Arctic waters: Needs and options for CANADIAN‐AMERICAN cooperation

Abstract

Four major factors bid the United States and Canada to move toward more formalized arrangements for cooperative ocean management in the Arctic. Ocean currents in the Beaufort Sea region have the potential of transporting marine pollutants from one country to the other. Living resources, such as bowhead and beluga whales, undertake extensive transboundary migrations. Alaskan and Canadian Inuit depend heavily on renewable marine resources and raise the need for ocean management on an ecological basis. Cost savings could occur by coordinating development of offshore coldwater technologies and shipping safety systems. This paper suggests six options for moving toward a more regionalized approach to the management of Arctic waters: a Beaufort Sea Boundary Agreement, a Beaufort Marine Cooperation Agreement, a Northwest Passage Agreement, an Equal Access

Global warming and the coastal zone

“…They are forecast even today in writing about need for Canadian-American cooperation (Lamson and VanderZwaag, 1987). They are forecast even today in writing about need for Canadian-American cooperation (Lamson and VanderZwaag, 1987).…”