Call number:
IASS 21.94324
Description / Table of Contents:
This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new and meaningful ways. Research informs decisions affecting the futures of arctic communities. Due to its ability to include local concerns and practices, collaborative research could play a greater role in this process. By way of example of how to bring new voices to the fore in research, this edited collection presents experiences of researchers active in collaborative arctic research. It draws multidisciplinary perspectives from a broad range of academics in the fields such as law and medicine over tourism and business studies, planning and development, cultural studies, ethnology and anthropology. It also shares personal experiences of working in Greenland and with Greenlanders, whether communities, businesses and entrepreneurs, public officials and planners, patients or students. Offering useful insights into the current problems of Greenland representative of the arctic region, this book will be beneficial for researchers and scientists involved in arctic research
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
xiii, 159 pages
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780367467555
,
9781003030843
Series Statement:
Routledge research in polar regions
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
DOI:
10.4324/9781003030843
Language:
English
Branch Library:
RIFS Library
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