The authors provide a cross-disciplinary approach including geopolitical, institutional, technological, corporate and environmental perspectives to analyse the underlying factors that shape the future development of the region. Three future scenarios are developed, exploring various levels of cooperation and development influenced by and resulting from potential political, commercial and environmental circumstances. Through these scenarios, the book improves understanding of the challenges and opportunities for Arctic petroleum resource development and promotes further consideration of the possible outcomes of future cooperation.
The book should be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers working in the areas of Arctic studies, oil and gas studies, energy security, global environmental governance, environmental politics and environmental technology.
Chapters 1, 2, and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Anatoli Bourmistrov is Professor and Head of Section at Bodø Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland, Norway and Project Manager at the High North Center for Business.
Frode Mellemvik
is Director of the High North Center and Professor at Bodø Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland, Norway.Alexei Bambulyak
is Country Manager, Russia, at the research company Akvaplan-niva, Norway.Ove Gudmestad
is Professor of Marine Technology at the University of Stavanger, Norway.Indra Overland
is Head of the Russia, Eurasia and Arctic Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Professor II at Bodø Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland, Norway.Anatoly Zolotukhin
is Counsellor on International Affairs, Research Director of the Institute of Arctic Petroleum Technologies and Professor of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering at Gubkin University, Moscow, Russia.