Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, nonetheless still has untapped potential. Presenting numerous examples and substantial data from a pan-Arctic survey and several workshops around the Arctic, Ths book offers a state of the field and a guide for mapping out the next step...

Mænd er gode til det. Nu skal kvinderne også kunne det! Mange kvinder har svært ved at opbygge og udvikle netværk? Er det generthed, skræk for afvisning eller simpel mangel på øvelse? Katja Iversen, kendt som hoveddamen i Women Deliver organisationen, der kæmper for pigers og kvinders rettigheder worldwide, mener det sidste. Selv er hun beviset på, at øvelse gør mester, for Katja er netværksdronning par excellence: Hun lever af det. I Netværk til kloge kvinder deler hun rundhåndet og sjovt...

By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept. It portrays the multiple, situated perspectives that characterize understandings and imaginings of Svalbard, and brings together contributions from academic fields that rarely interact with each other.Svalbard Imaginaries contributes to a number of research contexts, ranging from a broadly conceived, multi-di...