Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic
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- Under 100
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 474
About this book
Lawrence Hildebrand pulls together contributors from across maritime policy, environmental science, and engineering for this edited volume on Arctic shipping. As sea ice retreats, the Northern Sea Route and the Northwest Passage are becoming usable in ways they weren't a generation ago, and the book asks what responsible shipping in those waters would actually look like.
The chapters cover the new traffic patterns, the regulatory gaps between coastal nations, the risk to indigenous communities, the question of what counts as adequate emergency response in remote ice-edge waters.
This is an academic book in tone. The contributors are mostly researchers and policy analysts. The writing is clear but assumes some background.
For readers in maritime policy, climate adaptation work, or Arctic studies, the volume is a useful overview of current debates. For general readers curious about the topic, the introduction and conclusion give a good summary even if the technical chapters get heavy.
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Book facts
- Author
- Lawrence P. Hildebrand
- First published
- 2018
- Reading time
- About 14 hours
- Pages
- 474
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Climate Fiction
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online