Publisher's Synopsis
Polar Law represents a new frontier of comparative law. In particular, Polar Law deals with questions such as the legal status of Arctic indigenous peoples, particularly with regard to Inuit/Eskimo and Saami/Lapps, in the general context of protecting and promoting minority rights. It also looks at issues that have more recently come to the attention of scholars, such as with the impact of climate change on the Arctic and Subarctic environment, protection of bio-cultural diversity in the polar regions, the exploitation of vast natural resources, including primarily oil, of the North Pole, the compatibility of scientific research, and conservation of natural areas of the South Pole with the increase of tourism activities. This book examines, in an interdisciplinary perspective and with special regard to the issues of comparative public law, the actual problems of the polar areas, geographically at the edge of the world but politically and legally at its heart. [Subject: Comparative Law, Arctic Law, Polar Law, Public Law]
