The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know

by Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, Russia, the United States, and Denmark, such discussions are based in competition for land and resources; for indigenous communities, those discussions are also rooted in issues of rights. These shifting lines are only made murkier by the threat of global climate change. In the Arctic Ocean, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life and raise sea levels globally.

In The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance, among other crucial topics.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Audiobook, Science

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2019

About the author

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994.

In 2005 Klaus Doods was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'"

Reviews

[Harry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cool overview of the Arctic. Talks about Arctic geopolitics, climate change, ecosystems, and focuses a lot on indigenous struggles. I enjoyed it

[Pieter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential for everyone who wants to understand the relations of man and nature in the Far North. Historic as well as for the coming decades. Very nuanced and detailled with a lot of references to legal texts as well as literature and art. Highly recommended!

[Patricia Massarotto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Howdy yall!

What a good book!

You know how a relation always asks you to wear a hat & cream on some sunscreen when going to the beach while on, say a nice holiday - or how to trim a very overgrown tree in your backyard or harvest a big olive tree, pondered how a polar bear eats food in the Arctic.

if your curious about what exactly is Climate Change & all the affects on people was in fact both past & present, as in which this broad global subject really does have to offer in reading, then of course this is the informative book for you. It our planet, right?
Then read "The Arctic - what everybody Needs to Know" by: K. Dodds & M. Knuttall (C) 2019 by: OUP.

Value it, care for it, think about it, treat earth with respect & we will all skillfully benefit from it properly!

Enjoy! [{* Briefer summarry}]


[{*Long version }]
I'm not usually a big reader of such a qualified level published book like Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall's has done, [* From Oxford University Press, jbtw.] but at the time I rented the paper version of thier insightful book from our local library - it looked necessary & important then. Since finishing it yesterday - not only am I glad I did put time and pre-known clarity into it! We all understand it - but I agree with the previous reviewers here on Goodreads Australia - why be so "heavy" on the politics - boring!!! Really... 🥱

Their use of straight-forward questions to introduce the following paragraphs was a good idea - because it gave the reader a "break" from all the "heavy IQ mental workout" required when reading such a kind: "cold relating outside" detailed book. How earth's core heats up & cools changes seasonally is another apsect they particularily content is full of context.

Also - they've used a good mix of words - even academic ones, like: "delinate, fraught, arbitrary, imperiled, provokes debate, jeopardised, linger, distortion, scramble, demarcations & contrary and elusive," for a few mentions, however familiar it was for me, to see those lightly negative IQ words again, I'd prefered better language uses like: "myriad, social anthropological, rich history, melting polar, critical information, (obviously} focus & effort, contest, enables, leading, conversation, reveals, heritage, ancestral rights, sea levels, concise, polar scholars, boundary shifting & conservations and environement involvement"; I could go on, but I won't - see for yourself. Here is a good one: "micro organisms!" Knew what it meant first off. 😀📚👩🏽‍🎓🏝️

So, from page 215 onwards - finally did just patiently understand what these two OUP (C) 2019 authors; where stating effectively.

You could say it almost melted my heart & unveiled some certain potent combinations on where we are currently up to today on the monitoring of earth's warming trends, etc., Like: know & obtain the resource development that is found in the extraction process needed to say: make computers or from the houses we live in! Even, got down to recycling - a human consumption matter we all know very well. A good way indeed.

All difficulties aside, K Dodds & M Nuttall OUP (oxford university press) book, aside, no imense interest in ecology, evolution, and nature - I think happily to what is currently sort of on every one else's mind - here is a relevant good quote sourced via Quora.com/au, supports their remarks truly suitably swell:

"In order to take the next step up, you must 'raise' somebody to the stair behind you."

Don't you think: if a information cool book has a cover entitling with: "The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know" then probably they researched it really rather rate it (well) highly.

Enjoy - a final sparked though it didn't have me tangled in nutt grass, is here:

"Value it, care for it, think about it, treat earth with respect & we will all skillfully benefit from it properly in the future!"

See for yourselves....

[Lovis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read if one wants to understand the Arctic.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read - covers a lot of material, though some of it is repetitive.

[Linda Is on her way]

Wayyy too heavy on politics for me. The world is going to shit which I know already and this just enraged me. But it's a good book I guess I just don't feel able to rate this

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice introduction to the Arctic, which I think gets less attention than it southern brethren. However, I think the book could have been expanded to talk about the different historical claims in the region.

[Wendy Jensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

An informative and historical book on the Arctic.

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