Shipping in Inuit Nunangat is a timely multidisciplinary volume offering novel insights into key maritime governance issues in Canadian Arctic waters that are Inuit homeland (Inuit Nunangat) in the contemporary context of climate change, growing accessibility of Arctic waters to shipping, the need to protect a highly sensitive environment, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The volume includes policy, legal and institutional findings and recommendations intended to inform scholars and policymakers on managing the interface between shipping, the marine environment, and Indigenous rights in Arctic waters.
Kristin Bartenstein, LL.D. (2007) is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of Université Laval, Québec, Canada. She has written extensively on Arctic-related issues in public international law and international law of the sea. She is the author of a textbook on general public international law (
Droit international public général, PUL, 2021).
Aldo Chircop, JSD (1988) is Professor and former Canada Research Chair on Maritime Law and Policy at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada. He has published extensively on Canadian and international maritime law and the law of the sea, and is co-editor of the
Ocean Yearbook.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
Kristin Bartenstein and Aldo Chircop
Part 1: Understanding the Context of Governance of Shipping in Canadian Arctic Waters
2 “The Sea is Our Mainstay”: Shipping and the Inuit Homeland Monica Ell-Kanayuk and Claudio Aporta 3 Shipping in Arctic Marine Ecosystems under Stress: Recognizing and Mitigating the Threats Warwick F. Vincent, Connie Lovejoy and Kristin Bartenstein 4 Shipping along the Northwest Passage: A Historical Overview Adam Lajeunesse and P. Whitney Lackenbauer 5 Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Canadian Arctic Shipping: Impacts of Climate Change and Globalization Frédéric Lasserre 6 Reconsidering Arctic Shipping Governance through a Decolonizing Lens Leah Beveridge 7 Unpacking Canada’s Arctic Shipping Safety, Security, and Defence Functions Andrea Charron and David Snider 8 Canadian Icebreaker Operations and Shipbuilding: Challenges and Opportunities Timothy Choi 9 Mitigating the Tyranny of Time and Distance: Community-Based Organizations and Marine Mass Rescue Operations in Inuit Nunangat Peter Kikkert, Calvin Aivgak Pedersen, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Part 2: Reimagining the Governance of Shipping in Canadian Arctic Waters
10 Canada and the Future of Arctic Coastal State Jurisdiction Kristin Bartenstein 11 The Modern Case Law on the Powers and Responsibilities of Flag States: Navigating Canada’s Arctic Waters Nigel Bankes 12 The Canadian Policy, Legal and Institutional Framework for the Governance of Arctic Shipping Aldo Chircop 13 Goal-Based Standards, Meta-Regulation and Tripartism in Arctic Shipping: What Prospects in Canadian Waters? Phillip A. Buhler 14 Modernizing the Governance of Passenger Vessel Operations in the Canadian Arctic Meagan Greentree 15 Governing Canadian Arctic Shipping through Low-Impact Shipping Corridors Jackie Dawson and Gloria Songbr/> 16 The New Federal Impact Assessment Act and Arctic Shipping: Opportunities for Improved Governance Meinhard Doelle, David V. Wright, A. John Sinclair and Simon Dueck 17 Indigenous Self-Determination and the Regulation of Navigation and Shipping in Canadian Arctic Waters Suzanne Lalonde and Nigel Bankes 18 Conclusion Aldo Chircop and Kristin Bartenstein
Index
Universities and research institutes focused on Arctic studies, shipping, Indigenous rights, climate change and environment, government departments (foreign affairs, environment, transportation, Indigenous affairs), Indigenous organizations and non-governmental organizations (environment, human rights, shipping).