Project description
New framework for Arctic economic activities
From fossil fuel and mineral extraction to transport, the Arctic is experiencing a marked increase in human activity. Currently, it is also experiencing an unprecedented level of economic prosperity. The EU-funded JUSTNORTH project will study the viability of Arctic economic activities in view of the area’s social, economic and environmental complexities. Bringing together 15 partners from 7 disciplines, it will evaluate 18 case studies using innovative research methodology based on interviews, comparisons and correlations. The project will draw from its findings to develop a framework that can help determine whether the viability of economic activities in the Arctic is in line with Sustainable Development Goals. It will promote the insights and views tabled by indigenous stakeholders, local businesses, state officials and NGOs.
Objective
Arctic development of the past is persistent in inequitable practices, leaving scars from the impacts of social, economic and environmental inequality. In addition, Arctic development of today is occurring alongside the adverse effects of climate change within an integrated global system deficient in mechanisms for incentivising just transitions toward sustainable development. With the goal of enhancing the governance capacity of the EU to mitigate this problem, JUSTNORTH brings together 16 partners from 7 disciplines to evaluate the viability of Arctic economic activities. The project will merge justice theories with sustainable development goals to enable EU policy coherence toward just transitions. This will be integrated with an investigation of the empirical realities of existing Arctic economic activities in 17 case studies using innovative research methodology, through conceptual, comparative, descriptive, correlation, policy, legal and interview-based analysis techniques. Though this, JUSTNORTH will offer policy, legal and regulatory pathway recommendations, by developing a frameworks from the reconciliation of the various ethics and value systems present in the Arctic, which can serve as a cornerstone for determining the viability of economic activities in the Arctic in line with the goals of sustainable development. Ultimately, JUSTNORTH will provide both a negotiation tool for stakeholders to Arctic development (and a potential labelling standard for just/ethical regulatory standards) in its JUSTscore framework, which will create both transparency, documentation and standardisation for sustainable development across the Arctic (and the EU market). Adhering to coproduction of knowledge with stakeholders throughout, JUSTNORTH will bring insights from indigenous, local, business, State and NGO perspectives of the social, economic and environmental complexities of the Arctic into the realm of policymaking for just sustainable development.
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751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
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Participants (19)
BN1 9RH Brighton
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96101 Rovaniemi
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600 Akureyri
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28040 Madrid
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T12 YN60 Cork
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KY16 9AJ St Andrews
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CF24 0DE Cardiff
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6856 Sogndal
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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9220 Aalborg
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E845L London
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
49931 Houghton Mi
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163002 ARKHANGELSK
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Pokfulam
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3062 PA Rotterdam
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6708 PB Wageningen
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750 07 Uppsala
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8026 Bodo
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
8049 Bodo
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