期刊名称：Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics
电子版ISSN：2324-0652
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：58-80
出版社：University of Lapland
摘要：The Earth system is threatened by the continuous growth and expanding scopeof human activity. At the same time, offshore petroleum operations in the Arcticare increasing the burdens on vulnerable marine ecological systems. In research onoffshore industries, the environmental focus is on contributions to climate change and“worst-case scenarios” of oil spills. An undesirable implication of such spills is thatother common polluting operations escape critical review, also due to a predominantmarginalistic approach to considering environmental problems. In the wake ofeconomic activities and industries expanding into increasingly more exposed andvulnerable areas, the article centres on the discharge of drilling waste from petroleumoperations in the Barents Sea. The purpose of the qualitative research is to presentsuggestions for environmental improvements to the Norwegian regime for dischargingdrilling waste. A theory of definite stakeholders is applied to bring together the mostcrucial views on the increased pollution. The principal result is a suggestion to enhanceecological integrity by changing the decision-making system regarding permissionto pollute. The authors conclude that the applied systemic methodology yields newknowledge and salient policy recommendations for a part of the Barents Sea petroleumregime that has been less studied to date..
