Publication on Indigenous Communities and Marine Mammals

Richard Caddell has published a chapter considering the implications for Arctic indigenous communities of EU policies towards marine mammals in a new collection addressing the role of the EU in the High North.

The European Union and the Arctic edited by Nengye Liu, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Tore Henriksen is a new collection that seeks to fill a significant gap in the current literature on the Arctic by focusing exclusively on the role of the EU and the successes and failures of its policies in the region.

In a chapter co-written with Martin Hennig of UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the authors examine the often strained relationship that the EU has had with indigenous Arctic communities due to its policies concerning marine mammals. The chapter sheds new light on the EU’s negotiating stance towards seals and whales, with particular reference to the role of the EU in multilateral institutions, demonstrating that significant policy adjustments will be needed if the EU is to realise its objective of maintaining a strong partnership role to Arctic communities.

Due to generous funding from the FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Fund, the book is available as an open access resource. You can download it free of charge at Brill Online.