Open AccessAquatorialities of the Arctic Region – A Systems Theoretical Analysis of Risks
Author(s) -
Gorm Harste
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.8.2.8
Subject(s) - arctic , territoriality , the arctic , coding (social sciences) , communications system , order (exchange) , code (set theory) , geography , politics , computer science , environmental resource management , telecommunications , political science , computer security , ecology , business , sociology , environmental science , oceanography , biology , law , geology , social science , set (abstract data type) , finance , programming language
In order to describe the Arctic system I propose using a concept functionally equivalent to territoriality, namely aquatoriality. Whether communicating about territoriality or aquatoriality, concepts and delimitations are both contingent to forms of communication systems. I will distinguish between six communications systems that differentiated from each other could become involved in the new deals emerging around the Arctic. Apart of an economic communication code about the Arctic, a legal code, ecological communication codes, and tourist communication codes, I will cope with the military coding of the Arctic. These codes could then appear structurally coupled to a political system that in an organizational way appears in the Arctic Council.