The report summarises the results of a consultation of stakeholders in the Arctic region on investment priorities for EU support and ways of streamlining EU funding programmes. While conditions across the Arctic vary considerably, there is wide agreement on the main priority for investment – to ...
The goal of the IMOBAR study is to estimate and compare costs and benefits of Arctic observation systems as a contribution towards the "business case" for sustaining Arctic observations in the long-term and to support the decision-making process. Accelerated warming and rapid environmental chang...
The Commission services and the European External Action Service (EEAS) jointly launched a public consultation on the way forward for the EU Arctic policy. The consultation contributes to a broad reflection on the EU Arctic policy faced with new challenges and opportunities, including the EU’s o...
Europes border regions and maritime areas, like its Arctic and the Mediterranean regions, are facing negative impacts due to climate change. Countries responsible for these transnational areas are already taking action to adapt to changes in weather and climate extreme events (e.g. increased he...
This thesis argues that the emergence and expansion of the European-origin international society (EIS) has taken place through two dominant organizational processes. The first is the social organization and expansion of the international society. It is primarily associated with the stabilization...
The Arctic is experiencing unprecedented and disproportionately high rates of environmental change due to effects of climate change. These changing conditions are making it easier to exploit the natural wealth of the Arctic (mineral, fisheries, land) while putting the existence of Arctic ecosyst...
By modifying the albedo of the sea ice, black carbon (BC) deposited during the winter in the Arctic might contribute to the observed reduction of the sea ice cover in the recent years. This study attempts to estimate how the modification of large scale weather patterns due to the climate change ...
The purpose of this report is to explore how smart specialisation (S3) has been applied in Nordic sparsely populated regions, with focus on the European Arctic. The report gives an overview of the specific context of Arctic regions and of their specialisations, and reviews how smart specialisati...