Who Owns the Arctic? : Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North Understanding Sovereignty and International Law in the North Product Form:Paperback / softback Prize(s): Short-listed Roderick Haig-Brown Regional

Prize(s): Short-listed Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize - BC Book Prizes (2020)

When it was first published more than 20 years ago

for reading their history alongside his own

making native plants both a practical and ecological choice

BISAC Subject(s):: SOC022000-SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Who Owns the Arctic? : Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North Understanding Sovereignty and International Law in the North Product Form:Paperback / softback Prize(s): Short-listed Roderick Haig-Brown RegionalDescription A topical and informed primer for the most urgent yet least understood geopolitical issue of our time; Arctic sovereignty. Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? Which territorial claims will prevail those of the U. S., Russia, Canada or the Nordic nations and why? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we protect the fragile Arctic environment while