Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier I), based at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada. Dr. Chircop chairs the International Working Group on Polar Shipping of the Comité Maritime International. He has published extensively on the international law of the sea, Canadian and international maritime law and Arctic shipping.Floris Goerlandt, D.Sc. (Tech) holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Risk Management and Resource Optimization for Marine Industries at Dalhousie University. With a background in marine technology, maritime sciences, and maritime risk and safety management, his research focuses on maritime risk governance, organizational processes for accident prevention, and methods and tools for emergency preparedness and response.Claudio Aporta is a cultural anthropologist who has studied and documented Inuit environmental and geographic knowledge for 20 years across the totality of the Canadian Arctic. He is Associate Professor at the Marine Affairs Program, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Canada.Ronald Pelot has been a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Dalhousie University, Canada, since 1994.  Over the past two decades, he and his team have developed new software tools and analysis methods applied to maritime traffic safety (accidents), coastal zone security, and marine spills. Research methods encompass spatial risk analysis, vessel traffic modelling, data processing and pattern analysis, location models for response resource allocation, and safety analyses. Dr. Pelot has published over 50 journal articles and produced more than 100 technical reports.

• Introduction.- PART A: MARINE RISK ASSESSMENT PERSPECTIVES.- 1) Application of the IGRC framework for SAR.- 2) Historical Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) Incident Analysis:  Interactive visualization aids for improved risk assessment and decision making.- 3) Oil spill risk in the Canadian Arctic: An exploratory application of the International Risk Governance Framework.- 4) Ship-generated underwater noise.- PART B: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING PERSPECTIVES.- 5) Shipping Governance and Inuit Rights.- 6) Inuit knowledge and data: An exploration of decision support systems for marine spatial planning in the eastern Canadian Arctic.- 7) Balancing competing ocean uses: The EU approach to Marine Spatial Planning.- 8) Integrated Ocean Management in France: Some perspectives.- PART C: MARITIME REGULATORY POLICY PERSPECTIVES.- 9) The IMO Framework and Process of Shipping Regulations.- 10) The regulation of air pollution from ships in the Northwest Atlantic and Arctic Oceans: The need for an integrated and equitable approach.- 11) A Change in the Ice Regime: Polar Code Implementation in Canada Drummond Fraser, Transport Canada.- 12) Seafarers and Arctic cruise shipping: Protecting those who work while others explore and sightsee.- 13) Mapping the Occupational Health and Safety Challenges Arising from Employment-Related Geographical Mobility (E-RGM) Among Canadian Seafarers on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River.- 14) Fisher safety.- 15) Search and rescue at sea: do new challenges need new rules?.- 16) Conclusion.