Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean: Promoting Co-operation and Preventing Conflict

by Paul Arthur Berkman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855161531
• ISBN13: 9780855161538
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"