The paper is intended to show how the idea of the “blue economy” is conceptualized in the three main Arctic coastal regions: Northern Norway, the Russian Arctic Zone and Alaska (USA). This is done through the example of how fisheries and aquaculture function in these three regions and through an analysis of their official policies. The paper examines the current organization of blue economy management, ...

Den samiske reindriften er basert på reinens naturlige vandringer mellom vinterens lavbeiter i innlandet og sommerens grøntbeiter ved kysten. Etter at landegrensen mellom Norge og Sverige ble fastlagt i 1751, har mange samer måttet krysse statsgrensen med sine dyr for å opprettholde sin næring. Etter unionsoppløsningen i 1905 har den grenseoverskridende reindriften vært gjenstand for forhandlinger, ...

Med knapt flertall (45 mot 42 stemmer) endret Stortinget den 9. februar 2021 grunnsystemet for deltakelse og tildeling av kvoter i ervervsmessig fiske.

This chapter explores how Western higher education (HE) can benefit from the adoption of illustrated storytelling as a methodology to simultaneously dis-empower gender stereotypes and empower persons in academia. Drawing from indigenous law and methodology and participatory approaches as an essential part of the legal methodology, we explore how critical role-playing developed through storytelling ...

Article 234 of UNCLOS is in many ways exceptional, but it is not unique in the sense that it grants to the coastal state “complete” legislative power. Arguably, “complete” coastal state jurisdiction exists in the territorial sea for the purposes enumerated in Article 21(1), allowing coastal states to adopt ship reporting systems, pilotage, and other routing measures unilaterally. The analysis of ...

The ecosystem approach is an increasingly central concept for addressing the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Endorsed in the mid-1990s as the primary framework of action by the Convention of Biological Diversity, it has subsequently gained traction in a variety of fields and contexts, including ocean governance and fisheries management,** thanks to its promise to overcome ...

I Rt. 1975 s. 220 åpnet Høyesterett for at en hjemmeværende ektefelle kunne få medeiendomsrett i ekteparets felles bolig gjennom innsats i hjemmet. I etterkant av dommen har det vært klart at en ektefelle og samboer kan oppnå sameierettigheter gjennom indirekte bidrag til ervervet, såkalt samlivserverv. I denne artikkelen undersøkes det om og eventuelt hvilket vern samlivserverv har mot henholdsvis ...

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The main duty for an ordinary court of law is to settle litigation. The main duty of the land consolidation court, by contrast, concerns land consolidation or severance, which are common terms for processes for improving property structures. The differences in the duties of the two courts have resulted in differences in procedural requirements. This article presents an analysis of differences ...

In this article, the author questions the legitimacy of the general ban on trade in seal products adopted by the European Union. It is submitted that the EU Seal Regime, which permits the marketing of Greenlandic seal products derived from Inuit hunts, but excludes Canadian and Norwegian seal products from the European market, does not ensure a satisfactory degree of animal welfare protection ...