Detailed project information

The geographical discoveries in the polar areas have made it possible for individuals and companies to penetrate into the polar areas. The discoveries led not only to further exploration and exploitation of natural resources but also to the development of scientific research. In both cases, settlements and stations were built to facilitate the work and to lodge the people. These settlements and stations play an important role in the coordinating LASHIPA-NL project. Together with the written sources the settlements/stations are the main source of information to address the principal research question of the coordinating LASHIPA-NL project:

Why, how and under what economic circumstances were the natural resources in the Polar Region explored and exploited, what was the role of the settlements/stations in this process? What were the economic results and what were the consequences of these activities for the natural environment, the geopolitical situation, and the development of the international law.

For practical and methodological reasons the LASHIPA research will concentrate on two selected areas: Green Harbour on Spitsbergen and the Antarctica peninsula including South Georgia. Both areas have had a very similar and comparable economical development.

LASHIPA-NL, the Dutch part of the international project will concentrate on the exploitation of the natural resources in Green Harbour in Spitsbergen.

The aim of the post-doc project is to produce a broad synthesis, in general terms explaining the development of polar industries and its consequences from a comparative, bi-polar and international historical perspective. The synthesis not only will draw on the research within the two PhD-projects of LASHIPA-NL in Green Harbour in Spitsbergen, but also on the results of the other LASHIPA projects in the Antarctica Peninsula region and previous research in polar history of science, industry and geopolitics ? research often published in Scandinavian languages and therefore not accessible to the broader international community.

In order to synthesize and address the principal question of the LASHIPA-NL project, the post-doc project will focus on the driving forces behind the exploitation of the natural resources, the technological systems used by the companies, the social organisation of the workers, the control of the area and the natural resources, the geopolitical and international law consequences and the approach of the natural resources. These six different but interrelated themes, cover the four periods studied within the LASHIPA project; the whaling periods in the Arctic (1550-1982) and Antarctic (1904-1982), the mining period in the Arctic (1870-present), fisheries and tourism (1900-present) and the oil industry period in the Arctic (1900-present).

Articles

• S. Sörlin, Dr. D.J. Avango (2007). Humanities and Social Scinces in the International Polar Year: Issues and Projects from a Swedish Perspective.. Journal of Northern Studies. pp. 143-154
• (2008). The history and heritage of natural resource exploitation in the Arctic and Antarctic: the LASHIPA project. Patrimoine de l'industrie. pp. 7-16
• (2008). Europese walvisvaarders en Russische jagers in Green Harbour, Spitsbergen. Paleoaktueel. pp. 210-215
• R. Roura, T. Tin, Dhr. A. Hemmings (2008). Pressures on the wilderness values of the Antarctic continent. International Journal of Wilderness. pp. 7-12
• R.M. Roura (2009). Cultural heritage, tourism narratives, and tourism impacts: A case study of the airship mooring mast at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Téoros. pp. 29-38
• D. Avango, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2009). Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region. Arctic Anthropology. pp. 25-39
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2009). Resource Exploitation and Navigation in a Changing Arctic. Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht [Ook: Heidelberg Journal of International Law]. pp. 655-668
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2009). Back to the Future.. The past, present and future of resource development in a changing Arctic.. Journal of Northern Studies. pp. 9-23
• Dr. D.J. Avango (2009). Integrating the Human Dimension in IPY 2007-2009: Reflections on the Achievements in Sweden.. Journal of Northern Studies. pp. 115-127
• D. Avango, Y. Aalders, H. de Haas, U. Gustafsson, F. Kruse, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2010). Between markets and geo-politics: natural resource exploitation on Spitsbergen from 1600 to the present day.. Polar Record. pp. 29-39
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2010). Wedloop naar de Noordpool.. De ontdekkingsgeschiedenis van het noordpoolgebied.. Groniek. Historisch tijdschrift. pp. 51-64
• R.M. Roura (2010). Monitoring the transformation of historic features in Antarctica and Svalbard: Local processes and regional contexts. Polar Record. pp. 289-311
• U. Gustafsson, H. de Haas, F. Kruse, Y. Aalders, D. Avango, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2011). Between markets and geo-politics: natural resource exploitation on Spitsbergen from 1600 to the present day.. Polar Record. pp. 29-39

Proefschriften

• R.M. Roura (2011). The footprint of Polar Tourism. Tourist behavior at Cultural Heritage sites in Antarctica and Svalbard. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. promotiedatum 28-4-2011

Bijdragen aan boeken

• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2005). Bedreiging van het Nederlands erfgoed in het poolgebied.. in: Koersvast. Vijf eeuwen navigatie op zee. Zaltbommel: . pp. 190-201
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, V. Starkov (2006). The ecological impact of whaling and walrus hunting in Spitsbergen. in: Spitsbergen in the history resarch works. Moscow: . pp. 351-365
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2006). Two centuries of bowhead whaling around Spitsbergen; its impact on the arctic fauna. in: Whaling and history II. New perspectives. Sandefjord: . pp. 87-94
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, I. Stone, M. Schillat (2007). Dutch Whaling and Whaling Sites in the Arctic. in: Polar Essays of the Arctic. Ushuaia: . pp. 123-140
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, D. Veerman (2008). Van mythe naar waarheid. Beelden van het poolgebied in historisch perspectief.. in: Tegenpolen. Op expeditie naar contrastrijke poolgebieden.. Zutphen: . pp. 11-17
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, D. Veerman (2008). Smeerenburger spek en Groenlandse traan. Nederlandse walvisvaart in het Arctisch gebied.. in: Tegenpolen. Op expeditie naar contrastrijke poolgebieden.. Zutphen: . pp. 79-88
• L. Hacquebord, N. Boschman, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2008). The little bird and the big whale. in: A Passion for the Pole. Ethological Research in Polar Regions. Groningen: . pp. 85-102
• Drs. H.R. de Haas, D. Veerman (2008). Nederlandse ondernemers op poolavontuur. De Nederlandsche Spitsbergen Compagnie, 1920-1932. in: Tegenpolen. Op Expeditie naar contrastrijke poolgebieden. Zutphen: . pp. 10-10
• A. Houltz, Dr. D.J. Avango, M. Morell, A. Houltz, E. Silven, M. Nisser, B. Lundström (2008). Arbetet hjältar? Skildringar av liv och arbete i Arktis under tidigt 1900-tal. in: Arbete pågår - i tankens mönster och kroppens miljöer. Uppsala: . pp. 37-88
• D. Avango, V.F. Starkov, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2008). Archaeological Studies at Svalbard Archipelago according to IPY Programme. in: Changes of Natural Environment and Climate; natural and possible consequent human-induced catastrophes.. Moscow: . pp. 301-307
• (2008). . in: Arbetes hjältar? Skildringar av liv ovh arbete i Arktis under tidigt 1900-tal. : . pp. Chapt. 2, pp. 37-88
• R. Roura, K. Bastmeijer, T. Koivurova, K. Bastmeijer (2008). Environmental Impact Assessment in Antarctica. in: Theory of Practice of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment. Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development 1.. Leiden: . pp. 175-219
• R.M. Roura, S. Barr, P. Chaplin (2008). Antarctic scientific bases: Cultural heritage and environmental perspectives 1983-2008. in: Historical Polar Bases - Preservation and Management. Oslo: . pp. 38-52
• R.M. Roura, D. Veerman (2008). Vignetten van het hoge noorden. Tourisme in het Arctisch gebied. in: Tegenpolen: Op expeditie naar contrastrijke poolgebieden. Zutphen: . pp. 114-222
• V.F. Starkov, D. Avango, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2008). Archaeological Studies at Svalbard Archipelago according to IPY Programme. in: Changes of Natural Environment and Climate; natural and possible consequent human-induced catastrophes. Moscow: . pp. 301-307
• R.M. Roura, J. Saarinen, M. Hall (2010). Cultural heritage tourism in Antarctica and Svalbard: Patterns, impacts and policies. in: Tourism and change in the Polar Regions: Climate environment and experiences. London and New York: . pp. 180-203
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, C. Lüdeke, S. Barr (2010). The Dutch Contribution to the Second International Polar Year 1832-1933. in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: . pp. 184-190
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, S. Barr, C. Lüdeke (2010). The Netherlands; Beset in the Ice of the Kara Sea. in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPY's);. Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: . pp. 63-71
• Y. Aalders, Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord (2010). Cross-cultural contacts between European whalers and Russian hunters.. in: A Circumpolar Re-appraisal: The Legacy of Gutorm Gjessing (1906-1979). Oxford: . pp. 111-121
• Drs. U.I. Gustafsson (2010). Early whaling in the north. Industrialising in the Arctic: Settlement Design and Technical Adaptations of Modern Whaling Stations in Spitsbergen and Bear Island.. in: Papers presented at a symposium in Sandefjord on the 18th and 19th of June 2009. Sandefjord: . pp. 45-58
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, S. Barr, C. Lüdecke (2010). The Netherlands. Beset in the Ice of the Kara Sea. in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: . pp. 63-71
• Prof. dr. L. Hacquebord, C. Lüdecke, S. Barr (2010). The Dutch Contribution to the Second International Polar Year 1932-1933. in: The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs). Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: . pp. 184-190