The Challenge of arctic shipping: science, environmental assessment, and human values
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 1990
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series 2
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 282 p.)
ISBN:9780773562028
0773562028
0773507000
9780773507005

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