Effects of Arctic commercial shipping on environments and communities: context, governance, priorities

Increasing shipping traffic in the Arctic Ocean creates an emerging need to understand theconsequences of maritime operations on the Arctic environment and coastal Indigenous and nonIndigenous communities, as well as potential governance responses. To address this need, weexamine recent shipping trends and assess their impact on Arctic environments and communities.Our arguments are novel, and are built around contemporary empirical investigations and published scientific studies, reports, and government documents. The paper concludes that theenvironmental and community impacts vary across the Arctic and that greater international coordination is needed to learn from experience, to share assets and capacities, and to guideresponsible and sustainable development of Arctic shipping. Given the possibility for opening ofthe Transpolar Sea Route within the coming decades, further proactive steps, such as developing agovernance framework, could help Arctic shipping avoid rather than attempt to correct problems.ShippingArctic routesIndigenous peoplesLocal communitiesSocial and environmental concernsRisks

Til publikasjon: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103731, https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3064183, https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3154301 | Publiseringsår: 2023 | Tidsskrift: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment