The Yearbook of Polar Law Volume 15, 2023

Buch | Hardcover

498 Seiten

2024
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-54145-0 (ISBN)

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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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Yearbook of Polar Law ; 15
Mitarbeit	Chef-Herausgeber: Gudmundur Alfredsson, Timo Koivurova, Akiho Shibata
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-54145-4 / 9004541454
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54145-0 / 9789004541450
Zustand	Neuware