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?

Resource distribution: How natural resources are distributed among different groups and individuals?

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

Spatial Justice: How does the instrument affect spatial relationships? What harms or benefits might arise from the changes in spatial relationships?

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

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?

Humans and nature: Is the environment (or its components) treated as a value in itself?

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

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and their resources. It embodies in one instrument traditional rules for the uses of the oceans and at the same time introduces new legal concepts and regimes and addresses new concerns. The Convention also provides the framework for further development of specific areas of the law of the sea.