Climate Change and Arctic Security

Lassi Heininen is the Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, Research Director at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Professor of International Relations at Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia, and Professor of Arctic Politics at the University of Lapland (retired). He is the author of over 300 scientific publications including The Global Arctic Handbook (2018), Future Security of the Global Arctic: State Policy, Economic Security and Climate (2016), and Security and Sovereignty in the North Atlantic (2014).Heather Exner-Pirot is Research Associate at the Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l'Arctique (OPSA), Canada and the Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook. She has held several positions at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, Canada and the University of the Arctic. She has published extensively on Arctic and northern governance, human security, and Indigenous economic development.

• Introduction. “Theorizing and broadening security”; Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot.- Chapter 1. “Age of changes: threat of climate change and its meaning for security”;Salla Kalliojärvi.- Chapter 2. “China, climate change and international security”; Sanna Kopra.- Chapter 3. “Climate change ethics in the Arctic”; Teemu Palosaari.- Chapter 4. “Cities and human security in a warming Arctic”; Willy Greaves.- Chapter 5. “Between militarization and disarmament: challenges for Arctic security in the 21st century”; Heather Exner-Pirot.- Chapter 6. “Before climate change ‘nuclear safety’ was there – a retrospective study and lessons-to-learn of changing security premises in the Arctic”; Lassi Heininen.- Conclusions; Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot.