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ARCTIC JUSTICE : Environment, Society and Governance
Policy makers and scholars often see the Arctic as an attractive laboratory for
international cooperation, especially concerning sustainable development
and environmental protection, yet it is hardly considered a site for fostering
or testing the principles or perspectives of justice. Across scales of geography
and hierarchies of power, the conditions of the Arctic has provided repeated
opportunities to generate new ideas for cooperation and equitable systemic
structures that seek to redress injustice in the future development of the
region, and, beyond development, a flourishing existence. Yet the chapters
in this volume are testaments to the opportunities missed in establishing the
just conditions found within theories of justice. We are aware that, despite the
potentially good intentions held by stakeholders with interests in the region,
there is an inherent disjunction between the governance of the Arctic and
its economic development. Caught between this disjunction are the people
and the environment that it affects – an environment that is increasingly
connected to, and important for, the entire global system
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