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Brooklyn Journal of International Law
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Artic Ocean; Artic Circle; Ilulisat Declaration; Excuslive Economic Zone (EEZ); International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea; Intertnational Court of Justice (ICJ); Artic Council; Persistent organic pollutants; North Pole; Artic environmental protection strategy; Commission on the limits of continental shelf (CLCS); continental shelf; Antarctic treaty system; International maritime organization's polar code
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An Arctic Peril: The Pitfalls And Potential Of A Fragmentary Polar Law, Erik Vande Stouwe
An Arctic Peril: The Pitfalls And Potential Of A Fragmentary Polar Law, Erik Vande Stouwe
Brooklyn Journal of International Law
As Arctic ice coverage recedes in the face of rising global temperatures, the Arctic Ocean is rapidly becoming a promising frontier over which coastal nations vie. Even as indigenous peoples reckon with ecological catastrophe, the promise of ice-free summers is drawing global shipping giants to invest in sea routes over the northern coasts of Canada and Russia. Hydrocarbon extraction and deep-sea mining interests are clamoring to develop newly accessible regions of the high north, and fishing trawlers are chasing increasingly elusive fisheries further north with the warming Arctic waters. Against this backdrop, tourists on diesel-hungry cruise ships are rushing to …