Big Thaw

At the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Ezra B. W. Zubrow is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology. At the University of Buffalo's School of Law, Errol Meidinger is Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor of Law. At the University of Buffalo's School of Law, Kim Diana Connolly is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Education.

"This book offers a valuable compendium on a broad spectrum of issues associated with climate change, its implications, and human adaptation in the Arctic." — Andrey N. Petrov, coauthor of Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present, and Future

• List of IllustrationsForewordOwen Temby and Peter Stoett1. In the Vortex of the Thaw: General IntroductionEzra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and Kim Diana ConnollyPart I. 2. Red Sky in Morning, Sailors Take Warning: Forewarnings from a Thawing ArcticEzra B. W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and Kim Diana Connolly3. Will Action on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Give the Arctic Time to Adapt?Mark W. Roberts4. Sustaining Arctic Breeding Waterbirds: Policy Implications for Temperate Countries Resulting from Arctic Climate ChangeDavid A. Stroud5. Arctic Biodiversity: Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna with Excerpts Taken from the Arctic Biodiversity AssessmentCourtney Price et al.6. Is the Climatic Optimum on Its Way Back? Consequences, Measures, and Attitudes Associated with Climate Change in FinlandMilton Núñez7. Teleconnecting the Great ThawEzra B. W. ZubrowPart II. 8. One Law to Rule Them All: Arctic Climate Change Policy and Legal RealitiesKim Diana Connolly, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Errol Meidinger9. Regulating in the Face of a Changing World: Legal Regulation of Climate ChangeMichael B. Gerrard10. Avoiding Genocide: Factors Applicable to Adaptation Planning for Arctic Indigenous PeoplesElizabeth Ann Kronk Warner11. Geopower and Sea Ice: Encounters with the Geopolitical StageDuncan Depledge12. Arctic Wetlands and Limited International Protections: Can the Ramsar Convention Help Meaningfully Address Climate Change?Kim Diana Connolly13. Climate Governance and Arctic Governance: You Can’t Have One Without the Other? Or, What Dual Governance Failures Look LikeCinnamon CarlarnePart III. 14. Polar Communities and Cultures in Addressing Climate ChangeErrol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Kim Diana Connolly15. Livelihood and Resilience in a Marginal Northern Environment: 1,000 Years on the Småland PlateauT. L. Thurston16. The Holocene CatastropheAndré Costopoulos17. Effects of Natural and Social Stressors on Human Biology: Northern Sweden in the Little Ice AgeTheodore Steegmann18. Surviving Climate Change: Yup’ik Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, a Film ProjectSarah Elder19. Resilience, Reindeer, Oil, and Climate Change: Challenges Facing the Nenets Indigenous People in the Russian ArcticMaria S. Tysiachniouk, Laura A. Henry, and Svetlana A. Tulaeva20. Representations of Environmental Problems and Climate Change: The Case of the Young Inhabitants of the City of Buenos AiresEnrique del Acebo Ibáñez21. Future?Torill Christine Lindstrøm22. Conclusion: Elegy for the Arctic?Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow, and Kim Diana ConnollyAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex