JUSTNORTH Regulatory and Policy Database

   

Regulation:Finland's Strategy for Arctic Policy
Short name:Finnish Arctic Strategy
Number:2021:55
Issuing entity:Finland
Date:2021/06/18
Reference:https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/163247
Hard/soft law instrument:Soft law
Relevant justice questions:

Chosen justice question particularly relevant for the regulatory/policy framework (in the light of JUSTNORTH research, aimed at supporting future justice-focused research on Arctic governance):

Weighting values: Does the framework promote certain values and interests at the expense of others? Whose interests are being promoted? Is the framework trying to strike a balance, promote certain interests or obscure the tensions within society, including individual vs group/community/global community interests?

Procedural justice: What are the opportunities for participation in decision-making and who is envisaged as a stakeholder?

Inclusion and participation: Are all relevant stakeholders/rightsholders included in the governance/decision-making process and are there any important stakeholders who are excluded? 

Climate justice: How is the implementation of a law/policy affected by climate changes?

Environmental justice and ethics: What identifiable actual or potential environmental harms and benefits are governed by the given regulatory framework? How are they distributed?

Environmental justice and ethics: What are the anthro-, bio- or eco-centric elements of a given regulatory framework? What norms and ideologies lie behind this orientation? What are the efects of this orientation on different measures within the regulation/policy?

Rights: Which rights and rights frameworks are expressly included in the governance framework, which are missing?

Level:National and EU/EEA
Remarks: 
Brief description: 

Economic and social activity:

Digitalization
Electrical power and other energy
Forestry
General Entrepreneurship
General/other
Land use management
Mining
Recreation and Tourism
Renewable energy
Research
Traditional subsistence/local knowledge/Reindeer herding
Transport

Regulatory concern:

Community and regional development and cross-border cooperation
Environment and climate change
Governance and participation, politics and international cooperation
Land, coastal and maritime management

Case study relevance

CS13: Transportation Links and Power Disparities: The Arctic Railway Plans in Finland
CS14: Mining in the Finnish Arctic
CS15: The Power and Perish of Multiple Land-Use for Indigenous and Traditional Livelihoods in Northern Finland
CS16: Balancing Sustainable Opportunities in the Arctic: Wind Power & Reindeer Herding in Northern Finland