Governance of Arctic Shipping

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Aldo Chircop, Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta, Ronald Pelot

   Pages 1-12Open Access

3. Rethinking Maritime Risks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. An Exploratory Application of the International Risk Governance Council’s Risk Governance Framework to Shipping Risks in the Canadian Arctic

      • Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot

      Pages 15-41Open Access

   3. Historical Maritime Search and Rescue Incident Data Analysis

      • Mark A. Stoddard, Ronald Pelot

      Pages 43-62Open Access

   4. Search and Rescue at Sea: Do New Challenges Require New Rules?

      • Francesco Munari

      Pages 63-81Open Access

   5. Unmanned Remotely Operated Search and Rescue Ships in the Canadian Arctic: Exploring the Opportunities, Risk Dimensions and Governance Implications

      • Jinho Yoo, Floris Goerlandt, Aldo Chircop

      Pages 83-103Open Access

   6. Ambient Noise in the Canadian Arctic

      • Emmanuelle Cook, David Barclay, Clark Richards

      Pages 105-133Open Access

4. The Human Dimension

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Inuit Nunangat and the Northwest Passage: An Exploration of Inuit and Arctic Shipping Conceptualizations of and Relationships with Arctic Marine Spaces in Canada

      • Leah Beveridge

      Pages 137-149Open Access

   3. Knowledge and Data: An Exploration of the Use of Inuit Knowledge in Decision Support Systems in Marine Management

      • Claudio Aporta, Breanna Bishop, Olivia Choi, Weishan Wang

      Pages 151-169Open Access

   4. Seafarers and Arctic Cruise Shipping: Protecting Those Who Work While Others Explore and Sightsee

      • Joseph Anthony Loot

      Pages 171-190Open Access

   5. Mapping the Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Challenges Faced by Canadian Seafarers

      • Desai Shan

      Pages 191-205Open Access

   6. Insights from the History of Fishing Safety: Preparing for Increased Fisheries and Shipping in the Canadian Arctic

      • Barbara Neis, Joel Finnis, Ronald Pelot, James Shewmake

      Pages 207-226Open Access

5. Regulating Shipping and Ocean Use

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. The IMO Regulatory Framework for Arctic Shipping: Risk Perspectives and Goal-Based Pathways

      • Anish Arvind Hebbar, Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs, Maximo Q. Mejia, Heike Deggim, Sascha Pristrom

      Pages 229-247Open Access

   3. The Regulation of Ship Emissions in Canadian Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Waters: Is There a Need for Consistency and Equity?

      • Aldo Chircop

      Pages 249-264Open Access

   4. The Regulation of Heavy Fuel Oil in Arctic Shipping: Interests, Measures, and Impacts

      • Jiayu Bai, Aldo Chircop

      Pages 265-283Open Access

   5. A Change in the Ice Regime: Polar Code Implementation in Canada

      • Drummond Fraser

      Pages 285-300Open Access

   6. Integrated Ocean and Coastal Zone Management in France: Some Perspectives

      • Annie Cudennec

      Pages 301-311Open Access

This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF).  The book focuses on Arctic shipping and investigates how ocean change and anthropogenic impacts affect our understanding of risk, policy, management and regulation for safe navigation, environment protection, conflict management between ocean uses, and protection of Indigenous peoples’ interests. A rapidly changing Arctic as a result of climate change and ice loss is rendering the North more accessible, providing new opportunities while producing impacts on the Arctic. The book explores ideas for enhanced governance of Arctic shipping through risk-based planning, marine spatial planning and scaling up shipping standards for safety, environment protection and public health. 

• Arctic cruise shipping
• Arctic fisher safety
• Climate change impacts in the Arctic region
• Governance of the Arctic and Northwest Atlantic
• Marine spatial planning
• Northwest Atlantic and Canadian Eastern Arctic Gateway
• Safe navigation and environment protection
• Sea ice in the Arctic
• Search and Rescue (SAR)
• Open Access
• polar geography
• climate change impacts
• water policy

• Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  Aldo Chircop

• Department of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot

• Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

  Claudio Aporta

Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier I), based at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Chircop chairs the International Working Group on Polar Shipping of the Comité Maritime International. He has published extensively on the international law of the sea, Canadian and international maritime law and Arctic shipping.

Floris Goerlandt, D.Sc. (Tech) holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Risk Management and Resource Optimization for Marine Industries at Dalhousie University. With a background in marine technology, maritime sciences, and maritime risk and safety management, his research focuses on maritime risk governance, organizational processes for accident prevention, and methods and tools for emergency preparedness and response.

Claudio Aporta is a cultural anthropologist who has studied and documented Inuit environmental and geographic knowledge for 20 years across the totality of the Canadian Arctic. He is Associate Professor at the Marine Affairs Program, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Ronald Pelot has been a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University, Canada, since 1994.  Over the past two decades, he and his team have developed new software tools and analysis methods applied to maritime traffic safety (accidents), coastal zone security, and marine spills. Research methods encompass spatial risk analysis, vessel traffic modelling, data processing and pattern analysis, location models for response resource allocation, and safety analyses. Dr. Pelot has published over 50 journal articles and produced more than 100 technical reports.