The Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces

Environment, Territory, Geo-Security

Mark Nuttall (University of Alberta, Canada)

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English

Routledge
07 August 2023

Development studies; Economics; Mining industry; The environment; Global warming; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces.

It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of securitisation, and explores how the country is being imagined as an emerging frontier with vast mineral reserves. The book delves into the history and contemporary practice of geological exploration and considers the politics and corporate activities that frame discussion about extractive industries and resource zones. It touches upon resource policies, the nature of social and environmental assessments, and permitting processes, while the environmental and social effects of extractive industries are considered, alongside an assessment of the status of current and planned resource projects. In its exploration of the nature and place of territory and the subterranean in political and economic narratives, the book shows how the making of Greenland has and continues to be bound up with the shaping of resource spaces and with ambitions to extract resources from them. Yet the book shows that plans for extractive industries remain controversial. It concludes by considering the prospects for future development and debates on conservation and Indigenous rights, with reflections on how and where Greenland is positioned in the geopolitics of environmental governance and geo-security in the Arctic.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental anthropology, geography, resource management, extractive industries, environmental governance, international relations, geopolitics, Arctic studies, and sustainable development.

By: Mark Nuttall (University of Alberta Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032007489
ISBN 10: 1032007486
Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 07 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and the Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk. His books include Climate, Society and Subsurface Politics in Greenland: Under the Great Ice (Routledge, 2017), The Scramble for the Poles: the Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic (with Klaus Dodds, 2016), and The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Klaus Dodds, 2019). He is editor of the Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Anthropology and Climate Change (Routledge, 2016) and the Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions (Routledge, 2018). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.