For several years now climate change, the hunger for raw materials, and geostrategic interests have once again moved the allocation of sovereignty and exploitation rights in the Arctic back to the foreground. In HSFK Report No. 4/2011 Vom Meltdown zum Showdown? Herausforderungen und Optionen für Governance in der Arktis (First Meltdown, then Showdown? Challenges and options for governance in the Arctic) Christoph Humrich and Klaus Dieter Wolf presentin search of a promising political organizational model for the Arctic region, various scenarios for how Arctic governance might look one day.
The authors favor a model of integrated multi-level governance and present measures demonstrating how this model could be implemented.
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