Timo Koivurova is Director and a Research Professor of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Finland. Qin Tianbao is Professor, Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law and Associate Dean for the Law School, Wuhan University, China. Sébastien Duyck is Research Fellow at the Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern, Switzerland and a Visiting Researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland, Finland. Tapio Nykänen is Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, Finland.
This is a lively, well-written and comprehensive collection of essays on a series of interconnected themes, each of which rewards careful reading in its own right, as well as part of a wider narrative. The book also provides a series of new insights into national approaches, as well as a clear-sighted and unflinching treatment of pressing regulatory issues facing the Arctic and the prospective contributions of China, Finland and the EU in this regard. The book is also a valuable test case for the merits of cross-institutional collaboration, allowing scholars from very different legal backgrounds to challenge each other's assumptions, approaches and prevailing legal philosophies. The result is a rigorous and insightful volume of contemporary scholarship - and a hopeful metaphor for future Arctic cooperation. -- Richard Caddell, Cardiff University * Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law *