This book contains most of the papers presented at the final LASHIPA
workshop in St Petersburg, Russia 2-4 November 2009. The workshop was
organized to finalize the bilateral LASHIPA Russia-Netherlands project
and to discuss possible future cooperation between the participants of
the sub-project of the Eurocore Boreas project and the participants of
the International Polar Year project Large Scale Historical Exploitation
of Polar Areas (LASHIPA).
LASHIPA and CEE/Boreas are linked together by different fields of
expertise. The common grounds of the two projects are the relation
between industrial resource development and science in an international
perspective. Knowledge production and knowledge transfer from science to
industry as well as between different national communities of resource
users are very important in the Arctic as is transfer of legitimacy. All
these fields might give opportunities for future research. The different
contributions in this book try to answer some of these questions.