Contents
David R. Klein
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Perspectives on Wilderness in the Arctic ...................................................... 1
James N. Gladden
Origin of Political Conflict in Arctic Wilderness Areas .................................... 7
Andrei P. Laletin
Dmitry V. Vladyshevskii
Alexei D. Vladyshevskii
Protected Areas of the Central Siberian Arctic:
History, Status, and Prospects ................................................................. 15
Angela Stadel
Raymond Taniton
Heidi Heder
Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy:
How Community Values Are Shaping the Protection
of Wild Spaces and Heritage Places ........................................................ 20
Robert E. Pfister
Collaboration Across Cultural Boundaries to Protect Wild Places:
The British Columbia Experience ............................................................. 27
Stewart Allen
Planning in the Human Ecotone: Managing Wild Places on the
Togiak National Wildlife Refuge ............................................................... 36
Berit C. Kaae
Nature and Tourism in Greenland ............................................................... 43
Björn Gunnarsson
Maria-Victoria Gunnarsson
Iceland’s Central Highlands: Nature Conservation,
Ecotourism, and Energy Resource Utilization .......................................... 54
Henry P. Huntington
Can Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wilderness
Benefit One Another? ............................................................................... 64
Herbert O. Anungazuk
Increasing Value of Wilderness: Protecting Cultural Heritage ..................... 69
Anna-Liisa Sippola
Biodiversity in Finnish Wilderness Areas: Historical and
Cultural Constraints to Preserve Species and Habitats ............................ 75
Olga Khitun
Olga Rebristaya
Anthropogenic Impacts on Habitat Structure and Species
Richness in the West Siberian Arctic ........................................................ 85
Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir
Evaluating Nature and Wilderness in Iceland .............................................. 96
Gregory Brown
Alaska Exceptionality Hypothesis: Is Alaska Wilderness
Really Different? ..................................................................................... 105
Joar Vittersø
Wilderness and Well-Being: Complexity, Time, and
Psychological Growth ............................................................................. 115
Daniel R. Williams
Social Construction of Arctic Wilderness: Place Meanings,
Value Pluralism, and Globalization ......................................................... 120
Lilian Alessa
Alan Watson
Growing Pressures on Circumpolar North Wilderness:
A Case for Coordinated Research and Education .................................. 133
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