The predicament of sustainability: Solutions in Greenland
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The predicament of sustainability : Solutions in Greenland. / Sejersen, Frank.
The Inuit World. ed. / Pamala Stern. Routledge, 2021. p. 414-431 (Routledge Worlds).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The predicament of sustainability
T2 - Solutions in Greenland
AU - Sejersen, Frank
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The question of how to use renewable resources sustainably has been a pivotal focus in Greenland since the colonial period, when Inuit were confronted with Western perceptions of animals and the environment. The chapter addresses the challenge sustainable development policies bring in the process of making the social world. Using three case studies, the chapter investigates how the issue of sustainability has been productively linked to nation-building. The case studies vary in scale in order to understand Inuit’s involvement in different resource management regimes. Nation-building plays a key role in the implementation of sustainable development policies, exposing the different – and sometimes clashing – understandings of the concept of sustainability for state and the local resource users.
AB - The question of how to use renewable resources sustainably has been a pivotal focus in Greenland since the colonial period, when Inuit were confronted with Western perceptions of animals and the environment. The chapter addresses the challenge sustainable development policies bring in the process of making the social world. Using three case studies, the chapter investigates how the issue of sustainability has been productively linked to nation-building. The case studies vary in scale in order to understand Inuit’s involvement in different resource management regimes. Nation-building plays a key role in the implementation of sustainable development policies, exposing the different – and sometimes clashing – understandings of the concept of sustainability for state and the local resource users.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Political ecology
KW - sustainability
KW - Greenland
KW - Inuit
KW - environmental management
KW - neoliberalism
KW - ontology
KW - epistemology
KW - fishing
KW - whaling
KW - bird hunting
U2 - 10.4324/9780429275470-29
DO - 10.4324/9780429275470-29
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367225391
T3 - Routledge Worlds
SP - 414
EP - 431
BT - The Inuit World
A2 - Stern, Pamala
PB - Routledge
ER -
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