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The Challenge of arctic shipping science, environmental assessment, and human values

Lamson, Cynthia.

The Challenge of arctic shipping science, environmental assessment, and human values

Lamson, Cynthia.

9780773562028

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.

1 online resource (xii, 282 p.) : ill., maps.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series, 2

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 2,

Introduction / Gordon Beanlands -- Part one: Science -- In pursuit of knowledge: Arctic shipping and marine science / Cynthia Lamson -- The physical environment / Robert A. Lake -- Marine mannals and ice-breakers / Brian D. Smiley -- Seabirds and environmental assessment / Richard G.B. Brown -- Part two: Differing assessments -- Industry, shipping proposals, and science / Robert L. Dryden -- Inuit concerns and environmental assessment / Peter Jull -- Coming of age: territorial review / John Donihee and Heather Myers -- The Federal EARP experience / David W.I. Marshall -- Part three: The big picture -- Hydrocarbon transport and risk assessment / Ray Lemberg -- Science policy and ocean management / Douglas M. Johnston -- On the road to Kingdom Come / David L. VanderZwaag.

This survey of the problems and challenges of shipping in the Arctic Ocean includes polar oceanography, marine mammals and ice-breakers, seabirds, petroleum exploration, oil spills, environmental impact of industrial activities, Inuit land claims and the possibility of native self-government.

Shipping -- Environmental aspects -- Arctic Ocean.

Environmental impact analysis -- Arctic Ocean.

Marine ecology -- Arctic Ocean.

Environnement -- Études d'impact -- Arctique, Océan.

Transports maritimes -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Arctique, Océan.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.

Electronic books.

Lamson, Cynthia.

VanderZwaag, David L.

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