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The Natural and Societal Challenges of the Northern Sea Route

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INSROP Sub-programme II: ‘Environmental Factors’ has aimed at developing a foundation or framework for environmental assessments. The results — the Dynamic Environmental Atlas on the occurrence of vulnerable natural resources, an integrated information system, and tailored methods for impact analyses, the NSR Environmental Assessment & Planning System — provide a basis for environmental considerations relevant to NSR activities in the short term, and for strategic long?term assessments of future developments. The concept has been accepted among scientific communities in Russia and Norway and has proven to be in line with Russian regulations on Preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment. In this chapter, we outline some of the main findings as well as basic principles and procedures applied to the concept, in the perspective of national and international initiatives on Arctic environmental concerns.

The authors express their gratitude to the sponsors of INSROP as well as the three principle partners: The Ship & Oceans Foundation (Japan), the Central Marine Design and Research Institute (Russia) and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway), for the opportunity to participate in the challenging work of INSROP. Our special thanks go to the secretariat at the FNI, and to Dr. Willy Østreng in particular, for his inexhaustible optimism and inspiring leadership. As the authors responsible for this chapter, it is our overall intention that our contribution is in line with Dr. Østreng’s expectations to this work: any discrepancies are, of course, the authors’ own responsibility.

We wish to mention Dr. Rasmus Hansson, the founder of the Sub-programme II, in particular: his contribution made the realisation of the INSROP EIA a rewarding task. We would also like to express our gratitude to Odd Willy Brude, who has been responsible for preparing the DEA maps in this chapter. The Norwegian Polar Institute and its helpful staff have provided a highly stimulating environment for the work of INSROP. The close co-operation with our Russian co-partners and Norwegian colleagues, especially Jørn Thomassen (NINA), Vidar Bakken (NP), Øystein Wiig (Dept. of Zool., UiO), Lars-Henrik Larsen (Akvaplan-niva), Winnfried Dallmann (NP) and Kjell Isaksen (NP), is gratefully acknowledged Thanks to the Russian contributors to the DEA, dedicated staff from AARI, RINCAN, ZIN RAS, All-Union Res. Inst. for Nature Reserves, the realisation of the DEA was possible; our special thanks to Maria Gavrilo (AARI), Vladimir Progrebov (AARI), Vladimir Khlebovich (ZIN RAS), Sergey Zubarev (RINCAN), Stanislav Belikov (All Russian Research Institute for Nature Conservation) and Boris Sirenko (ZIN RAS).

We also wish to thank experts from the following scientific and other Russian institutions for their contribution to the ESSN work: Central Marine Design and Research Institute, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, Soyuzmomiiproject, the Northern and Murmansk shipping companies, the Murmansk and Far East rescue centres, the Head Department of Gosmorspassluzhba (State Marine Pollution Control and Salvage Administration of Russia — MPSCA).

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