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1. Setting the Scene: Polar Cruise Tourism in the 21st Century / Emma J. Stewart
The cruise industry and the polar regions
Sustainable tourism and the polar regions
2. Polar Yacht Cruising / Mark B. Orams
The past: Adventurers and explorers
The present: The polar regions and yachts
Important issues regarding impacts
3. Cruising to the North Pole aboard a Nuclear Icebreaker / Robert K. Headland
The first full-scale voyage
Ice and weather conditions
Environmental considerations
Wildlife records and observations
Lectures and other activities
Other locations: Eurasian Arctic archipelagos and the Northeast Passage
Pole of relative inaccessibility
4. Selling the Adventure of a Lifetime: An Ethnographic Report on Cruising in the Antarctic / Arthur Asa Berger
The ocean cruise industry: An American form of tourism
Categories of ocean cruise lines
Specialty cruise lines to Antarctica
A mainstream cruise to Antarctica on the Star Princess
Specialty cruise ships to Antarctica
The sacred, the profane and Antarctica
The myth model and Antarctic travel
The fortunate few and Antarctica's good fortune
5. Cruises and Bruises: Safety, Security and Social Issues on Polar Cruises / Ross A. Klein
The issue of carrying capacity
Economics of cruise tourism
6. Exploring the Ethical Standards of Alaska Cruise Ship Tourists and the Role they Inadvertently Play in the Unsustainable Practices of the Cruise Ship Industry / Valerie Sheppard
Discussion of the results
Conclusions and recommendations
7. Students on Ice: Learning in the Greatest Classrooms on Earth / Geoff Green
Foundations and raison d'etre (mandate)
Comments from students and staff
pt. III ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS
8. Environmental Impacts of Polar Cruises / Michael Luck
Environmental impacts of cruises in polar regions
9. Monitoring Patterns of Cruise Tourism across Arctic Canada / Jackie Dawson
Cruise tourism across Arctic Canada
Monitoring cruise ship activity in Arctic Canada
Cruise tourism in the High Arctic
Cruise tourism in the Northwest Passage
Cruise tourism in the Baffin Bay region
Cruise tourism in the Hudson Bay region
