ABSTRACT
This chapter examines literature on the history and environmental legacies of extractive development in the Arctic and the integration of community concerns into industrial remediation projects. Since the early twentieth century, grand visions of industrial development in the circumpolar Arctic have at times captured the attention and imagination of policy makers and the general public. For Indigenous communities, remediation and redevelopment activities may reawaken or reproduce the negative effects of past rounds of industrial development. Research examining the interaction of reindeer herders and the oil industry in the Yamal Peninsula region of Russia provides a useful example of research into the legacies of resource conflict and coexistence. Contamination has affected the local environment near mineral processing and oil and gas installations, including air pollution, fuel spills, and community wastes, such as at the notoriously polluting Norilsk and Kola Peninsula smelters in Russia.
