Call number:
AWI P5-92-0453
Description / Table of Contents:
The first book in Belhaven's new Polar Research Series, published in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, offers a multidisciplinary examination of the historical record and the current developments surrounding Soviet activities and policies in their vast maritime arctic region. The book presents a range of issues in such diverse fields as history, environment, philosophy, law, oceanography, geology, marine transportation and strategic studies. Captain Brigham has brought together a unique group of experts, historians, geographers, polar scientists, legal specialists and environmentalists from North America, Europe and the USSR to provide a broad and up-to-date picture of this vast polar marine region. The book shows how huge resources and vital transport arteries of the polar north will become of increasing importance not only to the new Soviet Union but also to the entire northern hemisphere. The book is the first available in the West to present an integrated and authoritative view of the "last frontier" of the Soviet Union.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XV, 336 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
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24 cm
ISBN:
1852931698
Series Statement:
Polar Research Series [1]
Note:
Contents: List of figures. - List of tables. - Biographies of the Editor and Contributors. - List of acronyms. - Foreword / James M. Broadus. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction / Lawson W. Brigham. - PART I EXPLORATION: PAST AND PRESENT. - 2. The Arctic Ocean in Russian history to 1945 / William Barr. - 3. The 1987 expedition of the icebreaker Sibir to the North Pole / Ivan Frolov. - PART II MAN AND THE NATURAL SETTING. - 4. Sea ice distribution in the Soviet Arctic / Donald Barnett. - 5 Environmental protection in the Soviet Arctic seas / Alexei Y. Roginko. - 6. The Arctic in the Russian identity / Franklyn Griffiths, Canada. - 7. Oil and gas resources in the offshore Soviet Arctic / James W. Clarke. - PART III. CHALLENGES OF MARINE AND RIVER TRANSPORT. - 8. Technical developments and the future of Soviet Arctic marine transportation / Lawson W. Brigham. - 9. Management of the Northern Sea Route: stages and problems of development / Alexander I. Arikaynen. - 10 Northern Sea Route operations in the 1986-7 Season / Terence Armstrong. - 11. Technical aspects of ice navigation and port construction in the Soviet Arctic / Gordon G. Watson. - 12 The Siberian rivers as a transport system / Robert N. North. - PART IV LEGAL AND GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES. - 13. The geostrategic conditions of deterrence in the Barents Sea / Willy Østreng. - 14. The legal regime of Soviet Arctic marine areas / William E. Butler. - 15. Canada-USSR Arctic Science Exchange Programme: An historical perspective of arctic cooperation / Walter Slipchenko. - 16. International cooperation in the Arctic: Soviet attitudes and actions / Oran R. Young and Gail Osherenko. - 17. A Comparison of Soviet Arctic and Antarctic policies / Christopher C. Joyner. - PART V APPENDICES. - Appendix I Excerpt on international arctic affairs/foreign policy taken from the speech in Murmansk by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 1 October 1987. - Appendix II Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to improve the protection of nature in the regions of the far north and in the sea areas adjacent to the northern coastline of the USSR. - Appendix III Agreement between the government of Canada and the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on cooperation in the Arctic and the North. - Appendix IV USSR participation in selected international arrangements. - Index.
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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