This book focuses on the understudied social and cultural dimensions of sustainability in the Arctic.

Monica Tennberg, a research professor, conducts research about Arctic political economy: that is, about connections between wealth, power and well-being. She has recently contributed to the book Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic - Perspectives from the Barents Area (2017).

Hanna Lempinen is a university lecturer in political science at the University of Lapland, Finland, and a visiting senior researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. Her research interests include social and cultural aspects of sustainability, especially in the context of Arctic large-scale energy and industrial development. Her book Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability was published by Palgrave in 2018.

Susanna Pirnes is a doctoral candidate in political science. Her research interests are related to the Russian Arctic, Arctic identities, memories and history politics.

1. Sustainabilities in the resourceful North; Part I Entangled resources and sustainabilities; 2. Greenland and the elusive better future: the affective merging of resources and independence; 3. Promise and threat: living with nuclear in the Finnish context; 4. Untied resource as a threa/-t/-d for social fabric(ation); 5. "Prudent development:" the (r)evolution of the Arctic energy concern in the 2007-2017 Arctic Energy Summit Reports; 6. Socially Responsible Investments (SRIs) in the European Arctic: new pathways for global investors to outperform conventional capital investments?; 7. Resources on the Arctic border: views of the Finnish municipalities and the EU`s cross-border program; Part II Whose imaginaries?; 8. The political ecology of northern adaptation: power, nature and knowledge; 9. Arctic expertise and its social dimensions in Lapland; 10. When gender matters: equality as a source of Arctic sustainability?; 11. Sámi cultural heritage and tourism in Finland; 12. History as a resource in Russian Arctic politics; 13. The resourceful North: divergent imaginaries from the European Arctic; Index