Policy Implications

Chapter V lays out recommendations for an Arctic environmental regime. These recommendations include special protection for indigenous species, increased scientific research and cooperation, specifications for search and rescue capabilities, integrated ship monitoring and ice chart systems and comprehensive regional fisheries management and tourism regulations. This chapter also investigates the vagaries of future icebreaker construction and the role icebreakers can play in the Arctic. Finally, this chapter recommends where to direct the national resources of the eight Arctic nations in the Arctic in the coming years.