More than ever before the changing environmental and political landscape in the Arctic requires stability and foreseeability based on resilient common norms. The emerging legal orders in the Arctic cannot be legitimately created or effectively implemented unless all relevant actors are involved.
Akiho Shibata is a Professor of International Law and Director, Polar Cooperation Research Centre (PCRC) at Kobe University, Japan.
Leilei Zou is a Professor at Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
Nikolas P. Sellheim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Finland.
Marzia Scopelliti is a PhD candidate in Law at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
AKIHO SHIBATA, LEILEI ZOU, NIKOLAS SELLHEIM & MARZIA SCOPELLITI
Part I - Setting the Contexts
TIMO KOIVUROVA
AKI TONAMI
KEIJI IDE
EGILL THOR NIELSSON & BJARNI MAR MAGNUSSON
Part II - People(s) in the Arctic
DALEE SAMBO DOROUGH
MARZIA SCOPELLITI & NIKOLAS SELLHEIM
Part III - Arctic Marine Legal Order-making
JOJI MORISHITA
ERIK MOLENAAR
10. The Role of Transnational Knowledge Networks and Epistemic Communities in Arctic Shipping Governance
RASMUS GJEDSSØ BERTELSEN
11. Russia's Legislative Development Pertaining to the Northern Sea Route and Its Interaction with Russian-Sino Arctic Cooperation
LEILEI ZOU
Part IV - The Universality of Science and the Arctic Council
12. The Arctic Science Cooperation Agreement: A Perspective from Non-Arctic Actors
AKIHO SHIBATA
SEBASTIAN KNECHT & JENNIFER SPENCE
14. China in the Arctic Council: Existing Problems and Prospective Solutions
YUANYUAN REN
Appendix
Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, signed by the eight Arctic states on 11 May 2017, entered into force on 23 May 2018
Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean, signed by Canada, the People's Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, the United States of America and the European Union on 3 October 2018
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