The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know PDF

Klaus Dodds ist Professor für Geopolitik an der Royal Holloway University of London und Fellow der Academy of Social Sciences. Er promovierte 1994 an der University of Bristol und trat danach eine Stelle an der University of Edinburgh an und wechselte anschließend zu Royal Holloway. Er hatte ein Visiting Erskine Fellowship am Gateway Antarctica der University of Canterbury (2002) und war Visiting Fellow am St Cross College der University of Oxford (2010-11) und am St Johns College der University of Oxford (2017-18). 2005 erhielt er den Philip-Leverhulme-Preis für Geographie und 2016 ein Major Research Fellowship des Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) für ein Projekt zur „Globalen Arktis“. Er hat viele Bücher und Artikel veröffentlicht, die sich mit der Geopolitik und Governance der Polarregionen sowie der Kulturpolitik des Eises befassen. Dazu gehören: The Scramble for the Poles (2016), Ice: Nature and Culture und The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). Er hat als Fachberater für zwei parlamentarische Ausschüsse gedient; the House of Lords Select Committee on the Arctic (2014-5) und die Arktis-Untersuchung des House of Commons Environment Audit Committee (2018). Im Jahr 2019. Er wurde zum britischen Vertreter der IASC-Arbeitsgruppe für Soziales und Mensch ernannt. Er hat die Antarktis bei vier verschiedenen Gelegenheiten besucht und ist ausgiebig in der Arktisregion gereist.

The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know pdf von Klaus Dodds

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting lines are only made murkier by the threat of global climate change. In the Arctic Ocean, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life and raise sea levels globally. InThe Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance, among other crucial topics.