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dc.contributor.authorNyseth, Torill
dc.contributor.authorViken, Arvid
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-19T10:34:08Z
dc.date.available2016-02-19T10:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-03
dc.description.abstractThis article engages with knowledge management in governing vulnerable polar areas and tourism. Since the 1870’s Svalbard has been a cruise tourism destination. Due to less ice during the summer period, the number of tourists visiting the remote northeast corner of the archipelago has increased significantly and the potential negative impact on this vulnerable natural environment has become an issue. The standard modes of managing these areas have either been to apply the precautionary principle or measures based on scientific evidence. As management models, both principles are however, for a number of reasons contested. This paper argues for a third model, partly practiced based on a form of monitoring knowledge circulating in 'communities of practice' developed over time. This form of knowledge constitute viable expertise for governing and management of the environment-tourism nexus in the areas but needs to be acknowledged as a complementary management platform. The article demonstrates how such monitoring can be done, and suggests some principles for developing monitoring knowledge for administrative and management puposes.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is accepted manuscript version. Published version available at <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003224741500039X>http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003224741500039X</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationPolar Record, Volume 52 Issue 01, January 2016, pp 66-75en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1258365
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S003224741500039X
dc.identifier.issn0032-2474
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8520
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8092
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleCommunities of practice in the management of an Arctic environment: monitoring knowledge as complementary to scientific knowledge and the precautionary principle?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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