Shipping in Inuit Nunangat

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