, has not receded into the background, but transformed into a means of technical modernization of the economy. As a result, it has been shown that, when choosing technical innovations, the indigenous people of Yamal are guided by their ease of operation, high cross-country capability and environmental friendliness, preferring the domestically produced Buran in daily routine. Snowmobiles can be found in almost all reindeer herding families, and only their high price indicates the standing of the owners and allows the latter to demonstrate their status in the society. ‘Buranists’ are involved in the market relations, occupying their niches in the system of commodity-exchange relations in the society. They act as an information and communication link between reindeer herders' camps and settlements. Snowmobiles are vivid examples of adaptation of indigenous people to new conditions and demonstrate possibility of coexistence of traditional reindeer farming culture with modern technologies. The Arctic nomad turned from a mobile man into homo technicus mobilis. This transformation appeared to be only on the outside, as evidenced by frequent acci-dents during the operation of snowmobiles. The proper use of such technologies in many respects offers competi-tive advantages to local entrepreneurs. New vehicles boost the entrepreneurial activity of the natives, involve them in the non-traditional sectors of employment: repair and resale of snowmobiles, transportation; and delivery of fuels, where natives can employ traditional knowledge of orientation, satisfy their passion for moving, and to avail themselves of the opportunity to choose a lifestyle and transport, without parting with their mobile lifestyle.

Russia's Circumpolar Territories Inhabited by Indigenous Peoples

2019 ◽  
pp. 470-494
Author(s):  
Stanislav Lipski ◽  
Olga Storozhenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Management ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Arctic Zone ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

The Arctic zone of Russia includes nine regions (five of them partially). In total, it covers an inland area of 4.9 million square kilometers and 0.2 million square kilometers of islands. Traditionally, land management has been well developed in Russia as a part of public policy with its established goals, including carrying out different land reforms. However, during previous years, the level of land management in the country as a whole and in the Arctic zone, in particular, has decreased significantly due to a number of economic, organizational, and legal factors. Various federal and regional legislative acts regulate a range of issues related to the activities of indigenous peoples and land management. However, a character of such regulation is neither consistent nor sufficient. Notwithstanding the fact that all territories of Russian Arctic inhabited by indigenous people are recognized as the specially protected natural areas, those territories are still engaged in business activities.

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