Abstract
At present, the Arctic attracts economic attention for three main reasons: its abundance of strategically important and exploitable resources, its rapidly dwindling sea ice, and its shortcut location between three of the most industrialized and developed continents of the world. Arctic waters are getting bluer, more accessible, exploitable and increasingly attractive for economic utilisation. This may in due time open up a new chapter in Arctic shipping, which is the topic of this book.
This chapter has been written by Willy Østreng, Ocean Futures.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Østreng, W. et al. (2013). Introduction: An operational view of Arctic Waters. In: Shipping in Arctic Waters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-16789-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-16790-4
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)