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CLUE
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definition: Short Title: CLUE Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=337 Life in the Arctic is changing very fast, and there are serious problems behind the façade of its modernization process. High rates of morbidity and mortality, increased migration, unemployment and crisis of the native economies are taking place in many Arctic countries along with aggravated environmental problems contamination and degradation of the natural environment, rapid climate change, and shrinking of the pristine and traditional land use areas. Interdependence of social, economic and environmental problems, with their particular manifestations in the regions of traditional subsistence by indigenous peoples, require development of specific methods of scientific inquiry, aimed at understanding the various national and local approaches to their solutions. Northern populations, depending upon how they are recognized within a wide variety of legal and political frameworks, thereby obtain access to land-based resources. The immemorial presence of people on the land has often provided the justification for their confirmed rights or stipulated privileges (an important distinction) with regard to land use. Once states have defined who can access land resources and what kinds of usage such access might entail, however, a circular dynamic is formed whereby categories of people (and even historically well-defined groups) aspire to be "recognized" according to these legal criteria. The concept of "indigenous people" has come to mean different things in different countries and to be associated with a wide variety of accompanying land use regulations. Even the size of a defined ethnic group can be of significance with respect to resource use, as in Russia where placement of peoples on the list of the "small peoples of the North" holds great significance for their land rights and development, but might also thereby come to disqualify them from membership in a larger group wit…
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