| The Yearbook of Polar Law Volume 10, 2018 Contributor(s): Cambou, Dorothée, Klein, Joëlle |
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ISBN: 9004396136 ISBN-13: 9789004396135 Publisher: Brill Nijhoff OUR PRICE: $354.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Law | Environmental - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice |
| Dewey: 349.9 |
| Series: Yearbook of Polar Law |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.76 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Special Editors: Doroth e Cambou (Postdoctoral Researcher, Helsinki University) and Jo lle Klein (Junior Researcher, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland) The Yearbook of Polar Law is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Akureyri in Iceland and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland and covers a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and the Antarctic. These include: - human rights issues, such as autonomy and self-government vs. self-determination, the rights of indigenous peoples to land and natural resources and cultural rights and cultural heritage, indigenous traditional knowledge, - local, national, regional and international governance issues, - environmental law, climate change, security and environment implications of climate change, protected areas and species, - regulatory, governance and management agreements and arrangements for marine environments, marine mammals, fisheries conservation and other biological/mineral/oil resources, - law of the sea, the retreating sea ice, continental shelf claims, - territorial claims and border disputes on both land and at sea, - peace and security, dispute settlement, - jurisdictional and other issues with regard to the exploration, exploitation and shipping of oil, gas and minerals, bio prospecting, - trade law, potential shipping lines through the northwest and northeast passages, maritime law and transportation law, and - the roles and actual involvement of international organisations in the Polar Regions, such as the Arctic Council, the Antarctic Treaty System, the European Union, the International Whaling Commission, the Nordic Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the United Nations, as well as NGOs. The papers in this volume are based on presentations at the 10th Polar Law Symposium, held in Rovaniemi in November 2017. |