2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV Online Program

Paper Session: 4626 The Changing Geographies of the Arctic and Northern Regions: III is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/25/09, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Capri 114, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor Sponsorship(s): Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group Canadian Studies Specialty Group Organizer(s): Timothy Edmund Heleniak - University of Maryland Andrey N Petrov - University of Toronto Chair(s): Timothy Edmund Heleniak - University of Maryland Abstract(s):   5:20 PM   Author(s): *Aileen Aseron Espiritu, Ph.D. - Barents Institute  Abstract Title: '"Resource Curse" in the Arctic: the meaning of oil and gas development for communities in NW Russia and Northern Norway.' 5:40 PM   Author(s): *Andrey N Petrov - University of Northern Iowa  Abstract Title: Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Economic Development Policies in the Russian and Canadian North 6:00 PM   Author(s): *Alexander Alekseev - Moscow State University Vyacheslav Baburin - Moscow State University Maria Goryachko - Moscow State University  Abstract Title: Climate change, the Northeast Passage and settlement of the Russian Arctic 6:20 PM   Author(s): *Timothy Edmund Heleniak - University of Maryland  Abstract Title: Migration in the Most Remote Regions: Magadan and Chukotka 6:40 PM   Author(s): *Tobias Holzlehner - University of Alaska Fairbanks  Abstract Title: Ghost Towns at the End of the World: The Topology of Loss, Ruination and Remembrance in Chukotka, Russia. Session Description: The Arctic and Northern regions are currently undergoing rapid economic, political, environmental, and climatic change. There is a growing interest in the Arctic among both geographers and the general public. This session invites papers examining any aspect of changes in the human, physical, cultural, or environmental geography of the Arctic or northern regions. The 2009 AAG comes near the end of the International Polar Year and provides an opportunity to present results from fieldwork undertaken during that time.

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