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Proceedings of symposium held March 21-23, 1979, Montebello, Quebec, examining various aspects of marine transportation in the high arctic.
Transcripts of proceedings from a conference involving individuals from Greenland, Canada and Alaska debating animal use and animal protection in the circumpolar north, land claims, community economic development, international Arctic issues, native development corporations and future strategies.
Author asserts that conservation is the fundamental issue of politics in northern areas. He describes the political questions that arise from conflicts between conservation and development in the proposed Nunavut territory of northern Canada, in Alaska and in northern Norway.
Discussion paper which focusses on the development of a method for planning and managing environmentally significant areas in the NWT, such as national parks, national landmarks and wildlife areas.
In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by outsiders. The Arctic Promise looks at how much the Inuit vision of self-governance relates to the existing public governance systems of Greenland and Nunavut, and how much autonomy there can be for territories that remain subordinate units of larger states. By means of a bottom-up approach involving cultural immersion, contextual, jurisprudential, and historical legal comparisons of Greenland and ...
For the purpose of publication of these Proceedings, the original conference programme has been rearranged to provide a more logical sequence of presentation. The beginning sections give the inaugural speech and the six keynote addresses which were delivered at the opening plenary session. Following these are the working papers, published more or less in the same sequence in which they were presented in the original programme. The order of presentation does not necessarily emphasise the importance of any one aspect of the Arctic Systems over others. The final reports of the six working groups and their conclusions and recommendations are edited in such a manner as to present them in a standa...