| Summary: | The Arctic regions belong to different national regimes, and information on social and economic issues has been dispersed and not been easily available at the circumpolar level. A central task of the ECONOR III project has been to contribute to filling this gap by presenting a comprehensive overview of the scale and structure of the circumpolar Arctic economy. Among several good reasons for compiling an overview of the circumpolar Arctic economy is a need for an information platform from where to assess the sustainability of the Arctic communities in terms of natural wealth management and vulnerability towards climate change and global policies and trends. The Economy of the North 2015 report finalizes the ECONOR III project which has been headed by Statistics Norway, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) and Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, in cooperation with a circumpolar network of statisticians and academics. The purpose of this third report has been to update the economic statistics of the previous versions, The Economy of the North, published in 2006, and The Economy of the North 2008, and to include a wider set of socioeconomic variables to more clearly depict the livelihood of Arctic people. Other objectives have been to shed light on the value of natural resources in the Arctic and to bring forward knowledge about how indigenous peoples manoeuvre between subsistence activities and the market economy.
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