Governing Arctic Seas: Regional Lessons from the Bering Strait and Barents Sea

Acknowledgements.- About the Authors.- List of Acronyms.- Book Series Introduction.- Series Preface: Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability.- Volume 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1:  Governing Arctic Seas: Sustainability in the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions.- The Bering Strait Region.- Chapter 2:  Ecosystems of the Bering Strait Region.- Chapter 3:  Economies of the Bering Strait Region.- Chapter 4:  Sociocultural Features of the Bering Strait Region.- Chapter 5:  Governing the Bering Strait Region.- The Barents Sea Region.- Chapter 6:  Ecosystems of the Barents Sea Region.- Chapter 7:  Economies of the Barents Sea Region.- Chapter 8:  The Barents Sea Region in a Human Security Perspective.- Chapter 9:  Governing the Barents Sea Region.- Crosscutting Themes and Analytic Tools.- Chapter 10:  Integrated Ocean Management.- Chapter 11: Next-Generation Arctic Marine Shipping Assessments.- Chapter 12:  Information Ecology to Map the Arctic Information Landscape.- Chapter 13:  Mapping and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic.- Chapter 14:  Building Capacity: Education Beyond Boundaries.- Conclusion.- Chapter 15:  Informed Decisionmaking for the Sustainability of Ecopolitical Regions.- Index.

PAUL ARTHUR BERKMAN is Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Research Professor in the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara in the United States as well as Director of the Arctic Futures Initiative through the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. He has convened and co-chaired numerous international and interdisciplinary dialogues, including the: Antarctic Treaty Summit in Washington, DC on the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty (2009); NATO advanced research workshop that became the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia regarding Arctic security (2010); and Workshop on Safe Ship Operations in the Arctic Ocean at the International Maritime Organization (2014). Among his books are: Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean (Springer, 2012); Science Diplomacy: Antarctica, Science and the Governance of International Spaces (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011); Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean: Promoting Cooperation and Preventing Conflict (Routledge, 2010); and Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica (Academic Press, 2002). Prof. Berkman has received the: Antarctic Service Medal from the United States Congress; NASA Faculty Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Byrd Fellowship at The Ohio State University; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan; Erskine Fellowship in the Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury in New Zealand; and Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom as well as being elected to the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. Paul has a master's degree and doctorate in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a NationalScience Foundation Graduate Fellow.