ENERGY, ETHICS AND SECURITY

• Main Author: Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования Северо-Восточный федеральный университет им. М.К. Аммосова 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Climate change; Human health
• Online Access: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/energy-ethics-and-security; http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/16910405.png

The issues of security in the Arctic in different dimensions are analyzed in the article. The author distinguishes three vital components of security in the Arctic: energy, environment and human. Natural resources and their governance play an important role in Arctic geopolitics of the early-21st century, as well as the fact that energy (security) and resource geopolitics has a long history in shaping and impacting the Arctic. Access to energy sources has become increasingly strategically important, and energy security has appeared again in re-invented forms, becoming part of the larger issues of security in the North, ranging from sovereignty (including boundaries, defense, transport/ shipping, economy) to environmental issues (ecosystems, toxins, climate change, human health). Underlying drivers include the significant geopolitical, geoeconomic and environmental changes, and changes in problem definition of security, that are happening at local, national, regional and global scales.