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ECONOR  

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  • Short Title: ECONOR Proposal URL:http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=355 The project builds on two prior activities. First, the ArcStat project has performed a very important service in setting up a data base system for economic activity in the Arctic (University Laval, Quebec, Gerard) . That activity has a history and a purpose of its own, valid and valuable independently of the proposed IPY activity, but will prove additionally valuable as a basis for the proposed activity. Second, the ECONOR project, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nordic Council of Ministers, has seven participating institutions throughout the Arctic (see list, concluding section). The project has built a network and started documentation and analysis of the importance of the Arctic to the rest of the world. Using the network through workshops and collection of data and analysis, the project focuses on trade and other economic flows between the Arctic regions and the rest of the world. Briefly, the draft report concludes: i) the Arctic is important to the rest of the world as a resource provider through trade flows, not only because of its unique natural habitats and the livelihoods of the people living there; ii) climate change may raise the value of certain resources to the rest of the world (increased growth, reduced costs), while reducing the value of others; iii) increased access, due to receding sea ice, will not only increase the value of important resources, but also put stress on existing control regimes, including geopolitically through maritime transport and military presence. Proposed activities in the ECONOR II project are as follows: a) The value of Arctic natural resources. The value of natural resources (oil, gas and other mineral resources, fish, forests, tourism) will here be estimated based on an optimal control regime, i.e. assuming that challenges such as over fishing, stalemate and conflict will somehow be handled adequately. Environmental stresses will be among the important management challenges in this critically vulnerable area. b) Sovereign control and access to resources in the Arctic. This activity builds on existing boundaries of sovereign control, and asks what important coordination requirements there are between countries in order for resources and activities to be managed sensibly in an era when both access to and pressure on arctic resources will be increasing. The activity comprises analysis of political economy, but limited to the perspective of interests between countries. c) The political economy of natural resources development in the Arctic. This project applies concepts from the literature on decentralization, to analyze how institutions within each country influences both how resources are developed and how the rent is distributed. Is it the case, for instance, that delegation of decision-making power to an Arctic region, or to indigenous people (or both) will influence how the resources are developed, employment consequences in the Arctic, and how beneficial resource developments will be? For all the three activities, there is a required minimum level of participation from the network institutions, and this comprises data provision and descriptive analysis. As an example of how this goes beyond data on resources and activity levels, information is required on how decision making is delegated to Arctic sub-national entities in the federal countries (USA, Canada, Russia) and in the unitary countries (Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Sweden, Finland). On this basis, specialized activities will be built, as funding allows. (en)

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