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The Earth is Faster Now:
Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change
Editors: I. Krupnik and D. Jolly
Paperback: 384 pages
ISBN 0-9720449-0-6
ARCUS has published a collection of ten papers describing contemporary
efforts to document indigenous knowledge of environmental change in the
Arctic, with an emphasis on the ways arctic peoples perceive, influence,
and are influenced by their surroundings. This publication was funded by
the NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program and compiled and edited by Igor
Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly. "The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous
Observations of Arctic Environmental Change" is available from ARCUS for
$20 U.S. Dollars.
"The Earth is Faster Now" reviews major individual studies on indigenous
knowledge and climate change undertaken during the past few years,
primarily in North America. The volume offers a comparative survey of
research practices and paradigms used in current documentation studies
of indigenous knowledge, and a general assessment of the field and of
the data collected. The text is accompanied by local observations,
quotations from interviews, personal observations, illustrations, and
photographs. Contributors include well-known academic researchers and
Native people from Canada, Finland, and the United States. The
publication is designed to be useful to both researchers and communities
as a tool for networking and communication.
Igor Krupnik (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) is
currently working on a project in collaboration with St. Lawrence Island
Yup'ik. Dyanna Jolly was affiliated with the University of Manitoba and
the Inuit Observations on Climate Change project in Sachs Harbour,
Canada in 1999-2000. She is now working on co-management issues in New
Zealand at the Center for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development
at Lincoln University, New Zealand.
The editors and ARCUS would like to thank the NSF Arctic Social Sciences
Program for the funding to make this volume happen; the Arctic Studies
Center, Smithsonian Institution, for additional funding; the authors for
their hard work, patience, and dedication to working together, and
especially the people who shared the important knowledge that is
documented in this volume.
You may download a low-resolution PDF of the front matter, including
table of contents and list of contributors at the web site:
http://www.arcus.org/EIFN/index.html
To order a copy, download and print the order form and enclose a check
or money order in U.S. dollars for $20 per copy. Discounts are available
for resellers and for orders of 10 or more copies. To ask about
discounts, e-mail arcus [at] arcus.org, phone 907/474-1600, or fax
907/474-1604.
For more information about the publication described here, please
contact ARCUS Project Manager Sue Mitchell at:
phone: 907/474-1600
fax: 907/474-1604
Email: sue [at] arcus.org
This publication may be cited as:
Krupnik, Igor, and Jolly, Dyanna (eds.). 2002. The Earth is Faster Now:
Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change. Fairbanks,
Alaska: Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. 384 pp.
ISBN 0-9720449-0-6.