Elizabeth Kirk is a professor of International Environmental Law at Nottingham Trent University.     https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/elizabeth-kirk/rss en Environment Mon, 03 Oct 2016 06:51:31 +0000 Elizabeth Kirk https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2016/10/03/the-job-of-protecting-the-arctic https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2016/10/03/the-job-of-protecting-the-arctic Who is supposed to protect the Arctic? The 4 million people who live north of the Arctic Circle can’t regulate the whole area themselves. There is debate over whether coastal Arctic states alone should be able to permit or refuse fishing, or oil and gas extraction.