Russia accounts for more than half of the Arctic Ocean coastline and thus has sovereign rights for most Arctic offshore … petroleum resources. The Northern Sea Route along the Russian coast is projected to become the main shipping lane for the Arctic … Russian State revenue coming from oil and gas development, the industry is turning to the Arctic and Far East. Anthropogenic …

"Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic …, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the …