Abstract
Melting Arctic sea ice, shore ice, and permafrost are changing costs and benefits to transport routes between Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and more generally, for maritime economic activity in the Arctic. We investigate the potential for development of Arctic ports from a logistics (demand) and an infrastructural (supply) point of view that directly incorporates local concerns. This approach broadens the scope of the discussion from existing analyses that focus primarily on the ways in which global forces, exerted through resource extraction or trans-polar shipping, impact the Arctic.
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Notes
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See http://www.marineinsight.com/ports/what-are-deep-water-ports/, last call: 18 Dec 2016 as well as Dasgupta (2016).
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See http://www.marineinsight.com/types-of-ships/the-ultimate-guide-to-ship-sizes/, last call: 18 Dec 2016.
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See also: http://www.iisd.org/.
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See also http://www.transportkommissionen.gl/.
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See also http://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/hottopics/polar/pages/default.aspx, last call 11 Dec 2016.
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Pahl, J., Kaiser, B.A. (2018). Arctic Port Development. In: Vestergaard, N., Kaiser, B., Fernandez, L., Nymand Larsen, J. (eds) Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67365-3_8
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