Comparative Integrated Work Package Report for Justice in Participation and Governance: Towards Just, Equitable and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies

This report assesses the status of the economic sectors under consideration in case studies 13-16 and 18 of JUSTNORTH, giving a rich overview of the existing context of the economic activities through analyses of justice. The report discusses evaluations of the ethical conditions of economic activities, the risks to stakeholders and ecosystem services and finally, barriers and pathways to sustainable development under the theme of justice in participation and governance. This consolidated report integrates the research findings of and provides a comparative analysis of the findings on human and natural systems, mechanisms for reconciling multiple ethics systems, potential national or subnational regulatory solutions and finally, the ethics of sustainability. Through perspectives of value and analyses of justice, these reports conceptualise the relationship between the existing economic activity and stakeholders’ ethical perspectives and criteria of sustainable development goals to make recommendations on legal and regulatory pathways towards just and ethical sustainable development in the Arctic.