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Environmental Security in the Arctic

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Published date01 December 2011
AuthorOlav Schram Stokke
Date01 December 2011
DOI10.1177/002070201106600412
Subject MatterI. Issues
| International Journal | Autumn 2011 | 835 |
Can the rapid changes associated with a warmer Arctic give rise to
international conf‌licts and undermine the environmental security of the
region? What division of labour between Arctic institutions and broader
regimes can provide governance of regional economic activities that is
effective as well as legitimate? In this article, I argue that the conditions are
favourable for adaptive and peaceful management of the Arctic: a dynamic
governance framework is already in place and interstate jurisdictional rivalry
is modest. Globally applicable regimes like those based on the law of the
sea convention offer most of the support for Arctic environmental security
but regional institutions too can play important roles in strengthening
substantive regulations and enhancing their implementation, not least by
inf‌luencing other institutions.
My argument, that the Arctic governance framework is strong and
dynamic, contrasts with recent reports about an “ongoing race for natural
resources”1 in which the Arctic states are allegedly engaging in “unilateral
Olav Schram Stokke is research professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway.
1 “Resolution of 9 October 2008 on Arctic governance, item 13,” European parliament,
2008, doc. P6_TA(2008)0474, www.europarl.europa.eu.
Olav Schram Stokke
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