Dipping in to the North

Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvLinda Lundmark,Dean B. Carson,Marco Eimermann

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Dipping in to the North explores how changing mobility and migration is affecting the social, economic, cultural, and environmental characteristics of sparsely populated areas of northern Sweden (and places like it).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-02
Mått148 x 210 x 29 mm
Vikt678 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor411
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811566226

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Linda Lundmark is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Umeå University, Sweden. Dean Bradley Carson is Research Professor with the Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities at CQUniversity (Australia), and a Guest Professor with the Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University. Marco Eimermann is Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, and affiliated with the Arctic Research Centre, Umeå University.

1. Dipping in to the North: Living, Working and Traveling in Sparsely Populated Areas.- 2. Who Lives in the Inland North? Dynamic, Diverse, Fragile, Robust.- 3. Small Villages and Socio-Economic Change in Resource Peripheries: A View from Northern Sweden.- 4. The Myth of the Immobile Rural: The Case of Rural Villages in Iceland.- 5. The Changing Youth Population.- 6. Housing in SPAs: Too Much of Nothing or Too Much for ‘Free’?.- 7. Lifestyle Migrants and Intercultural Communication in Swedish Villages.- 8. Who Works in the North? Challenges and Opportunities for Employment.- 9. Tradition Is Essential: Clashing Articulations of Sami Identity, Past and Present.- 10. A Socially Accountable Health and Care Workforce in Northern Sweden: Who Should It Contain, Who Is It for and What Should It Do?.- 11. Is Downshifting Easier in the Countryside? Focus Group Visions on Individual Sustainability Transitions.- 12. Stayin’ Alive: New Associations in Southern Lapland Farming.- 13. Spicy Meatballs and Mango Sylt: Exploring Food Practices as a Means to Promoting Entrepreneurship in Rural Sweden.- 14. Who Travels to the North? Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism.- 15. Cities of the North: Gateways, Competitors or Regional Markets for Hinterland Tourism Destinations?.- 16. Strategic Objective? Contemporary Discourse on Russian Second-Home Ownership in Finland.- 17. Selling Greenness.- 18. Arctification and the Paradox of Overtourism in Sparsely Populated Areas.- 19. Tourism, Seasonality and the Attraction of Youth.- 20 Epilogue: From Growth to Decline to Degrowth? The Future of Northern SPAs.