Full table of contents

Title page

1 Introduction
	1.1 Opportunities
	1.2 Challenges
	1.3 Goals
	1.4 Means
	1.5 Intensified efforts in the High North
2 Central features of the High North policy
	2.1 From polar exploration to petroleum
	2.2 A new security policy focus
	2.3 Oil and gas
	2.4 Fisheries
	2.5 Environmental protection
	2.6 Transport
	2.7 Integrated management of the marine environment
	2.8 Business co-operation
	2.9 Knowledge base
	2.10 Indigenous peoples
	2.11 Svalbard
3 Issues of international law
	3.1 Delimitation of the continental shelf and the 200-mile zones in the Barents Sea
	3.2 The outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 miles
	3.3 The Fisheries Protection Zone around Svalbard
	3.4 Protection of the marine environment in the High North
4 Co-operation on nuclear safety
	4.1 Norway’s aims and priorities
	4.2 The main challenges
	4.3 A framework for co-operation with Russia
5 Regional co-operation in the North
	5.1 The Barents Co-operation
	5.2 The Arctic Council
	5.3 Other co-operation arrangements
6 A coherent Norwegian High North policy
	6.1 Dialogues on the High North
	6.2 Bilateral co-operation with Russia
	6.3 The Barents Co-operation and the Arctic Council
	6.4 Knowledge base
	6.5 Improved co-ordination
7 Economic and administrative consequences
Annex 1