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In 2013 the Arctic Council consolidated its role at the centre of Arctic governance. This chapter argues that the political discussions at the time also increased the council’s focus on creating a safe operating space for business, while environmental sustainability slipped down the agenda.
In May 2013, the Arctic Council summit in Kiruna, Sweden adopted a Vision for the Arctic that emphasised how predictable rules and continued cooperation between Arctic states would spur economic development, trade and investment. With an empirical focus on how Arctic national strategies and Arctic Council documents discuss “security” and “sustainable development”, this chapter scrutinizes the political discussions at the time.
The chapter summarises the development as an attempt to create a safe operating space for business – a nod to the idea that political ambitions relating to environmental change should focus on ensuring safe operating space for humanity,
This and the other chapters in the book Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives are the result of the Mistra-funded project Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources and Governance.
Project / Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities (REXSAC) is an interdisciplinary research environment focusing on sustainability and Arctic mining.
Project / Understanding the integrated impacts of change in the Arctic with focus on the risk for large shifts in ecosystems services that affect human well-being.
Journal article
Other publication / This synthesis integrates key findings of the scientific assessment, the Arctic Resilience Report.
Journal article / US Arctic policy development during the Obama presidency is viewed with a longer perspective, including how US interests in the region have been formulated.
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