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Living and Working With Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic - Everyday Perspectives

English · Hardback

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This book describes everyday practices of life in changing Arctic winter conditions. The authors explore the contemporary and situated outdoor practices in different work settings in Finnish Lapland and investigate how, for example, tourism, reindeer herding, cattle breeding and urban snow management adapt to the physically limiting or enabling features of cold temperatures, snow and ice. The book also highlights individual and societal adjustments to such harsh conditions and their seasonal changes in mobility, including winter cycling, use of snow mobiles and walking with studded shoes. The impact of a warming climate is a great concern for those utilising the enabling qualities of winter weather. The need, then, for continuous adaptation in everyday practices of work and mobility will increase in the future.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Everyday practices of adaptation in the modern Arctic. Monica Tennberg and Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo.- Part I. Situated weather practices in work contexts.- Chapter 2. Waiting for snow: Discrepancy between the demand for snow and actual snow conditions. Seija Tuulentie.- Chapter 3. Living with Baltic Sea ice. Élise Lépy.- Chapter 4. Reindeer, cows and people: Sustainable human-animal adaptations in Finnish Lapland. Nuccio Mazzullo and Päivi Soppela.- Chapter 5. Managing snow in an Arctic city: Urban political ecology approach. Birgitta Vinkka and Jarno Valkonen.- Chapter 6. The (snow) garden as a unique space for human-nature relations. Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo.- Part II. Situated weather practices in mobility contexts.- Chapter 7. When the risk realises on a wintry road. The failure of the socio-technical system of land-based transport in northern conditions. Leena Suopajärvi.- Chapter 8. From everyday work to sensations of freedom: Snowmobile users' relationships to snow, ice and weather. Tapio Nykänen.- Chapter 9. Winter cycling developments in two cities of northern Finland. Minna T. Turunen.- Chapter 10. Watch your step: Everyday urban mobility in the Arctic. Monica Tennberg.- Chapter 11. Winter wonderland: Girls' interactive relationship with the Arctic environment. Varpu Wiens.- Chapter 12. Welcome aboard! Motorboating encounters in Arctic inland waters. Vesa Markuksela.- Part III. Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Concluding remarks: Modern Arctic winter life - everyday negotiations with weather. Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg.

About the author










Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo, conducts research at the University of Lapland on people¿s relationship with the Arctic environment. She has published widely on conflicting land uses and public involvement in environmental decision-making processes, especially in the context of nuclear and hydropower production.
Monica Tennberg, research professor at the University of Lapland, is an expert in Arctic environmental social studies. Her recent work includes Unravelling the North: Critical studies of the Arctic, a book co-edited with Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and Indigenous peoples, natural resources and governance: Agencies and interactions, a volume co-edited with Else Grete Broderstad and Hans-Kristian Hernes (Routledge, 2022).


Product details

Assisted by Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo (Editor), Tennberg (Editor), Monica Tennberg (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 11.11.2023
 
EAN 9783031364440
ISBN 978-3-0-3136444-0
No. of pages 267
Dimensions 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XV, 267 p. 28 illus., 25 illus. in color.
Series Arctic Encounters
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography

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