Commercial Arctic shipping through the Northeast Passage: routes, resources, governance, technology, and infrastructure

• Published in: Polar Geography
• Main Authors: Buixadé Farré, A., Stephenson, S., Chen, L., Czub, M., Dai, Y., Demchev, D., Efimov, Y., Graczyk, P., Grythe, H., Keil, K., Kivekäs, N., Kumar, N., Liu, N., Matelenok, I., Myksvoll, M., O'Leary, D., Olsen, J., Pavithran A P, S., Petersen, E., Raspotnik, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2014
• Subjects: Andreas; Arctic; Pacific; Petersen; Stephenson; Suo; Arctic Council; Northeast Passage; Northern Sea Route; Polar Geography; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/112024; https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2014.965769

The Russian and Norwegian Arctic are gaining notoriety as an alternative maritime route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and as sources of natural resources. The renewed interest in the Northeast Passage or the Northern Sea Route is fueled by a recession of Arctic sea ice coupled with the...