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Record Nr.

UNINA9910701470303321

Titolo

Wilderness in the circumpolar north : searching for compatibility in ecological, traditional, and ecotourism values / / compilers, Alan E. Watson, Lilian Alessa, Janet Sproull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ogden, Utah] : , : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, , [2002]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Proceedings report RMRS ; ; P-26

Disciplina

333.78/2/09113

Soggetti

Wilderness areas - Arctic regions - Management

Sustainable development - Arctic regions

Ecology

Economic history

Sustainable development

Wilderness areas - Management

Conference papers and proceedings.

Arctic regions Economic conditions Congresses

Arctic regions Environmental conditions Congresses

Arctic Regions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Perspectives on wilderness in the Arctic / David R. Klein -- Origin of political conflict in Arctic wilderness areas / James N. Gladden -- Protected areas of the central Siberian Arctic : history, status, and prospects / Andrei P. Laletin, Dmitry V. Vladyshevskii, Alexei D. Vladyshevskii -- Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy : how community values are shaping the protection of wild spaces and heritage places / Angela Stadel, Raymond Taniton, Heidi Heder -- Collaboration across cultural boundaries to protect wild places : the British Columbia experience / Robert E. Pfister -- Planning in the human ecotone : managing wild places on the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge / Stewart Allen -- Nature and tourism in Greenland / Berit C. Kaae -- Iceland's central highlands : nature conservation, ecotourism,



and energy resource utilization / Björn Gunnarsson, Maria-Victoria Gunnarsson -- Can traditional ecological knowledge and wilderness benefit one another? / Henry P. Huntington -- Increasing value of wilderness : protecting cultural heritage / Herbert O. Anungazuk -- Biodiversity in Finnish wilderness areas : historical and cultural constraints to preserve species and habitats / Anna-Liisa Sippola -- Anthropogenic impacts on habitat structure and species richness in the west Siberian Arctic / Olga Khitun, Olga Rebristaya -- Evaluating nature and wilderness in Iceland / Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir -- Alaska exceptionality hypothesis : is Alaska wilderness really different? / Gregory Brown -- Wilderness and well-being : complexity, time, and psychological growth / Joar Vittersø -- Social construction of Arctic wilderness : place meanings, value pluralism, and globalization / Daniel R. Williams -- Growing pressures on circumpolar north Wilderness : a case for coordinated research and education / Lilian Alessa, Alan Watson.