UID:
edocfu_9959231023502883
Format:
1 online resource (324 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-85097-0
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9786612850974
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0-7735-6140-4
Content:
For nearly five hundred years, men have been drawn by the vision of a commercially viable and strategically advantageous seaway that runs west and north from Europe to the Far East. Though costs currently outweigh benefits, the oil and natural gas finds in the Beaufort Sea and the Canadian Arctic islands, as well as the possibility of higher energy prices in the 1990s, have made a gradual increase in the volume and duration of navigation in and about the Passage seem likely. While many of the technological obstacles to regular surface shipping have been overcome, new obstacles, largely political, are rapidly becoming apparent. These problems are thoroughly discussed, as are the international legal aspects of Canadian Arctic waters policy, environmental and socio?economic implications of Arctic marine transportation, and the issue of subsurface activities. In his concluding essay the editor, Franklyn Griffiths, suggests that if Canadians are to become true keepers of the Passage they will need a better understanding of their Arctic marine spaces and a new appreciation of themselves as a northern people.
Note:
"Sponsored by the Dalhousie Ocean Studies Program"--p. ix.
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Where Vision and Illusion Meet""; ""PART ONE: SETTING""; ""2 Bringing the Outside Inside: Towards Development of the Passage""; ""3 Inuit Politics and the Arctic Seas""; ""PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC POLITICS""; ""4 The Manhattan Voyages and Their Aftermath""; ""5 The Negotiation of Article 234""; ""6 Arctic Shipping: An American Perspective""; ""7 Greenlandic and Danish Attitudes to Canadian Arctic Shipping""; ""PART THREE: CANADIAN ARCTIC POLITICS""; ""8 Lessons of the Arctic Pilot Project""; ""9 Environmental Politics and Inuit Self-Government""
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""10 Defence and Policing in Arctic Canada""""11 Polar Icebreakers: The Politics of Inertia""; ""PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS""; ""12 Beyond the Arctic Sublime""; ""Appendix: Statement on Sovereignty, 10 September 1985""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""MAPS""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7735-0613-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780773561403
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