Environmental security in the Arctic Ocean
Subtitle: promoting co-operation and preventing conflict
By: Paul Arthur Berkman
Contributors: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Series: Whitehall paper -- 75; Whitehall paper series -- 75.
Publisher: Published on behalf of The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies by Routledge Journals
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780855161538
Subjects: Environmental protection; Environmental policy
Description: The North Pole is being transformed from a sea-ice cap to a seasonally ice-free sea within the next few decades. This fundamental shift in the boundary conditions of the Arctic Ocean will create a new natural system with different dynamics than anything previously experienced by humans in the region. With the diminishing ice cover, interests are awakening globally to take advantage of extensive energy, shipping, fishing and tourism prospects in the Arctic Ocean. A range of states, including the major Arctic powers, are increasingly asserting their sovereignty seawards. National security policies are being declared and nuclear-capable states are adjusting their strategic deployments in the Arctic Ocean.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.