Arctic Human Development Report II

Preparation of AHDR-II has commenced to identify major trends that have taken place in the region since AHDR-I was published in 2004 as a “priority project” to provide a “comprehensive knowledge base” for the work of the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Programme. The significance of AHDR-I cannot be understated as it was the first to systematically provide social science baseline data on human development in the Arctic, which was till then primarily the attention of the physical/natural sciences. AHDR-II will formally commence at the beginning of 2012 and promises to be even more important from the legal point of view, with Nigel Bankes and Timo Koivurova preparing the associated chapter, when completed by the end of 2013.