The Northern Sea Route as a Shipping Lane : Expectations and Reality - Pastusiak, Tadeusz; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
PART I. The Northern Sea Route in global shipping and history -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A brief history of navigation on the Northern Sea Route -- PART II. Environmental conditions - bathymetry, climate and hydrology -- Chapter 3. Environmental conditions affecting the use of the Northern Sea Route as a shipping lane -- Chapter 4. Sea ice occurring on the seas of the Russian Arctic and its impact on navigating the Northern Sea Route -- PART III: Technical conditions - vessels, infrastructure, routes and nodal points -- Chapter 5. Technical conditions affecting the use of the Northern Sea Route as a shipping lane -- Chapter 6. Variants of the Northern Sea Route -- PART IV: Current and further accessibility of the Northern Sea Route -expectations and reality -- Chapter 7. Route selection on the Northern Sea Route under continuously changing ice conditions -- Chapter 8. The possibility of using the Northern Sea Route in the light of climate change scenarios -- Chapter 9. Summary and conclusions. .
Keywords: Polar regions; Transportation engineering; Traffic engineering; Climate change; Polar Geography; Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts