Full Description
The Yearbook of Polar Law covers a wide variety of law and policy topics relating to the Arctic and the Antarctic, and even the Third Pole. Many of the articles draw on presentations made at the annual Symposiums on Polar Law. The Editors-in-Chief are Gudmundur Alfredsson of the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri and the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Julia Jabour of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Timo Koivurova of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, and Akiho Shibata of the Polar Cooperation Research Centre, Kobe University.
Articles published in the Yearbook are peer reviewed, unless otherwise noted. The Yearbook will also carry book reviews and occasional news stories.
The topics covered in the Yearbook include:
- human rights issues, such as autonomy, self-government and self-determination, the rights of indigenous peoples to land and natural resources, cultural rights and cultural heritage, and indigenous traditional knowledge
- local, national and corporate governance issues
- environmental law, climate change, security and human rights implications of climate change, protected areas and species, and biodiversity
- regulatory and management agreements and arrangements for marine environments, marine mammals, fisheries conservation and other biological/mineral/oil resources
- jurisdictional and other issues re the exploration, exploitation and shipping of oil, gas and minerals
- law of the sea, the retreating sea ice, and continental shelf claims
- trade law, potential shipping lines through the northwest and northeast passages, maritime law and transportation law
- territorial claims and border disputes on both land and at sea
- peace and security, and dispute settlement
- the roles and actual involvement of international organizations in the polar regions, such as the Arctic Council, the Nordic Council, the International Whaling Commission, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the United Nations, and
- the activities of NGOs, think tanks and academic institutions
This Yearbook contains a selection of papers presented at the 15th Polar Law Symposium and other papers submitted, with an additional political commentary and book reviews.
Contents
Contents
Preface
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Section 1: The Arctic
Iceland's Territorial Sea Baselines, Volcanic Eruptions and Sea Level Rise
Bjarni Már Magnússon and Snjólaug Árnadóttir
The Rights of Nature and the Identity of Indigenous Peoples
Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Rethinking Insularity in the Canadian Constitutional System
How Indigenous Knowledge Shapes the Framework for Vulnerable Environmental Areas in the Arctic Archipelago
Sara Fusco
Danish State Interests as Foundation for Greenland Home Rule of 1979
A Study of the US Central Foreign Policy Files (1973-1979)
Federica Scarpa
Greenland Home Rule, 1979
Preserving and Reinforcing the Unity of the Realm through the Maintenance of Greenland's Economic Dependency
Federica Scarpa
Decolonising Arctic Archives: a Research Agenda
Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Inge Høst Seiding
As Ongoing War in Ukraine Precipitates a Crisis in Circumpolar Unity, a Full Restoration of the Arctic Council Is Needed - Now More Than Ever
Barry Scott Zellen
Future of Japan-China Cooperation in Arctic Affairs
Sakiko Hataya and Xiang Gao
The European Union and the Arctic: the Case of Fishery
Tiziana Melchiorre
How to Address Regulatory Gap for Transboundary Oil Pollution from Offshore Installations in the Arctic
Ilker Basaran and Elizabeth Nyman
Section 2: Antarctic
Values and Principles in the Antarctic Treaty and the Environmental Protocol: an Overview and Categorization
Yousra Makanse, Elena-Laura Alvarez Ortega, Erik Molenaar and Kees Bastmeijer
Money-Making in Antarctica and Related Challenges to the Antarctic Treaty System
Kees Bastmeijer, Julia Jabour, David Leary and Claire Wallace
The Resilience of Scientific Co-operation as a Foundational Principle of the Antarctic Treaty
David Leary and Julia Jabour
The Resilience of Antarctic Treaty System in the XXI Century: Procedural and Institutional Legitimacy
Patrizia Vigni and Yelena Yermakova
The World's Southernmost Continent in International Law: an Exclusive Legal Regime?
Melis Yüksel
Orchestrating Peace in the "Final Frontier": Critical Thinking as Arctic and Antarctic Activities Evolve
Edythe E. Weeks
Section 3: Book Reviews and Political Opinion
Giada Giacomini, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice A Critical Analysis of International Human Rights Law and Governance
Sara Fusco
Sheng, Edmund Li, Arctic Opportunities and Challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition
Dr. Mariia Kobzeva
Nikolas Sellheim and Dwayne Ryan Menezes (eds)., Non-state Actors in the Arctic Region
Dr Tiziana Melchiorre
India's Arctic Policy: Building a Partnership for Sustainable Development
Opinion by Kanagavalli Suryanarayanan
