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Coping with Institutional Challenges for Arctic Environmental Governance

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This chapter explores new avenues for the analysis of the Arctic Council as a pre-eminent forum in a globally embedded and embedding regional space. The author focuses on the fragmentation of Arctic environmental governance and asks which functions the Arctic Council would need to perform in order to actively and effectively manage institutional interplay. These tasks comprise commitment, collaboration, coordination, cooperation, compliance, and controlling. Based on these functional tasks, the chapter zooms in on the institutional challenges for the Arctic Council with regard to the inclusion of actors, integration of issue areas, and information provision about policy implementation and impact.

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  1. Department for International Relations and International Organization, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

    Christoph Humrich

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  1. Inst. f. Advanced Sustainability Studies , Potsdam, Germany

    Kathrin Keil

  2. Berlin Graduate School for Transnational , Berlin, Germany

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Humrich, C. (2017). Coping with Institutional Challenges for Arctic Environmental Governance. In: Keil, K., Knecht, S. (eds) Governing Arctic Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3_5

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