Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how indigenous peoples make claims that their own forms of resource management not only have relevance in an Arctic regional context, but provide models for the inclusion of indigenous values and environmental knowledge in the design, negotiation and implementation of global environmental policy.

1 Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic Environment 2 Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development 3 Sustaining Environmental Co-operation 4 Ways of Knowing, Ways of Acting: The Claim for Indigenous Environmental Knowledge 5 Hunting and the Right to Development: The Case of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling 6 Cultural Preservation through Cultural Presentation: Indigenous Peoples and Arctic Tourism 7 Constructing Indigenous Environmentalism