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Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic

Rebecca Pincus and Saleem H. Ali

Abstract

Climate change, economic pressures, and shifting geopolitical balances promise unprecedented challenges to the preservation of polar environments and the sustainability of Arctic communities. This volume brings together experts in the Arctic and Antarctic to approach questions about polar governance, environmental protection, and human rights from new perspectives. The emphasis is on cooperation, not conflict, and the use of creative means of diplomacy to build sustainable and adaptive governance structures that will permit the polar regions to survive the challenges of climate change. The fir ... More

Keywords: Arctic, Antarctic, polar, governance, diplomacy, sustainability, human rights, ecology, North

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780300205169
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2015 DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300205169.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Rebecca Pincus, editor
University of Vermont

Saleem H. Ali, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword

Preface

Introduction A Cold Prelude to a Warming World

Saleem H. Ali and Rebecca Pincus

Part One The Law: Legal Structures in Polar Regions

1. Polar Environmental Governance and Nonstate Actors

Sébastien Duyck

2. Interlinkages in International Law: The Convention on Biological Diversity as a Model for Linking Territory, Environment, and Indigenous Rights in the Marine Arctic

Betsy Baker

3. An Erosion of Confidence? The Antarctic Treaty System in the Twenty-first Century

Daniela Liggett

4. Invasive Species in the Arctic: Concerns, Regulations, and Governance

Kamrul Hossain

5. Managing Polar Policy through Public and Private Regulatory Standards: The Case of Tourism in the Antarctic

Michele Zebich-Knos

Part Two Critical Actors: Power Dynamics and Driving Forces in Polar Regions

6. From Energy to Knowledge? Building Domestic Knowledge-Based Sectors around Hydro Energy in Iceland and Greenland

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen and Klaus Georg Hansen

7. Arctic Melting Tests the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Asim Zia, Ilan Kelman and Michael H. Glantz

8. Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic

Arthur Mason

9. Connecting China through “Creative Diplomacy”: Greenland, Australia, and Climate Cooperation in Polar Regions

Damien Degeorges and Saleem H. Ali

10. Security in the Arctic: A Receding Wall

Rebecca Pincus

Part Three Community: Human Rights, Indigenous Politics, and Collective Learning

11. Using Human Rights to Improve Arctic Governance

Rebecca Bratspies

12. Cooperative Food Sharing in Sheshatshiu: Uncovering Scenarios to Support the Emergent Capacity of Northern Communities

Damián Castro, Glen Lesins, Rachel Hirsch and Kaz Higuchi

13. Crossing the Land of Indigenous People in the Arctic: Comparison of Russian and North American Experiences of Economic Growth and Human Rights in Energy and Infrastructure Projects

Natalia Yakovleva and Richard Grover

14. Emergent Cooperation, or, Checkmate by Overwhelming Collaboration: Linear Feet of Reports, Endless Meetings

Glenn W. Sheehan and Anne M. Jensen

15. From Northern Studies to Circumpolar Studies: In the Field and in the Ether

Kathleen Osgood and Steven B. Young

Epilogue

Rebecca Pincus

End Matter

Selected Resources

Contributors

Index