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Northern Sea Route Cargo Flows and Infrastructure- Present State And
Northern Sea Route Cargo Flows and Infrastructure – Present State and Future Potential By Claes Lykke Ragner FNI Report 13/2000 FRIDTJOF NANSENS INSTITUTT THE FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE Tittel/Title Sider/Pages Northern Sea Route Cargo Flows and Infrastructure – Present 124 State and Future Potential Publikasjonstype/Publication Type Nummer/Number FNI Report 13/2000 Forfatter(e)/Author(s) ISBN Claes Lykke Ragner 82-7613-400-9 Program/Programme ISSN 0801-2431 Prosjekt/Project Sammendrag/Abstract The report assesses the Northern Sea Route’s commercial potential and economic importance, both as a transit route between Europe and Asia, and as an export route for oil, gas and other natural resources in the Russian Arctic. First, it conducts a survey of past and present Northern Sea Route (NSR) cargo flows. Then follow discussions of the route’s commercial potential as a transit route, as well as of its economic importance and relevance for each of the Russian Arctic regions. These discussions are summarized by estimates of what types and volumes of NSR cargoes that can realistically be expected in the period 2000-2015. This is then followed by a survey of the status quo of the NSR infrastructure (above all the ice-breakers, ice-class cargo vessels and ports), with estimates of its future capacity. Based on the estimated future NSR cargo potential, future NSR infrastructure requirements are calculated and compared with the estimated capacity in order to identify the main, future infrastructure bottlenecks for NSR operations. The information presented in the report is mainly compiled from data and research results that were published through the International Northern Sea Route Programme (INSROP) 1993-99, but considerable updates have been made using recent information, statistics and analyses from various sources. -
Taltheilei Houses, Lithics, and Mobility
University of Calgary PRISM: University of Calgary's Digital Repository Graduate Studies The Vault: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2012-09-06 Taltheilei houses, lithics, and mobility Pickering, Sean Joseph Pickering, S. J. (2012). Taltheilei houses, lithics, and mobility (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27975 http://hdl.handle.net/11023/177 master thesis University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Taltheilei Houses, Lithics, and Mobility by Sean J. Pickering A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY CALGARY, ALBERTA SEPTEMBER, 2012 © Sean J. Pickering 2012 Abstract The precontact subsistence-settlement strategy of Taltheilei tradition groups has been interpreted by past researchers as representing a high residential mobility forager system characterized by ephemeral warm season use of the Barrenlands environment, while hunting barrenground caribou. However, the excavation of four semi-subterranean house pits at the Ikirahak site (JjKs-7), in the Southern Kivalliq District of Nunavut, has challenged these assumptions. An analysis of the domestic architecture, as well as the morphological and spatial attributes of the excavated lithic artifacts, has shown that some Taltheilei groups inhabited the Barrenlands environment during the cold season for extended periods of time likely subsisting on stored resources. -
Sanderson Et Al., the Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild
Articles The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild ERICW. SANDERSON,MALANDING JAITEH, MARC A. LEVY,KENT H. REDFORD, ANTOINETTEV. WANNEBO,AND GILLIANWOOLMER n Genesis,God blesses humanbeings and bids us to take dominion over the fish in the sea,the birdsin the air, THE HUMANFOOTPRINT IS A GLOBAL and other We are entreatedto be fruitful every living thing. MAPOF HUMANINFLUENCE ON THE and multiply,to fill the earth,and subdueit (Gen. 1:28).The bad news, and the good news, is that we have almost suc- LANDSURFACE, WHICH SUGGESTSTHAT ceeded. Thereis little debatein scientificcircles about the impor- HUMANBEINGS ARE STEWARDS OF tance of human influenceon ecosystems.According to sci- WE LIKEIT OR NOT entists'reports, we appropriateover 40%of the net primary NATURE,WHETHER productivity(the greenmaterial) produced on Eartheach year (Vitouseket al. 1986,Rojstaczer et al.2001). We consume 35% thislack of appreciationmay be dueto scientists'propensity of the productivityof the oceanicshelf (Pauly and Christensen to expressthemselves in termslike "appropriation of net pri- 1995), and we use 60% of freshwaterrun-off (Postel et al. maryproductivity" or "exponentialpopulation growth," ab- 1996). The unprecedentedescalation in both human popu- stractionsthat require some training to understand.It may lation and consumption in the 20th centuryhas resultedin be dueto historicalassumptions about and habits inherited environmentalcrises never before encountered in the history fromtimes when human beings, as a group,had dramatically of humankindand the world (McNeill2000). E. O. Wilson less influenceon the biosphere.Now the individualdeci- (2002) claims it would now take four Earthsto meet the consumptiondemands of the currenthuman population,if Eric Sanderson(e-mail: [email protected])is associatedirector, and every human consumed at the level of the averageUS in- W. -
Russia's Arctic Cities
? chapter one Russia’s Arctic Cities Recent Evolution and Drivers of Change Colin Reisser Siberia and the Far North fi gure heavily in Russia’s social, political, and economic development during the last fi ve centuries. From the beginnings of Russia’s expansion into Siberia in the sixteenth century through the present, the vast expanses of land to the north repre- sented a strategic and economic reserve to rulers and citizens alike. While these reaches of Russia have always loomed large in the na- tional consciousness, their remoteness, harsh climate, and inaccessi- bility posed huge obstacles to eff ectively settling and exploiting them. The advent of new technologies and ideologies brought new waves of settlement and development to the region over time, and cities sprouted in the Russian Arctic on a scale unprecedented for a region of such remote geography and harsh climate. Unlike in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of other countries, the Russian Far North is highly urbanized, containing 72 percent of the circumpolar Arctic population (Rasmussen 2011). While the largest cities in the far northern reaches of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland have maximum populations in the range of 10,000, Russia has multi- ple cities with more than 100,000 citizens. Despite the growing public focus on the Arctic, the large urban centers of the Russian Far North have rarely been a topic for discussion or analysis. The urbanization of the Russian Far North spans three distinct “waves” of settlement, from the early imperial exploration, expansion of forced labor under Stalin, and fi nally to the later Soviet development 2 | Colin Reisser of energy and mining outposts. -
THE Great CHALLENGE of the ARCTIC
THE great CHALLENGE OF THE ARCTIC National Roadmap for the Arctic Design & production : Press and Communication Directorate/MAEDI Photos : IPEV, Ponant & le Cercle Polaire. © June 2016. CONTENTS Foreword 4 Introduction: the great challenge of the Arctic 9 1. Scientific research and cooperation 15 2. Economic opportunities and cooperation 23 3. Defence and security issues 31 4. Protecting the Arctic marine environment 37 5. France’s presence in international forums on the Arctic 43 6. The European Union and the Arctic region 49 7. National interests and the common interest in the Arctic region 55 Conclusion: France, an Arctic player 60 FOREWORD The Arctic is both far from France and near to it. Although it lies at the far reaches of the temperate zone where we live, it extends over an area situated between 2500km and 5000km from the French coast, which, for a maritime power like France, with the second-largest maritime area in the world, remains relatively close. From France, the Arctic Ocean therefore seems like a natural extension of the North Atlantic, which laps at the western shores of our country. The Arctic is also far due to its environment, which is hard to access and governed by extreme weather conditions; and yet close, for France has established itself over the last three centuries as a polar nation, with a strong tradition of expeditions and exploration, and permanent research bases at the poles. The names Jules Dumont d’Urville, Jean- Baptiste Charcot and Paul-Emile Victor are part of France’s cultural heritage and collective imagination, inspiring new generations of explorers. -
The Ecology of Large Herbivores Native to the Coastal Lowlands of the Fynbos Biome in the Western Cape, South Africa
The ecology of large herbivores native to the coastal lowlands of the Fynbos Biome in the Western Cape, South Africa by Frans Gustav Theodor Radloff Dissertation presented for the degree of Doctor of Science (Botany) at Stellenbosh University Promoter: Prof. L. Mucina Co-Promoter: Prof. W. J. Bond December 2008 DECLARATION By submitting this dissertation electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the owner of the copyright thereof (unless to the extent explicitly otherwise stated) and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification. Date: 24 November 2008 Copyright © 2008 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved ii ABSTRACT The south-western Cape is a unique region of southern Africa with regards to generally low soil nutrient status, winter rainfall and unusually species-rich temperate vegetation. This region supported a diverse large herbivore (> 20 kg) assemblage at the time of permanent European settlement (1652). The lowlands to the west and east of the Kogelberg supported populations of African elephant, black rhino, hippopotamus, eland, Cape mountain and plain zebra, ostrich, red hartebeest, and grey rhebuck. The eastern lowlands also supported three additional ruminant grazer species - the African buffalo, bontebok, and blue antelope. The fate of these herbivores changed rapidly after European settlement. Today the few remaining species are restricted to a few reserves scattered across the lowlands. This is, however, changing with a rapid growth in the wildlife industry that is accompanied by the reintroduction of wild animals into endangered and fragmented lowland areas. -
Arctic Tundra Fires: Natural Variability and Responses to Climate Change
REVIEWS REVIEWS REVIEWS Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and 369 responses to climate change Feng Sheng Hu1,2,3*, Philip E Higuera4, Paul Duffy5, Melissa L Chipman3, Adrian V Rocha6, Adam M Young7, Ryan Kelly8,9, and Michael C Dietze9 Anthropogenic climate change may result in novel disturbances to Arctic tundra ecosystems. Understanding the natural variability of tundra-fire regimes and their linkages to climate is essential in evaluating whether tundra burning has increased in recent years. Historical observations and charcoal records from lake sediments reveal a wide range of fire regimes in Arctic tundra, with fire-return intervals varying from decades to millennia. Analysis of historical data shows strong climate–fire relationships, with threshold effects of summer temperature and pre- cipitation. Projections based on 21st-century climate scenarios suggest that annual area burned will approxi- mately double in Alaskan tundra by the end of the century. Fires can release ancient carbon from tundra ecosys- tems and catalyze other biogeochemical and biophysical changes, with local to global consequences. Given the increased likelihood of tundra burning in coming decades, land managers and policy makers need to consider the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of fire in the Far North. Front Ecol Environ 2015; 13(7): 369–377, doi:10.1890/150063 fter surveying scientists working in the Far North for circumpolar Arctic tundra has burned over the past A tundra-fire observations and examining Canadian decade (Figure 1a). Thus, the tundra biome is historically Government fire records, pioneer Arctic ecologist Ross characterized by a general lack of burning, reflecting its Wein concluded that “tundra fires occurred infrequently, location in one of the coldest environments on Earth and were invariably small in areal extent.. -
Inuit Education in the Far North of Canada
Heather E. McGregor. Inuit Education and Schools in the Eastern Arctic. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010. 220 pp. $85.00, cloth, ISBN 978-0-7748-1744-8. Reviewed by Jon Reyhner Published on H-Education (August, 2010) Commissioned by Jonathan Anuik (University of Alberta) Heather McGregor’s Inuit Education and Teachers recruited from southern Canada to Schools in the Eastern Arctic examines the history staff village schools lacked training in cross-cul‐ of Inuit education in the Far North of Canada. She tural education and usually did not stay long finds that colonization only occurred there in enough to learn much about the Inuit. Besides the earnest after World War II and she divides the Far language gap these teachers faced, there was a North’s history of education into the pre-1945 tra‐ fundamental contradiction between their values ditional, 1945-70 colonial, 1970-82 territorial, and and those expressed in the teaching materials 1982-99 local periods. Throughout the book the they used, and Inuit values. McGregor quotes author demonstrates a real effort to complement Mary A. Van Meenen’s 1994 doctoral dissertation and contrast the reports of government bureau‐ stating, “The core of the problem was that neither cracies and outside researchers with the voice of the federal nor territorial governments under‐ the Inuit. stood the peoples they were trying to educate” (p. A century ago, missionaries entered the Arctic 87). The resulting culturally assimilationist educa‐ and often stayed long enough to learn the Inuit tion led to a loss of Inuit cultural identity and languages. Around 1900 missionaries developed a “widespread … spousal abuse, alcoholism, and syllabary for Inuktitut and reading and writing it suicide” (p. -
Asia-Pacific's Ecological Footprint
ASIA-PACIFIC 2005 The Ecological Footprint and Natural Wealth ountries in Asia and the Pacific have made a firm nor extended worldwide without causing additional consumed like an average American or European?” We commitment to sustainable development. We want life-threatening damage to the global environment have only one planet, yet all people want, and have the Ca better quality of life for all, while safeguarding the and increasing social inequity. right to, fulfilling lives. The challenge for high income Earth’s capacity to support life in all its diversity and This report is a call for action, not just for the policy countries is to radically reduce footprint while maintaining respecting the limits of the planet’s natural resources. How community, but for the scientific and business com- quality of life. For lasting improvements in their quality of can we achieve this in the face of growing populations and munities as well. It echoes what the Millennium Ecosystem life, lower income countries are facing the complementary changing consumption patterns, both within the region Assessment found: that the health of natural systems has challenge of finding new paths to development that can and the world? a profound impact on our quality of life, but 60 percent of provide best living conditions without liquidating their As a first step to answering this question, we need to the ecosystem services that support life on Earth are being ecological wealth. know where we are today. How does the Asia-Pacific degraded or used unsustainably. This report provides a The Asia-Pacific region is in a unique position to shape region’s current demand for ecological resources compare frank assessment of what is at stake for Asia and the the development model for the whole world in the coming to the region’s (and the planet’s) supply? How does it Pacific and for the rest of the world. -
Interviewing Inuit Elders
6507.1 Volume 2 covers 5/1/06 1:35 PM Page 1 INTERVIEWINGPerspectives INUIT onELDERS Traditional Law erspectives on Traditional Law P INTERVIEWING INUIT ELDERS Mariano Aupilaarjuk, Marie Tulimaaq, Akisu Joamie, Emile Imaruittuq, Lucassie Nutaraaluk 2 Edited by Jarich Oosten, Frédéric Laugrand and Wim Rasing 6507.5_Fre 5/1/06 9:11 AM Page 239 6507.1OralHistory2 LAW 5/1/06 8:25 AM Page 1 INTERVIEWING INUIT ELDERS Volume 2 Perspectives on Traditional Law Mariano Aupilaarjuk, Marie Tulimaaq, Akisu Joamie, Emile Imaruittuq, Lucassie Nutaraaluk Edited by Jarich Oosten, Frédéric Laugrand and Wim Rasing 6507.1OralHistory2 LAW 5/1/06 8:25 AM Page 2 Interviewing Inuit Elders Volume 2 Prespectives on Traditional Law Copyright ©1999: Nunavut Arctic College and Mariano Aupilaarjuk, Marie Tulimaaq, Akisu Joamie, Emile Imaruittuq, Lucassie Nutaraaluk, Jarich Oosten and Frédéric Laugrand, Wim Rasing, Alexina Kublu and participating students (as listed within). Photos by Nick Newbery (Acknowledgements), Frédéric Laugrand and Sally Mikijuk. Cover illustration “Man and Animals” by Lydia Jaypoody Design and production by Nortext (Iqaluit) All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication, reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without written consent of the publisher is an infringement of the copyright law. ISBN 1-896-204-341 Published by the Language and Culture Program of Nunavut Arctic College, Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0 with the generous -
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CANADIAN POLAR COMMISSION IN THIS ISSUE THE LAW OF THE SEA AND MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH The Law of the Sea and Marine Scientific IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN Research in the Arctic Ocean 1 Ron Macnab, Olav Loken and Arvind Anand FALL/WINTER 2007 Contemporary events and circumstances, ration with other states, and by driving the Global Warming: Arctic Shipping 6 such as melting ice, the International Polar need to define maritime boundaries, these Year, and the UN Convention on the Law of developments touch upon Canada’s interests PEARL – A Canadian Success Story 11 the Sea are providing an unprecedented at the national and international levels. boost to Marine Scientific Research in the Melting ice is facilitating access to ex- The Centre d’études nordiques and central Arctic Ocean. This felicitous situa- panded oceanic regions that historically have the Qaujisarvik Network 15 tion could be short-lived, however, as Arctic remained inaccessible to scientific research coastal states apply the provisions of the on account of their widespread and persis- Social Housing North 17 Law of the Sea to extend their sovereign tent ice cover. The IPY, meanwhile, is mobi- rights beyond 200 nautical miles, enhanc- lizing legions of investigators for an inten- Oral History in Nunavut: ing their entitlement to regulate a range of sive two-year campaign of data gathering An Overview of its Past and scientific activities. This is in marked con- and analysis across a broad range of disci- Present Vitality 20 trast to the Antarctic regime, where freedom plines. Finally, UNCLOS has prompted all five of research is protected under the terms of coastal states that front upon the Arctic Book Review: the Antarctic Treaty. -
Sensitivity of Mangrove Range Limits to Climate Variability Kyle C
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln USGS Staff -- ubP lished Research US Geological Survey 4-28-2017 Sensitivity of mangrove range limits to climate variability Kyle C. Cavanaugh Department of Geography, University of California, [email protected] Michael J. Osland U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center Remi Bardou Department of Geography, University of California Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango Academia de Biodiversidad, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacion para el Desarrollo Integral Regional Unidad Oaxaca (CIIDIR-IPN) Juan M. Lopez-Vivas Programa de Investigacion en Botanica Marina, Departamento Academico de Ciencias Marinas y Costeras, Universidad See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub Part of the Geology Commons, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology Commons, Other Earth Sciences Commons, and the Other Environmental Sciences Commons Cavanaugh, Kyle C.; Osland, Michael J.; Bardou, Remi; Hinojosa-Arango, Gustavo; Lopez-Vivas, Juan M.; Parker, John D.; and Rovai, Andre S., "Sensitivity of mangrove range limits to climate variability" (2017). USGS Staff -- Published Research. 1041. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1041 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the US Geological Survey at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in USGS Staff -- ubP lished Research by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Authors Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Michael J. Osland, Remi Bardou, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango, Juan M. Lopez-Vivas, John D. Parker, and Andre S. Rovai This article is available at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/1041 Received: 28 April 2017 | Revised: 5 March 2018 | Accepted: 14 March 2018 DOI: 10.1111/geb.12751 RESEARCH PAPER Sensitivity of mangrove range limits to climate variability Kyle C.