- Senior Researcher+47 90021931
The Arctic Council has been widely hailed for producing and synthesising scientific findings and knowledge. Based on these findings, the working groups of the Arctic Council have made recommendations on what states and the international community should do to safeguard the Arctic. However, less is known about when, how, and why this knowledge and recommendations are used.
We ask the following question: To what extent and under what conditions do member states use the knowledge and policies generated in the Arctic Council? We narrow in on three key issue areas in the work of the AC: short-lived climate pollutants, biodiversity and marine protected areas, and maritime shipping.
The project will analyse and compare the science–policy nexus in two Arctic states—Norway and Canada—which differ in analytically conducive ways. How does the science assessed and synthesised by the Arctic Council directly or indirectly affect policy decisions and environmental management in the two states?
Project period: 2023-2026
FNI PROJECT LEADER
FNI PARTICIPANTS
- Senior Researcher+47 47480167 / +43 699 10198737
- Senior Researcher+47 47330349
- Senior Researcher+45 27245917
- Research Professor+47 47478351
- Researcher+47 97892081
- Simon Fraser University
- Trent University, Canada
- University of Lapland
- D. Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - Santa Barbara ⟶ University of California
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Macdonald–Laurier Institute
- Research Council of Norway
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
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The Polar Journal, Vol 13, No 2, 2024, pp. 1-18.
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Polar Record, Vol 60, 2024, 7 p. DOI: 10.1017/S0032247423000335
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In Østhagen (ed), Norway's Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity in the High North. Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. 23-37
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Science Norway, 26 January, 2024.
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Aftenposten, January 1, 2024. In Norwegian.
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Vårt försvar, Nr 4, December 2023
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FNI-rapport 5/2023. Lysaker, FNI, 2023, 19 p. In Norwegian.
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High North News/Altinget.no, May 11, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Forskning.no, May 11, 2023. In Norwegian.
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High North News, March 28, 2023. In Norwegian. English version here.
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Forskning.no, February 24, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Dagens næringsliv, December 1, 2022. In Norwegian.
RELATED RESEARCH AREA(S)
IN MEDIA
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Ryssland "rasslar med sablarna" i Arktis (Russia "Rattles the Sabers" in the Arctic)
Aftonbladet, February 15, 2024. In Swedish.
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Rusland truer med at forlade vitalt organ for samarbejde i Arktis (Russia threatens to leave Arctic Council)
DR, February 9, 2024. In Danish.
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Truer med å trekke seg fra Arktisk råd (Russia threatens to withdraw from the Arctic Council)
High North News, February 7, 2024. In Norwegian.
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Arctic Frontiers 2024: “Without Russia, the Arctic Council Will Not Survive”
High North News, February 1, 2024.
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Analysis: The Rise and Sudden Fall of the Arctic Council
Foreign Policy, May 31, 2023.
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Norge overtar lederskapet i Arktisk råd (Norway takes over the Arctic Council leadership)
NRK Nyheter (TV/radio), May 11, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Norge skal lede det «viktigste forumet» om Arktis. Da kan ikke Russland ignoreres. (Norway is to lead the "most important forum" on the Arctic. Russia cannot then be ignored.)
Aftenposten, May 11, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Future of Arctic Council in doubt after end of Russian chairship
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, May 11, 2023.
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Osäker framtid för Arktiska Rådet: ”Risk att allt kollapsar” (Uncertain future for the Arctic Council: "Risk of everything collapsing")
Sveriges Radio, May 11, 2023. In Swedish.
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– Samarbeidet i Arktisk råd er dypt forankret i de arktiske statenes forskningsmiljøer (- The collaboration in the Arctic Council is deeply rooted in the Arctic states' research environments)
High North News, May 10, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Iskaldt før Norge overtar Arktisk Råd (Freezing before Norway takes over the Arctic Council leadership)
VG, May 10, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Analysis: Fears mount for the Arctic as cooperation with Russia stalls
Reuters, May 9, 2023. (58 duplicates)
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China Wants to Support Norway in Restoring the Arctic Council
High North News, April 28, 2023.