The Challenge of Arctic shipping : science, environmental assessment, and human values /
This survey of the problems and challenges of shipping in the Arctic Ocean includes polar oceanography, marine mammals and ice-breakers, seabirds, petroleum exploration, oil spills, environmental impact of industrial activities, Inuit land claims and the possibility of native self-government.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1990.
Montreal ; Buffalo : [1990] |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gordon Beanlands
- Part one: Science
- In pursuit of knowledge: Arctic shipping and marine science / Cynthia Lamson
- The physical environment / Robert A. Lake
- Marine mannals and ice-breakers / Brian D. Smiley
- Seabirds and environmental assessment / Richard G.B. Brown
- Part two: Differing assessments
- Industry, shipping proposals, and science / Robert L. Dryden
- Inuit concerns and environmental assessment / Peter Jull
- Coming of age: territorial review / John Donihee and Heather Myers
- The Federal EARP experience / David W.I. Marshall
- Part three: The big picture
- Hydrocarbon transport and risk assessment / Ray Lemberg
- Science policy and ocean management / Douglas M. Johnston
- On the road to Kingdom Come / David L. VanderZwaag.