Maritime Policy & Management: The flagship journal of international shipping and port research

Circumpolar nations face both challenges and opportunities as climate change opens access to the Arctic, bringing increased traffic - passengers and cargoes - into the region.

This special issue sets aside the question of mitigation of climate change, and takes as its starting point that climate change is occurring, that it cannot be, in the near term, reversed, and that, through reduction in the Arctic ice pack, will result in increased economic development and thus a consequent increase in traffic in and through Arctic waters.

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