Overview
- The authoritative compilation of expert perspectives on environmental security
- Unique sharing of international, interdisciplinary and inclusive perspectives
- Practical strategies identified to promote cooperation and prevent conflict
- Urgency to balance environmental protection, economic prosperity and social equity emphasized
- Global challenge of balancing national interests and common interests highlighted
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (32 papers)
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Front Matter
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Opening Remarks
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Environmental State-Change in the Arctic Ocean
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Geopolitics of the Arctic Ocean
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Risks of Instabilities from the Arctic Ocean State-Change
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About this book
This seminal book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop at the University of Cambridge with Russian co-directorship, enabling the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia about security issues in the Arctic Ocean. Involving interdisciplinary participation with experts from 17 nations, including all of the Arctic states, this workshop itself reflects progress in Arctic cooperation and collaboration. Interests now are awakening globally to take advantage of extensive energy, shipping, fishing and tourism opportunities in the Arctic Ocean as it is being transformed from a permanent sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea. This environmental state-change is introducing inherent risks of political, economic and cultural instabilities that are centralized among the Arctic states and indigenous peoples with repercussions globally. Responding with urgency, environmental security is presented as an "integrated approach for assessing and responding to the risks as well as the opportunities generated by an environmental state-change." In this book – diverse perspectives on environmental security in the Arctic Ocean are shared in chapters from high-level diplomats, parliamentarians and government officials of Arctic and non-Arctic states; leaders of Arctic indigenous peoples organizations; international law advisors from Arctic states as well as the United Nations; directors of inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations; managers of multi-national corporations; political scientists, historians and economists; along with Earth system scientists and oceanographers. Building on the “common arctic issues” of “sustainable development and environmental protection” established by the Arctic Council – environmental security offers an holistic approach to assess opportunities and risks as well as develop infrastructure responses with law of the sea as the key “international legalframework” to “promote the peaceful uses” of the Arctic Ocean. With vision for future generations, environmental security is a path to balance national interests and common interests in the Arctic Ocean for the lasting benefit of all.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean
Editors: Paul Arthur Berkman, Alexander N. Vylegzhanin
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4713-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4712-8Published: 26 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4751-7Published: 26 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4713-5Published: 29 November 2012
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLI, 459
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Sustainable Development, International Economics, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Oceanography