Lhashemi

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Background

     * Indigenous people 
           * Inuit Indigenous people (whose ancestors occupied the Arctic nearly 4000 years ago)
           * Value of indigenous knowledge 
    * Who has claims/right to area
    *  Under UNCLOS: 5 nations have EEZs that cover parts of the Arctic Circle
               * Canada
               * Denmark
              * Norway
              * Russia 
              * USA
    * Different countries’ position regarding arctic resources
    * Relationship with Climate Change

Map Here is a link to a map of the arctic circle's resource basins: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=4650 Resources Oil Trade routes (include picture) Tourism Fisheries Resources: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3049/fs2008-3049.pdf The U.S. Geological Survey conducted research on the undiscovered resources north of the arctic circle. The research revealed that a least 50 million barrels of natural gas and oil have accumulation underneath the arctic's icy surface (https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3049/fs2008-3049.pdf).

     * Oil
     * Trade routes (include picture)      
     * Tourism 

Environmental Justice

     * Climate refugees

Environmental justice is expressed in three methods, location, recognition, and procedural. It is important to get the participation of stakeholders on the development of the area. Local people tend to have a high knowledge of the land thus, they provide insight into what the natural habitat can handle. Livelihoods of the indigenous people in the area are being threatened by the development for resource extraction. The development of oil rigs can disturb the lifestyles of the Sami people, all while not taking them into consideration at all. Certain practices of getting their participation are inadequate. For example, corporations who come into the area, and ltalk about their project to the local people using vocabulary unknown to the people and then stating that the project has been discussed with the local people and has no objections when no one can object because they do not understand the project in the first place.

     * Global North vs. South 
            * Environmental impacts disproportionately affects poor countries, even though it’s the developed nations that will be causing it wealth gap will widen between north and south if the north makes profits

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