Protecting the Arctic: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival - Studies in Environmental Anthropology v.3. (Hardback)

Explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Artic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy-making. The text illustrates how indigenous peoples make claims that their own forms of resource management not only have relevance in an Artic regional context, but provide models for the inclusion of indigenous values and environmental knowledge in the design, negotiation and implemetnation of global environmental policy.