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Emergency Management in Maritime Mass Rescue Operations: The Case of the High Arctic

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Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic

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Maritime activity in turbulent environments represents a challenge to the emergency preparedness system. In particular, the Arctic may be turbulent as to weather, especially in winter time. The consequences of accidents may be severe due to long distances, cold climate and limited local resources. In this chapter we look into large scale emergencies causing mass rescue from ships. We elaborate on the coordination of the broad range of search and rescue actors included in such an incident both in the air, at sea and ashore with several institutions and management levels included. We also describe the incorporation of host nation support from neighboring countries. We build upon the experiences from the accident of the cruise ship “Maxim Gorkiy” in the ice South-West of Svalbard. We illustrate the organizational structure of mass rescue operations and the coordinative roles at different levels. Finally, we discuss the implications for emergency management in extreme environments like the Arctic region.

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Acknowledgement

This chapter is written under the MARPART project “Maritime International Partnership in the High North” funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nordland County Administration and partner universities. We are also grateful for the kind support of the staff at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center—Northern Norway in Bodø.

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    Natalia Andreassen & Odd Jarl Borch

  2. Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia

    Svetlana Kuznetsova & Sergey Markov

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Andreassen, N., Borch, O.J., Kuznetsova, S., Markov, S. (2018). Emergency Management in Maritime Mass Rescue Operations: The Case of the High Arctic. In: Hildebrand, L., Brigham, L., Johansson, T. (eds) Sustainable Shipping in a Changing Arctic. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78425-0_20

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