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In recent years, rapid changes to Arctic environments and
conditions have spurred much anal-ysis into the melting of sea and
inland ice, the opening up of new sea routes, impacts on flora and
fauna, and increased access to globally desired resources. In this
book the focus is di-rected at a more rarely considered aspect of
climate-induced change in the region: the Arctic cultures and
societies that both affect and are themselves affected by the
changes. For the people of the Arctic, change provokes and
re-emphasises positions as rights and landholders, as well as
ambivalent positions as stakeholders, developers and wardens of
resources. In times characterised by such change and ambivalence,
heritage offers itself as a means by which a community can
meaningfully relate to both past and future; but its use (and the
inclusion and exclusion of particular identity-building elements)
must also be continuously negotiated. In this book scholars from
the social and human sciences explore change and transformation
from two resource-inspired angles: it keeps a constant focus on the
impact of change on tangible and intangible heritage, as well as on
some of the cultural and social heritage features that must
themselves be considered as resources in an environment
characterised by change.
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