Michael Pretes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1347714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Pretes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Pretes |
| SIGNATURE | PRETES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Maritime dependency and economic prosperity: Why access to oceanic trade matters
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Openings in the body of ‘capitalism’: Capital flows and diverse economic possibilities in Kiribati
Much of the post‐development agenda is concerned with decoupling Eurocentric imaginings of development from development practices in ‘remote’ regions and exploring new forms of economy that can enhance local well‐being. In the South Pacific (and elsewhere), small peripheral economies have confronted globalisation in varying ways. Some places, such as the Micronesian island state of Kiribati, have engaged directly with the global economy by invest…
Tourism and nationalism
Microequity and Microfinance
Touring mines and mining tourists
The meaning of marginality: Interpretations and perceptions in social science
Interpretations and perceptions of the meaning of marginality and marginal regions differ among social scientists. Despite using shared sets of characteristics and determinants about marginality and marginal regions, no clear consensus has emerged. In this study we surveyed geographers and other social scientists in the United States and Canada in order to assess perceptions of marginality and marginal regions. Our analysis centered on characteri…
Development and infinity
Postmodern tourism
The Kola Peninsula: Geography, History and Resources
The Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia is one of the most important economic regions in the circumpolar North. The region contains valuable natural resources, including a wide variety of mineral and fish resources, and is proximate to the large gas fields of the Barents Sea. A large population, industrial complexes, and military infrastructure are also characteristic of the region. The Kola Peninsula developed rapidly during the Soviet period (19…
Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes, edited by Oran Young and Gail Osherenko
Economic development in the Kola region, USSR: An overview
The Kola region of northwestern USSR is the most highly developed area of the circumpolar north. Development based on exploitation and industrial refinement of natural resources, especially minerals and fish, has produced severe environmental damage in Kola and in neighbouring Norway and Finland. This article reviews the region's resources, existing development strategy and damage, and propose an alternative strategy that is environmentally and s…
Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Legal Framework, by Francisco Orrego Vicuña
Investment Strategies for Northern Cash Windfalls: Learning from the Alaskan Experience
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) and the creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund (1976) provided Native and non-Native Alaskans with two means of trust capital investment. To date Native Alaskans have largely chosen a strategy of investment in local established and/or new businesses, while the Permanent Fund has pursued a portfolio management strategy. Both investment means were examined against their stated ends (for the former: prof…
Beyond boom and bust: A strategy for sustainable development in the North
Many northern regions of North America have come to rely heavily on extraction of non-renewable resources for their income, at the expense of traditional land-based economies. Such extraction leads to boom and bust income, destructive to long-term planning for sustainable development. Natural resource trust funds, as exemplified in Alberta, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico, would help to provide the stability that is currently lacking in Y…
Conflict and Cooperation: The Alaska Permanent Fund, the Alberta Heritage Fund and Federalism
Antarctica: The Next Decade, Report of a study group chaired by Sir Anthony Parsons
How to Find Information on Canadian Natural Resources: A Guide to the Literature, by Gabriel Pal
Underdevelopment in Two Norths: The Brazilian Amazon and the Canadian Arctic
The developmental scholar Andre Gunder Frank has constructed a model to explain regional underdevelopment within developed nations. Underdevelopment is defined as the inability to control the rents from local resources and limited input into political decision making. The model is based on the concepts of metropolis and satellite, the satellite being a region that is politically, socially, and economically dependent on the metropolis, Frank appli…
Tourism and nationalism
Postmodern tourism
The meaning of marginality: Interpretations and perceptions in social science
Interpretations and perceptions of the meaning of marginality and marginal regions differ among social scientists. Despite using shared sets of characteristics and determinants about marginality and marginal regions, no clear consensus has emerged. In this study we surveyed geographers and other social scientists in the United States and Canada in order to assess perceptions of marginality and marginal regions. Our analysis centered on characteri…
Touring mines and mining tourists
Microequity and Microfinance
Openings in the body of ‘capitalism’: Capital flows and diverse economic possibilities in Kiribati
Much of the post‐development agenda is concerned with decoupling Eurocentric imaginings of development from development practices in ‘remote’ regions and exploring new forms of economy that can enhance local well‐being. In the South Pacific (and elsewhere), small peripheral economies have confronted globalisation in varying ways. Some places, such as the Micronesian island state of Kiribati, have engaged directly with the global economy by invest…
Underdevelopment in Two Norths: The Brazilian Amazon and the Canadian Arctic
The developmental scholar Andre Gunder Frank has constructed a model to explain regional underdevelopment within developed nations. Underdevelopment is defined as the inability to control the rents from local resources and limited input into political decision making. The model is based on the concepts of metropolis and satellite, the satellite being a region that is politically, socially, and economically dependent on the metropolis, Frank appli…
Development and infinity
Economic development in the Kola region, USSR: An overview
The Kola region of northwestern USSR is the most highly developed area of the circumpolar north. Development based on exploitation and industrial refinement of natural resources, especially minerals and fish, has produced severe environmental damage in Kola and in neighbouring Norway and Finland. This article reviews the region's resources, existing development strategy and damage, and propose an alternative strategy that is environmentally and s…
Beyond boom and bust: A strategy for sustainable development in the North
Many northern regions of North America have come to rely heavily on extraction of non-renewable resources for their income, at the expense of traditional land-based economies. Such extraction leads to boom and bust income, destructive to long-term planning for sustainable development. Natural resource trust funds, as exemplified in Alberta, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico, would help to provide the stability that is currently lacking in Y…
Conflict and Cooperation: The Alaska Permanent Fund, the Alberta Heritage Fund and Federalism
Antarctica: The Next Decade, Report of a study group chaired by Sir Anthony Parsons
How to Find Information on Canadian Natural Resources: A Guide to the Literature, by Gabriel Pal
Underdevelopment in Two Norths: The Brazilian Amazon and the Canadian Arctic
The developmental scholar Andre Gunder Frank has constructed a model to explain regional underdevelopment within developed nations. Underdevelopment is defined as the inability to control the rents from local resources and limited input into political decision making. The model is based on the concepts of metropolis and satellite, the satellite being a region that is politically, socially, and economically dependent on the metropolis, Frank appli…
Investment Strategies for Northern Cash Windfalls: Learning from the Alaskan Experience
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) and the creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund (1976) provided Native and non-Native Alaskans with two means of trust capital investment. To date Native Alaskans have largely chosen a strategy of investment in local established and/or new businesses, while the Permanent Fund has pursued a portfolio management strategy. Both investment means were examined against their stated ends (for the former: prof…
Beyond boom and bust: A strategy for sustainable development in the North
Many northern regions of North America have come to rely heavily on extraction of non-renewable resources for their income, at the expense of traditional land-based economies. Such extraction leads to boom and bust income, destructive to long-term planning for sustainable development. Natural resource trust funds, as exemplified in Alberta, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico, would help to provide the stability that is currently lacking in Y…
Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Legal Framework, by Francisco Orrego Vicuña
Economic development in the Kola region, USSR: An overview
The Kola region of northwestern USSR is the most highly developed area of the circumpolar north. Development based on exploitation and industrial refinement of natural resources, especially minerals and fish, has produced severe environmental damage in Kola and in neighbouring Norway and Finland. This article reviews the region's resources, existing development strategy and damage, and propose an alternative strategy that is environmentally and s…
The Kola Peninsula: Geography, History and Resources
The Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia is one of the most important economic regions in the circumpolar North. The region contains valuable natural resources, including a wide variety of mineral and fish resources, and is proximate to the large gas fields of the Barents Sea. A large population, industrial complexes, and military infrastructure are also characteristic of the region. The Kola Peninsula developed rapidly during the Soviet period (19…
Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes, edited by Oran Young and Gail Osherenko
Postmodern tourism
Development and infinity
The meaning of marginality: Interpretations and perceptions in social science
Interpretations and perceptions of the meaning of marginality and marginal regions differ among social scientists. Despite using shared sets of characteristics and determinants about marginality and marginal regions, no clear consensus has emerged. In this study we surveyed geographers and other social scientists in the United States and Canada in order to assess perceptions of marginality and marginal regions. Our analysis centered on characteri…
Microequity and Microfinance
Touring mines and mining tourists
Tourism and nationalism
Openings in the body of ‘capitalism’: Capital flows and diverse economic possibilities in Kiribati
Much of the post‐development agenda is concerned with decoupling Eurocentric imaginings of development from development practices in ‘remote’ regions and exploring new forms of economy that can enhance local well‐being. In the South Pacific (and elsewhere), small peripheral economies have confronted globalisation in varying ways. Some places, such as the Micronesian island state of Kiribati, have engaged directly with the global economy by invest…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Maritime dependency and economic prosperity: Why access to oceanic trade matters
Political science (13 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)