Product Description: This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000...read more

Product Description: Throughout the twentieth century, glaciologists and geophysicists from Denmark, Norway and Sweden made important scientific contributions across the Arctic and Antarctic. This research was of acute security and policy interest during the Cold War, as knowledge of the polar regions assumed military importance...read more

A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.

Product Description: Present trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving persons, equipment or funding, will grow considerably. The main purpose of this volume is to try to understand the reasons for this denationalization of science, its historical contexts and its social forms...read more

Product Description: A rich variety of stories about encounters: between Danish kings and Greenlanders, Swedish naturalists and the Saami, ethnographers and Inuit. This absorbing collection makes a welcome contribution not only to the understanding of the representation and practice of science in the Nordic regions, but also to the history of science, culture and politics more generally...read more

Product Description: The pursuit of sustainable development must not only promote environmental integrity and biodiversity, but also human equity. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The pursuit of sustainable development must not only promote environmental integrity and biodiversity, but also human equity.