Benefit Sharing in the Arctic: Extractive Industries and Arctic People

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive view of the benefit sharing and compensation mechanisms for the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic due to industrial development.

The editors welcome papers within the following topics:

1. Benefit-sharing frameworks in the Arctic.
2. Corporate social responsibility and the benefit sharing of extractive industries in the Arctic.
3. Benefit sharing and international and national legislation.
4. The practice of implementing legislation to support Indigenous and local interests.
5. The methodology for assessing the losses of indigenous peoples of the North and mechanisms for their compensation.

Dr. Maria Tysiachniouk
Assoc. Prof. Andrey Petrov
Prof. Dr. Violetta Gassiy
Guest Editors

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