ABSTRACT
The first Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR) emphasized both the need to track human development over time, and the need for a limited set of indicators that reflect key aspects of Arctic human development. Numerous regional-level initiatives for measuring human development have also resulted in proposed indicators. A social and economic indicators project for the Inuvialuit region in northwest Canada was established under the aegis of the large-scale Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) research project. Local efforts to develop indicators for environmental monitoring in the Arctic have also increased with the proliferation of community-based monitoring projects. Challenges to developing sustainable development indicators for the Arctic include data availability and quality issues, but also issues of common definitions for indicators across the Arctic, in order to ensure comparability, and consistent data collection, both across space and time.
