Building Common Interests in the Arctic Ocean with Global Inclusion

PAUL ARTHUR BERKMAN is a science diplomat, applying, training and refining informed decisionmaking to balance national interests and common interests for the benefit of all on Earth across generations.  He wintered in Antarctica on a SCUBA research expedition with Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1981 and became a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles the following year at the age of 23, beginning to teach about science diplomacy.  Paul travelled to all seven continents before the age of thirty, leading to his textbook on Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica.  From research into action, as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, Paul chaired the Antarctic Treaty Summit at the Smithsonian Institution, resulting in the first book on Science Diplomacy as well as a Congressional Resolution adopted with unanimous consent by the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.  The following year, applying skills of science diplomacy, he co-directed the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia regarding Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean, which became the title of an edited book with over 75,000 downloads.  Prof. Berkman joined Tufts University from 2015-2020 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he founded the first Science Diplomacy Center in the world in an academic institution, which is now directed through EvREsearch LTD, where Prof. Berkman has been the Chief Executive Officer since 1999.  In 2021, Paul also became Director (from Boston) of the Science Diplomacy Center at MGIMO University in Moscow, creating a unique position to build common interests among allies and adversaries alike.  This objective has been explicit throughout his coordinating the Arctic Options / Pan-Arctic Options projects from 2013-2022 with support from national science agencies in the United States, Russian Federation, Norway, France, China and Canada.  Prof. Berkman is a Faculty Associate with the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and Associate Director of Science Diplomacy in the Harvard-MIT Public Disputes Program as well as an Associated Fellow with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), training science diplomacy and informed decisionmaking with the diplomatic corps of many foreign ministries as well as next-generation leaders inclusively.  Paul is senior editor of the Springer book series on Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability, further triangulating education, research and leadership as elements of lifelong learning “for the benefit of all on Earth across generations.”   For his international, interdisciplinary and inclusive contributions, Prof. Berkman has been honoured with awards in the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russian Federation, Norway, New Zealand and Japan.  Most recently, the United States Department of State and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded Paul the Fulbright Arctic Chair 2021-2022.   Paul is happily married with two daughters. ALEXANDER N. VYLEGZHANIN, Doctor of Law, Professor, is a Head of the Program of International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO- University). He is currently elected as a Vice-president of the Russian Association of International Law and a Vice-President of the Russian Association of the Law of the Sea. He is nominated by the Russian Federation to the list of arbitrators according to Annex VII of UNCLOS. He is also elected as a Member of the Presidium of the Committee of Experts on the Arctic and Antarctic of the Council of Federation (the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament). His major interest include General International Law, International Law of the Sea, Legal Regimes of Natural Resources, and Boundaries the Arctic. He has publicized a wide array of books on international issues, mainly in Russian. Prof. Vylegzhanin was awarded a rank of Academician by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2000), and a Medal by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2001) for his book “Legal Regime of Marine Natural Resources” (2001, in Russian). ORAN R. YOUNG is a research professor at the Marine Science Institute and professor emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California (Santa Barbara). His research focuses on theories of environmental governance with applications to issues relating to climate change, marine systems, and the polar regions. He also does comparative research on environmental governance in China and the United States. Dr. Young served for six years as founding chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the US National Academy of Sciences. He chaired the Scientific Steering Committee of the international project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC). He was a founding co-chair of the Global Carbon Project and from 2005 to 2010 chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. An expert on 3 Arctic issues, Dr. Young chaired the Steering Committee of the Arctic Governance Project and is the science advisor to the North Pacific Arctic Conferences. Past service in this realm includes co-chair of the Working Group on Arctic International Relations, member of the US Polar Research Board, founding board member of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, vice-president of the International Arctic Science Committee, chair of the Board of Governors of the University of the Arctic, consultant to the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, and co-chair of the 2004 Arctic Human Development Report. He is the author of more than 20 books. His recent books include Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (2010) and On Environmental Governance: Sustainability, Efficiency, and Equity(2013). His forthcoming book is entitled Governing Complex Systems: Sustainability in the Anthropocene. DAVID BALTON. During most of the development of this book, David Balton was a Senior Fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Polar Institute.  He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries in the Department of State’s Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science, attaining the rank of Ambassador in 2006.  He was responsible for coordinating the development of U.S. foreign policy concerning oceans and fisheries, and overseeing U.S. participation in international organizations dealing with these issues.  His portfolio included managing U.S. foreign policy issues relating to the Arctic and Antarctica.  Ambassador Balton functioned as the lead U.S. negotiator on a wide range of agreements in the field of oceans and fisheries and chaired numerous international meetings.  During the U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council (2015-2017), he served as Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials.  His prior Arctic Council experience included co-chairing the Arctic Council Task Forces that produced the 2011 Agreement on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic and the 2013 Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic.  He separately chaired negotiations that produced the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean.  Ambassador Balton now serves as Executive Director of the U.S. Arctic Executive Steering Committee. OLE ØVRETVEIT served as Director of Arctic Frontiers for eight years through 2020, building Norwegian and international partnerships for this global scientific conference on economic, societal and environmental sustainable growth in the north that began in 2006.  Among his initiatives is the Memorandum of Understanding that he signed on behalf of Arctic Frontiers to enable the international, interdisciplinary and inclusive contributions in this second volume of the Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability book series.  Subsequently, Mr. Øvretveit served as Director of Science to Policy for the Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Bergen, where he received his Master’s degree in Comparative Politics.  Ole Øvretveit now is providing leadership with Initiative West, a think tank focusing on sustainable ocean economy, societal growth and the green transition from the west coast of Norway.

Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1. (Research): Introduction: Building Common Interests with Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability (Paul Arthur Berkman).- Chapter 2. (Action): Welcome to Arctic Frontiers 2020, Plenary Introductory Remarks, Opening Speech (Aili Keskitalo).- Chapter 3. (Action): Welcome to Arctic Frontiers 2020, Plenary Introductory Remarks (Bjørn Inge Mo),- Chapter 4. (Action): Welcome to Arctic Frontiers 2020, Plenary Introductory Remarks (Markus Haraldsvik).-. Part II The Arctic Ocean: Evolving Ecological and Sustainability Challenges.- Chapter 5. (Research): Preventing Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Navigation in Arctic Seas (Alexander N. Vylegzhanin).- Chapter 6. (Research): Microplastics in the Arctic Benthic Fauna: A Case Study of the Snow Crab in the Pechora Sea, Russia (Anna Gebruk).- Chapter 7. (Research): Sustainable Business Development in the Arctic: Under What Rules? (Alexandra Middleton),- Chapter 8. (Research): The Sustainable Use of Marine Living Resources in the Central Arctic Ocean: The Role of Korea in the Context of International Legal Obligations (Yunjin Kim).- Chapter 9. (Research): Combining Knowledge for a Sustainable Arctic - AMAP Cases as Knowledge Driven Science-Policy Interactions.- (Rolf Rødven).- Chapter 10. (Research): The Value of High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations of Ice-Ship and Ice-Structure Interaction in Arctic Design with Informed Decisionmaking (Marnix van den Berg).- Chapter 11. (Action): Sustainable Arctic Ocean.- (Manuel Barange).- Chapter 12. (Action): Sustainable Arctic Ocean (Hide Sakaguchi).- Chapter 13. (Action): Sustainable Arctic Ocean - Ocean Wealth Is Ocean Health (Jens Frølich Holte).- Chapter 14.  (Action): Sustainable Arctic Ocean (Sam Tan).- Part III The Broader Arctic Setting.- Chapter 15. (Research): Evolution of Arctic Exploration from National Interest to Multinational Investment (Eda Ayaydin).- Chapter 16. (Research): Indigenous Community-Based Food Security: A Learning Experience from Cree and Dene First Nation Communities (Colleen J. Charles).- Chapter 17. (Research): From Global to Local Climate Change Governance: Arctic Cities' Perceptions of the Uses of Expert Knowledge (Nadezhda Filimonova).- Chapter 18. (Research): Separate Arrangements of the People's Republic of China, Japan and South Korea on the Arctic: Correlation with the Arctic Council's Policy (Elena V. Kienko).- Chapter 19. (Research): Innovations in the Arctic: Special Nature, Factors, and Mechanisms (Nadezhda Zamyatina).- Chapter 20. (Action): Future Arctic Business (Annika Olsen).- Chapter 21. (Action): Future Arctic Business (Geir Seljeseth).- Chaper 22. (Action): Future Arctic Business (Anders Oskal).- Part IV Informed Decisionmaking Tools and Approaches for the Arctic.- Chapter 23. (Research): Sea Ice Hazard Data Needs for Search and Rescue in Utqia vik, Alaska (Dina Abdel-Fattah).- Chapter 24. (Research): Maritime Ship Traffic in the Central Arctic Ocean High Seas as a Case Study with Informed Decisionmaking (Paul Arthur Berkman).- Chapter 25. (Research): Science for Management Advice in the Arctic Ocean: The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) (Alf Håkon Hoel).- Chapter 26. (Research): The Arctic Is What Scientists Make of It: Integrating Geopolitics into Informed Decisionmaking (Sebastian Knecht).- Chapter 27. (Action): Powered by Knowledge (Anita L. Parlow).- Chapter 28. (Action): Powered by Knowledge (Annika E. Nilsson).- Chapter 29. (Action): Powered by Knowledge (Paul Arthur Berkman),- Chapter 30. (Action): Resilient Arctic Communities (Aileen Campbell).- Chapter 31. (Action): Resilient Arctic Communities (Joel Clement).- Chapter 32. (Action): Resilient Arctic Communities (Mikhail Pogodaev).- Part V Conclusion.- Chapter 33. (Action): The State of the Arctic (Ine Eriksen Søreide).-Chapter 34 (Action): The State of the Arctic (Mike Sfraga).- Chapter 35. (Research): Conclusions: Building Global Inclusion with Common Interests (Paul Arthur Berkman).