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Polar Shift addresses how to sustain the Arctic's richness, beauty, and local and global value. It describes programs specifically created to protect this region: the great inventory of law, policy, and civil society activity targeting sustainability of the region. It presents the Arctic and its present environmental health, very broadly understood, and competing ideas of how it can be maintained or improved with specific recommendations. This is a book about the Arctic's past and how it was envisioned, about its environment, its people, and their cultures. Polar Shift describes how the changing of the Arctic matters and to whom. It discusses what is being done to address threats to the Arctic's environment, and describes an inventory of tools available to sustain the Arctic and its people.
“This book guides readers through the great diversity of the ‘region of the century.’ Moving from the realm of the ‘Arctic Five’ to the cultural heritage of indigenous people, from Arctic governance to the latest scientific findings, the author offers a variety of tools to understand what future changes in the North will depend solely on natural forces… and what will depend on us.” —Ilaria Tani, Doctor of Research in International law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza (School of Law), Milano, Italy
Joseph F. C. DiMento is professor of law and of planning and friend of the Arctic. He writes, teaches, and lectures on international environmental law and society.
News from the Arctic September 2035; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Region of the Century; 2. The Place: In History and Now; 3. The Environment and How It Is Changing; 4. Rules and Other Influencers; 5. The Arctic Sustained; Index.