"British mining, exploration, and geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904-53"
by Frigga Kruse
Price: $47.00
ISBN: 9789491431333
Pub Date: 2014-01-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Barkhuis
480 Pages
The focus of this book is the role of Great Britain in the industrial development of Spitsbergen. The primary aim of this study is to explain the British operations on Spitsbergen from a historical international comparative perspective.
With the publication of this volume of Circumpolar Studies, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen and the contributors would like to honour Ko de Korte.
Tourist behaviour at cultural heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard
by Ricardo Mariano Roura
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9789077922873
Pub Date: 2011-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Barkhuis
306 Pages
This thesis aims to describe and interpret the effects of tourism on historic sites in Antarctica and Svalbard (also known as Spitsbergen), and to assess the implications for management.
This book first and foremost looks into experiences of Greenlanders in Denmark, and in addition offers a Canadian comparative perspective. It presents my representation of Greenlanders in Denmark/Inuit...
History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areas
Edited by Louwrens Hacquebord
Price: $34.00
ISBN: 9789491431081
Pub Date: 2012-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Barkhuis
172 Pages
This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was organized to finalize the bilateral LASHIPA Russia-Netherlands project and to discuss possible future cooperation between the participants of the sub-project of the Eurocore Boreas project and the participants o
In 1999, Nunavut Territory was created in the Canadian Arctic. The area is about 50 times as large as the Netherlands, and is inhabited by a population of 30,000. 85% of the population is Inuit, the indigenous people in this area.
Netherlands Ecological Research on Edgeøya, Spitsbergen
Edited by Nienke Boschman and Louwrens Hacquebord
Price: $12.75
ISBN: 9789491431548
Pub Date: 2004-12-31
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Barkhuis
163 Pages
With the publication of this special issue of Circumpolar Journal, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen would like to honour Piet Oosterveld as the driving force behind biological research...
The central questions of this research are the following: What was the Antarctic policy of the Netherlands from the late 1950s until 1990? What were its motives, goals, means and effects? What were the roles of the government, the scientific community, non-governmental organisations and possible other actors in this policy? How can these be ...
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