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This contribution is an analysis of how the rights of the Sámi to engage in reindeer husbandry are guaranteed in the green transition to renewable energy in Sweden. Consideration of the increasing number of court decisions addressing the impacts of wind energy on reindeer husbandry in Sweden raises significant questions about the fairness of the transition to sustainable development. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the impacts of wind energy on reindeer husbandry and uncover the justice issues raised by this development. Drawing on the discourse of just transition that includes distributional, procedural and recognition considerations, this analysis more specifically examines the distributive effects of the development of wind energy on reindeer husbandry and identifies how Sámi reindeer herders are included and their status and human rights as an Indigenous people recognised within this process. On this basis, the conclusion from this study is that systemic reforms of the Swedish system that take due consideration of the human rights of the Sámi as an Indigenous people must be implemented in order to ensure a transition to sustainable development that equally benefits Sámi reindeer herders and can therefore provide justice for all.

After a period of relative neglect in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Arctic is back on the agenda of the Russian authorities. To ensure efficient coordination and implementation of its Arctic strategy, the government in 2015 established a State Commission for Arctic Development. It was to serve as a platform for coordinating the implementation of the government's ambitious plans for the Arctic, for exchange of information among Arctic actors, and for ironing out interagency and interregional conflicts. Based on a case study of the State Commission for Arctic Development, this article has a twofold goal. First, it explores the current Russian domestic Arctic agenda, mapping key actors and priorities and examining the results achieved so far. Second, it discusses what this case study may tell us the about policy formulation and implementation in Russia today. We find that while the government's renewed focus on the Arctic Zone has yielded some impressive results, the State Commission has been at best a mixed success. The case study demonstrates how, in the context of authoritarian modernization, the Russian government struggles to come up with effective and efficient institutions for Arctic governance. Moreover, the widespread image of a Russian governance model based on a strictly hierarchic "power vertical" must be modified. Russia's Arctic policy agenda is characterized by infighting and bureaucratic obstructionism: even when Putin intervenes personally, achieving the desired goals can prove difficult.

The Arctic Council Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) recently released a report on the blue bioeconomy in the Arctic. In this paper, we discuss the Norwegian policy to promote the Norwegian blue bioeconomy, analysing the government's bioeconomy strategy and its strategy for marine residuals. We find that the strategies have several and partly incompatible goals, related to improving the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of the seafood sector. We discuss challenges and (missed) opportunities in the Norwegian government's strategy for turning the Norwegian economy towards blue growth. Our findings are supported by recent studies that conclude that more efficient and coherent policy actions are needed to ensure the sustainability of the marine bioeconomy.

Mineral extraction is pursued in Greenland to strengthen the national economy. In order that new industries promote sustainable development, environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments are legally required and undertaken by companies prior to license approval to inform decision-making. Knowledge systems in Arctic indigenous communities have evolved through adaptive processes over generations, and indigenous knowledge (IK) is considered a great source of information on local environments and related ecosystem services. In Greenland the Inuit are in the majority, and Greenlanders are still considered indigenous. The Inuit Circumpolar Council stresses that utilizing IK is highly relevant in the Greenland context. Impact assessment processes involve stakeholder engagement and public participation, and hence offer arenas for potential knowledge sharing and thereby the utilization of IK. Based on the assumption that IK is a valuable knowledge resource, which can supplement and improve impact assessments in Greenland thus supporting sustainable development, this paper presents an investigation of how IK is utilized in the last stages of an impact assessment process when the final report is subject to a hearing in three recent mining projects in Greenland.

"The purpose of this anthology is to show different perspectives on epistemology, research roles and contexts in action research. Contributors are researchers who have extensive experience in combining practice development and knowledge development in action research projects.

Several of the articles focus on the epistemological and methodological basis of action research and dilemmas related to the role of the researcher. Questions concerning the purpose of action research, methods of change, and what kind of knowledge is to be developed by and for whom are discussed. Some of the articles explore challenges that are about fundamental values, power, democracy, and dialogue in action research.

The articles also provide examples of how action research can be carried out in different contexts. Some articles are about researching your own practice, possibly with colleagues, students or other partners. There are also examples that show how researchers at universities are invited into ongoing research work e.g. in schools, health institutions, local communities or companies. The researchers contribute in various ways to facilitate the development process, with professional input, and with documentation.

Combining development and research, regardless of context, requires researchers to explain their position, and in collaboration with the participants clarify what roles or functions the participants should have and what is the goal of the development and research. An important issue in the anthology is to point out that action research as collaborative research will necessarily involve dilemmas related to power, values and different views on knowledge. We hope that the anthology will help to raise awareness of such dilemmas." - "Hensikten med denne antologien er å vise ulike perspektiver på grunnlagstenkning, ulike forskerroller og ulike kontekster for aksjonsforskning. Bidragsytere er forskere som har lang erfaring med å kombinere praksisutvikling og kunnskapsutvikling i aksjonsforskningsprosjekter.

Flere av artiklene retter søkelyset mot det epistemologiske og metodologiske grunnlaget i aksjonsforskning og dilemmaer knyttet til forskerrollen. Spørsmål som gjelder aksjonsforskningens hensikt, metoder for endring og hva slags kunnskap som skal utvikles og dokumenteres av og for hvem blir diskutert. Noen av artiklene utforsker utfordringer som handler om grunnleggende verdier, makt, demokrati og dialog i aksjonsforskning.

Artiklene gir også eksempler på hvordan aksjonsforskning kan gjennomføres i ulike kontekster. Noen handler om å forske i egen praksis, eventuelt sammen med kolleger, studenter eller andre samarbeidspartnere. Det er også eksempler som viser hvordan forskere ved universiteter og høgskoler blir invitert inn i pågående forbedringsarbeid, for eksempel i skoler, helseinstitusjoner, kommuner og bedrifter. Forskerne bidrar på ulike måter med å fasilitere utviklingsprosessen, med faglige innspill og med dokumentasjon.

Å kombinere utvikling og forskning krever uansett kontekst at forskere redegjør for sin posisjon og i samarbeid med deltakerne avklarer hvilke roller eller funksjoner deltakerne skal ha og hva som er målet med utviklingen og forskningen. Et viktig anliggende i antologien er å få fram at aksjonsforskning som samarbeidende forskning nødvendigvis vil innebære dilemmaer knyttet til makt, verdier og ulike syn på kunnskap. Vi håper antologien vil bidra til å styrke oppmerksomheten på slike dilemmaer."

In 2017, the The International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code) – a set of function-based regulations applicable to Arctic and Antarctic waters, with the goal of increasing awareness and improving safety for ship operations in polar waters – entered into force. This article examines the Polar Code's contribution to the establishment of new standards and guidelines, with the problem under discussion being the extent to which the function-based regulations contribute to enhancing safety for ship operations in the Arctic, given that maritime activities in these waters are associated with great risks and uncertainties. The article gives a historical review, elucidating the background leading to the development of the Polar Code, followed by a review of the structure and key principles of the regulations. Further, ship traffic in the Arctic region and those subject to the Polar Code are examined, followed by a summary of findings and experiences from three survival exercises (SARex I, II and III), performed in northern areas around Svalbard between 2016 and 2018. The article concludes that safe ship operations depend on those subject to the regulations conducting thorough operational risk assessments that cover all potential hazards, in order to mitigate sufficiently. Further, the presence of authorities is found to be crucial, with validation of the adequacy and the dimensioning of the implemented measures being of the essence.

This study has developed a tool for explaining why employees fail to speak up with regard to work related criticism; there is a hidden policy of silence that teaches employees to remain silent. This hidden policy is here designated as the "Curriculum Silentium" and is described in detail on the basis of empirical and theoretical data. After identifying a gap between the intentionally and experienced policy for employees freedom of speech in organizations I suggest that there are on-going unofficial, partially hidden learning processes in the organizations. The overall research question is; How does the Curriculum Silentium; the hidden policy of silence among employees, look like? I make an analytic construction of the hidden policy as if it were planned policy, using the didactic categories applicable to organizations. These didactic categories are: goals, content, teaching strategies and the motivation of employees. The empirical data was collected in three different organizations: an elementary school, a home for the elderly and a factory in the process industry, using qualitative methods such as interviews and observation. The theoretical foundation of the study is taken from existing theory within the field of work life research and educational science. The study is not a comparative study of the three organizations, but does involve a comparison of whether and how the Curriculum Silentium is expressed in three such different organizations. The challenge of examining hidden relationships in organizations was met through the development of guidelines for an analytical approach called a critical didactic relations analysis. The study concludes that a hidden policy of silence resembling that presented here exists in organizations where employees fail to voice working life related criticism.

"How much room to manoeuvre do administrators of municipal social services feel they have in meeting organizational objectives? How much latitude do staff in these services have to utilize their own expertise in performing tasks? What challenges do welfare services face due to cultural diversity? Can new ways of working contribute to increased learning for students in the practice field? These are among the questions addressed in this book, in which challenges associated with maintaining society's objectives in municipal health, care and child welfare services are focused on. The goal is to provide the reader with insight into degree of latitude pratictioners have when seeking to utilize their own expertise in the context of their job.

The book is a collection of ten scholarly articles that, via new empirical studies and theoretical contributions, shed light on manoeuvering room within the practical fulfilment of professional welfare services in the two main municipal healthcare and child welfare organizations. Both services must comply with public regulatory measures in an increasingly more complex field; both are therefore examined in the same anthology.

Latitude in Professional Welfare Administration is directed primarily toward students in nursing, child welfare and social education, but may be of interest to students in other health and caregiving fields as well. Employees within municipal health and family services including child welfare services, and politicians involved in development within this sector, will also find this anthology useful.

The anthology's editors are Bente Lilljan Lind Kassah, professor of sociology at UiT The Arctic university of Norway in Harstad; Hilde Nordahl-Pedersen, assistant professor at UiT The Arctic university of Norway in Harstad; and Wivi-Ann Tingvoll, docent emerita at UiT The Arctic university of Norway in Narvik." - "Hvordan opplever ledere handlingsrommet for å ivareta kommunale tjenesters samfunnsoppdrag? Hvilket handlingsrom har ansatte når de skal benytte sin kompetanse for å løse oppgaver? Hvordan utfordres tjenesteutøvelsen av kulturelt mangfold? Kan nye arbeidsmåter bidra til å styrke studenters læring i praksisfeltet? Dette er spørsmål som tas opp i denne boken, der utfordringer knyttet til ivaretakelse av samfunnsoppdraget i de kommunale helse-, omsorg- og barneverntjenestene står sentralt. Hensikten er å gi leseren innblikk i tjenesteutøvernes handlingsrom når de søker å benytte sin kompetanse i tjenesteutøvelsen.

Boken samler ti vitenskapelige artikler som gjennom nye empiriske studier og teoretiske bidrag belyser handlingsrommet for tjenesteutøvelse av profesjonalisert velferd i kommunal helse- og omsorgstjeneste og kommunalt barnevern. Begge tjenestene skal imøtekomme offentlige myndigheters føringer i et stadig mer komplekst praksisfelt, og de belyses derfor i samme antologi.

Handlingsrom for profesjonalisert velferd er primært rettet mot studenter i sykepleie, barnevern og vernepleie, men kan også være aktuell for andre studenter innenfor helse- og omsorgsarbeid. Ansatte i kommunal helse- og omsorgstjeneste samt kommunalt barnevern og politikere som har innflytelse over utviklingen innenfor helse- og omsorgssektoren, vil også kunne ha nytte av å lese antologien.

Redaktører for antologien er Bente Lilljan Lind Kassah, professor i sosiologi ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Harstad, Hilde Nordahl-Pedersen, amanuensis ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Harstad, og Wivi-Ann Tingvoll, dosent emerita ved UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet i Narvik."