Abstract
Drawing on the chapters dealing with the ecological, economic, and sociocultural systems of the Barents Sea Region, this chapter identifies key issues of governance arising in the region and makes use of our approach to informed decisionmaking for sustainability to guide thinking about options for addressing these issues. We identify two issues as priority concerns: (i) will the suite of biophysical changes that are altering the character of the Barents Sea Region generate new needs for governance and (ii) how can we address a number of socioeconomic developments in the region that are making it harder to respond to needs for governance on a sectoral basis? We then identify options (without advocacy) that decisionmakers may consider in selecting responses to the priority issues in such a way as to maximize the achievement of sustainability.
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Notes
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A recent article claims that “More than 80 percent of tourists on Russian icebreaker tours to the North Pole are Chinese” (Pincus 2018).
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Organizations differ from institutions in that they are material entities with offices, personnel, and budgets. Typically, organizations play important roles in administering institutions (Young 1989, Ch. 2).
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The Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission has regulatory areas encompassing those parts of the BaSR that are beyond coastal state jurisdiction.
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For background on the structure and operations of the BEAC, consult: www.beac.st/en
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For a general account of the uses of satellite observations in addressing environmental problems, see Stokke and Young 2017.
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Vylegzhanin, A.N., Young, O.R., Berkman, P.A. (2020). Governing the Barents Sea Region. In: Young, O., Berkman, P., Vylegzhanin, A. (eds) Governing Arctic Seas: Regional Lessons from the Bering Strait and Barents Sea. Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25674-6_9
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