Governing Arctic Change Global Perspectives
This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Leading and emerging scholars in Arctic research investigate the international causes and consequences of contemporary Arctic developments, and assess how bo
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Global Perspectives
Edited by
Kathrin Keil, Sebastian Knecht
Governing Arctic Change
Kathrin Keil • Sebastian Knecht Editors
Governing Arctic Change Global Perspectives
Editors Kathrin Keil Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, Germany
Sebastian Knecht Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS) Berlin, Germany
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Acknowledgements
As the Arctic Council marked its 20th anniversary in September 2016, the Arctic continues to make it to newspaper headlines and intensive academic scrutiny as a major cause of global concern. We just witnessed an abnormally warm winter. In fact, January and February 2016 were the warmest ever recorded since 1880, globally but particularly in the northern hemisphere. In Germany these winter months felt rather like changing quickly from a dry autumn to a cold and damp spring, but never truly like what we knew as ‘winter’ from our childhoods about two decades ago. With Christmas 2015 at 15 °C and overall only a few days of snow, the skiing season to many might have been reminiscent more of a summer toboggan run. Through our work and interest as Arctic researchers, we have come more and more to understand that such changes in mid-latitudes are in large part due to Arctic change, and in turn that Arctic changes are precipitated by
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