The Will to Drill - Mining in Arctic Communites

Chapter 1. Mining in Arctic communities.- Chapter 2. Governing complexity: Theories, perspectives and methodology studying sustainable development of mining in the arctic.- Chapter 3. Institutional conditions in Arctic Frontiers - the case of Mining in Greenland, Northwest-Russia and Northern Norway.- Chapter 4. 'Legitimizing business? - Environmental awareness in the Norwegian Mining Industry'.- Chapter 5. Community-company interdependence in the Scandinavian Arctic - symbiosis or parallel play?.- Chapter 6. Sustainability and mining - the case of Kola Peninsula.- Chapter 7. The Khibiny: transformation of relationship between mining projects and local society.- Chapter 8. Sacrifice zones for building a sustainable state? Greenlandic mining politics in a transitional phase.- Chapter 9. The Nussir case and the battle for legitimacy: Scientific assessments, defining power and political contestations.- Chapter 10. The municipal No to mining: The case concerning the reopening of the Biedjovaggi gold mine in Kautokeino municipality, Norway.- Chapter 11. Coexistence in Mountain Landscapes - a local narrative of hope and uncertainty.- Chapter 12. The Will to Drill. Revisiting Arctic Communities.

Brigt Dale is a Senior Researcher at Nordland Research Institute in Bodo, Norway, in their Environment and Society research group. With background in visual and social anthropology and political science, a combination of ethnographic approaches, security theory and a critical constructivist approach has permeated his research. Over the past decade he has been focussing mainly on the political, social, cultural and economic preconditions for and consequences of extractive industries' activities in Arctic communities. His PhD work on petroleum development in the Arctic was financed through the International Polar Year initiative (2007-08), and in the following years he has been participating in several international research projects, focusing on petroleum as a challenge to Arctic societies, on mining activities in communities, and on sustainability challenges in the aquaculture and primary industries. Dale lives and works out of the Lofoten islands, Northern Norway.

Ingrid Bay-Larsen is a research director at Nordland Research Institute, heading the Environment and Society research group. The group provides scientific knowledge on sustainable development of northern communities, particularly how these communities can meet climatic and socioeconomic change. Their wide project portfolio has a specific focus on primary and extractive industries, and the transformation to low carbon societies in the north. Bay-Larsen's research over the last fifteen years has investigated how values, ethics, knowledge systems and environmental risks are perceived and institutionalised in environmental governance. This also includes the interrelation between science and politics, and the role that different forms of knowledge have in ensuring efficient and legitimate environmental decisions. Bay-Larsen has been involved in EU-projects focusing on remediation of contaminated ecosystems, including areas in use for food production. How to define and resolve