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  title info:
    title: Asia and the Arctic
    sub title: Narratives, Perspectives and Policies
  name:
    name part: Sakhuja, Vijay.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Narula, Kapil.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 143 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic Council in 2013. The book also captures Arctic countries’ reactions to Asian approaches, and their expectations from these countries. The melting of the polar sea-ice induced by climate change has placed the Arctic region in the forefront of global scientific, economic, strategic and academic interest. The discourse involves a number of issues such as claims of the littoral countries to the continental shelves of the region, the management and exploitation of its living and non-living resources, the rights and interests of indigenous communities, and the prospects of new ice-free shipping routes. The contemporary discourse also suggests that the Arctic region presents challenges and offers opportunities for the international community. These issues have given rise to new geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geostrategic dynamics amongst the Arctic littorals, and led to the growing interest of non-Arctic states in the affairs of the Arctic. It is evident that the Asian countries have a variety of interests in the Arctic, and the grant of Permanent Observer status to these countries is an acknowledgement of their capabilities. These countries are keen to explore opportunities in the Arctic, and have begun to formulate appropriate long-term national strategies. The preliminary approach of the Asian Observer countries has rightly been to graduate from ‘involvement’ to ‘engagement’ in the Arctic, which seems to have generated significant interest amongst analysts. This book helps to understand the approaches of various Arctic and non-Arctic stakeholders, in light of the evolving dynamics in the region.
  table of contents: Part 1. Evolving Dynamics in the Arctic -- Part 2. Asian Country Perspectives -- Part 3. Arctic Countries’ Perspectives on Asian Approaches. .
  note: edited by Vijay Sakhuja, Kapil Narula.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  classification: GB3-5030
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 550
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Geology
  identifier: 9789811020599
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2059-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 160926
    record change date: 20160926154319.0
    record identifier: 978-981-10-2059-9