Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: searching for compatibility in ecological, traditional, and ecotourism values; 2001 May 15-16; Anchorage, AK

Abstract

There are growing pressures on undeveloped (wild) places in the Circumpolar North. Among them are pressures for economic development, oil and gas exploration and extraction, development of geothermal energy resources, development of heavy industry close to energy sources, and lack of appreciation for "other" orientations toward wilderness resources by interested parties from broad geographical origins. An international seminar in Anchorage, Alaska, in May of 2001, was the first step in providing basic input to an analysis of the primary set of values associated with Circumpolar North wilderness and the constraints and contributors (factors of influence) that either limit or facilitate receipt of those values to various segments of society.

Titles contained within Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: searching for compatibility in ecological, traditional, and ecotourism values; 2001 May 15-16; Anchorage, AK

• Perspectives on wilderness in the Arctic
• Origin of political conflict in Arctic wilderness areas
• Protected areas of the central Siberian Arctic: History, status, and prospects
• Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy: How community values are shaping the protection of wild spaces and heritage places
• Collaboration across cultural boundaries to protect wild places: The British Columbia experience
• Planning in the human ecotone: Managing wild places on the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge
• Nature and tourism in Greenland
• Iceland's Central Highlands: Nature conservation, ecotourism, and energy resource utilization
• Can traditional ecological knowledge and wilderness benefit one another?
• Increasing value of wilderness: Protecting cultural heritage
• Biodiversity in Finnish wilderness areas: Historical and cultural constraints to preserve species and habitats
• Anthropogenic impacts on habitat structure and species richness in the west Siberian Arctic
• Evaluating nature and wilderness in Iceland
• Alaska exceptionality hypothesis: Is Alaska wilderness really different?
• Wilderness and well-being: Complexity, time, and psychological growth
• Social construction of arctic wilderness: place meanings, value pluralism, and globalization
• Growing pressures on Circumpolar North wilderness: A case for coordinated research and education

Citation

Watson, Alan E.; Alessa, Lilian; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2002. Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: searching for compatibility in ecological, traditional, and ecotourism values; 2001 May 15-16; Anchorage, AK. Proceedings RMRS-P-26. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 143 p.