The Routledge handbook of the polar regions / edited by Mark Nuttall, Torben R. Christensen and Martin J. Siegert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : locating the polar regions / Mark Nuttall, Torben R. Christensen and Martin J. Siegert -- Exploring and mapping the Arctic : histories of discovery and knowledge / John McCannon -- Exploring and mapping the Antarctic : histories of discovery and knowledge / Ursula Rack -- The Arctic in literature and the popular imagination / Heidi Hansson -- The Antarctic in literature and the popular imagination / Elizabeth Leane -- Self-determination and indigenous governance in the Arctic / Mark Nuttall -- Indigenous cartographies of Arctic spaces and places / Kaitlin Young -- Circumpolar health and well-being / Helle Møller -- Education in the Arctic : trends, challenges and possibilities / Andrew Hodgkins -- Historical sites and heritage in the polar regions / Dag Avango -- Biodiversity in the polar regions in a warming world / Hans Meltofte -- The geological histories of polar environments / Tom Jordan -- Polar oceans and their global significance / Rory Bingham -- Polar sea ice as a barometer and driver of change / Jeremy Wilkinson and Julienne Stroeve -- The current health of polar ice sheets and implications for sea level / Mal McMillan -- Polar climatology and evidence for global warming / Gareth Marshall -- Post last glacial maximum processes in the polar regions / Pippa Whitehouse -- Biogeochemical cycling in glacial environments / Elizabeth A. Bagshaw -- Permafrost dynamics / Margareta Johansson -- Polar feedbacks in a changing climate / Richard Hodgkins -- The Antarctic Treaty, territorial claims and a continent for science / Klaus Dodds -- The polar regions and the law of the sea / Donald R. Rothwell -- The Arctic Council : governance and international relations / Timo Koivurova -- National Antarctic programmes : the politics-science interface / Anita Dey Nuttall -- Sustainable development and sustainability in Arctic political discourses / Birger Poppel -- Indigeneity, sovereignty and Arctic indigenous internationalism / Jessica Shadian -- Geopolitics and security in the Arctic / Andreas Østhagen -- Polar tourism : status, trends, futures / Emma J. Stewart and Daniela Liggett -- Consulting Arctic energy : from political hearings to roundtable events / Arthur Mason -- Social and environmental impact assessments in the Arctic / Anne Merrild Hansen, Sanne Vamme Larsen and Bram Noble -- Northern fisheries / Alf Håkon Hoel -- The future of Antarctica : minerals, bioprospecting and fisheries / Sanjay Chaturvedi -- Conservation and environmental governance in the polar regions / Mark Nuttall -- Polar technology and scientific discovery : exploring the great ice sheets through geophysics / Martin J. Siegert -- Looking into the past : ice and sediment cores / Robert McKay -- Subglacial access and investigation / Keith Makinson -- Upper atmosphere physics and chemistry / Sheila Kirkwood -- Ocean-land interactions and the Arctic carbon cycle / Frans-Jan Parmentier -- Back to the future : detecting past Arctic change and investing in future observations / Terry V. Callaghan, Margareta Johansson and Nadya Matveyeva.