ABSTRACT
The ongoing transformations occurring in Arctic regions are deeply intertwined with regional and global processes, since the Arctic is both affecting and being affected by broader regional and global processes reaching beyond its southern borders. Beyond history, scholarly work on Arctic international relations and Arctic governance has focused on linking Arctic and international scales. This chapter highlights a number of research avenues for studying Arctic sustainable development on different spatial scales and in relation to interconnections within the Arctic and with non-Arctic regions. Research efforts could increasingly focus on understudied issue areas with global–national–regional–local linkages, in order to better understand outlooks and pathways for Arctic sustainable development as well as the Arctic's role in global processes and sustainable development challenges. In addition to the lack of inter-scale studies with a specific focus on sustainability within social sciences, there is a lack of research on multiple scale issue areas involving natural and social processes, as well as humanities.
