Understanding the Many Faces of Human Security: Perspectives of Northern Indigenous Peoples addresses the different aspects of the human security challenges threatening Northern indigenous peoples. These peoples, whose unique, nature-based livelihoods maintain their identity, face difficulties linked to a changing natural and social environment. Their traditional worldviews are challenged as the world they have known for generations is literally melting away. The North experiences numerous pressures linked to rapid modernization, industrialization, demographic pressure and cultural changes. These threats are presented from various angles, such as indigenous understanding of security, governance, sustainability, livelihood practices, mining, nature-based resources and land use management, gender and the elderly. The focus groups of the book are the Ainu, Inuit, Nenets, Sámi and the Mongolian indigenous herders.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; List and Biography of Contributors; Introduction: Indigenous peoples of the North and human security Kamrul Hossain, J. Miguel Roncero Martin, Anna Petrétei, and Filip Holienčin; Chapter 1 Indigenous Security Governance in the North: Structure and Promotional Tools Kamrul Hossain; Chapter 2 Environment, Identity, Autonomy: Inuit Perspectives on Arctic Security Wilfrid Greaves; Chapter 3 The Narrated ’Other’ – Challenging Inuit Sustainability Through the European Discourse on the Seal Hunt Nikolas Sellheim; Chapter 4 Economic Security in the Canadian Arctic Heather Exner-Pirot; Chapter 5 Threats to Human Security Imposed on the Ainu in Biratori, Hokkaido, Japan Hiroshi Maruyama; Chapter 6 Is it Possible to Hear the Voices of Ainu Women? Silence and Empowerment Masumi Matsumoto; Chapter 7 The Common Threats to the Livelihood Security of the Nenets People Elena Tonkova; Chapter 8 The Security of the Sámi People Michael Sheehan; Chapter 9 Securing Sámi Livelihoods – Does Mining Undermine Traditional Ways of Living? Anna Petrétei; Chapter 10 ILO 169 and Securing of Sámi Rights to Lands, Nature-Based Livelihood, and Natural Resources Øyvind Ravna; Chapter 11 Russian Sámi in Context of Indigenous Security Svetlana Vinogradova; Chapter 12 Challenges to the Human Security of Elderly Sámi in Finnish and Swedish Lapland Shahnaj Begum and Päivi Naskali; Chapter 13 Human Security for Mongolian Herders: Evolving Risks and Opportunities Vigya Sharma; Index.