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Department of Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia,. Prince George, Canada. N. Loukacheva (ed.). Polar Law and Resources (Copenhagen ...
Arctic Review on Law and Politics Vol. 6, No. 2, 2015, pp. 175

Polar Law and Resources Natalia Loukacheva* Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Governance and Law, Department of Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada

N. Loukacheva (ed.). Polar Law and Resources (Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Council of Ministers, TemaNord 533, 2015). 156 pages. ISSN 0908-6692. Current polar law developments indicate that both the Arctic and Antarctica will continue to be the focus of growing scientific, international, political, media, and public discourse for the foreseeable future. The regulation of resources and associated issues form one of the key areas of polar law and will thus continue to constitute the crux of legal, geopolitical, socioeconomic, and environmental developments. An overview of polar law questions and topical developments was provided in the pioneering 2010 Polar Law Textbook and in the 2013 Polar Law Textbook II (see www.norden.org), both of which covered a number of topics relevant to the polar resources debate. Building on these works, this new volume focuses on topical issues of law and resource development in the polar regions and covers topics of current and emergent resource-related issues mainly from a legal and political perspective. This book is the outcome of cooperation among an international group of well-known experts in the field of polar law and related studies, namely Natalia Loukacheva, Julia Jabour, Jan-Gunnar Winther, Øyvind Ravna, Erik J. Molenaar, Niels Einarsson, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Nikolas Sellheim, Maria M. das Neves, Nigel Bankes, Alyson J. K. Bailes, and Anton Vasiliev.

*Correspondence to: Natalia Loukacheva, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Governance and Law, Department of Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada. Email: [email protected] The book is available in hard copy, see www.norden.org Free download at http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/TN2015-533 #2015 N. Loukacheva. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. Citation: N. Loukacheva. ‘‘Polar Law and Resources.’’ Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2015, pp. 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v6.182

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