1st Edition

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

By Paul Berkman Copyright 2012
136 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword  Admiral James Stavridis, Commander, US European Command, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO

1. Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean: Fostering Co-operation and Preventing Conflict

2. The Arctic Ocean

3. Beyond National Boundaries

4. Matters of Security

5. Arctic Ocean Stewardship

6. Global Statesmanship

Biography

Paul Arthur Berkman is Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and a Research Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an oceanographer working on interdisciplinary connections between science, policy and information technology to promote cooperation and prevent conflict in the Arctic Ocean, Antarctica and regions beyond sovereign jurisdictions more generally.