The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre is pleased to announce the publication of three new books. The books are the outcomes of several projects that NIEM has been holding during past years.

The first one entitled “Cybersecurity and Resilience in the
Arctic” is a compilation of contributions from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop
(ARW) Governance for Cyber Security and Resilience in the Arctic. Workshop was held
in Rovaniemi, Finland, in January 2019, and it brought together top scholars in
cybersecurity risk assessment, governance and resilience to discuss potential
analytical and governing strategies and offer perspectives of how to improve
critical Arctic infrastructure against various human and natural threats. The book
provides a background on analytical tools relevant to risk and resilience analytics,
including risk assessment, decision analysis, supply chain management, resilience
analytics.

The second book “Digitalisation and Human
Security A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Cybersecurity in the European High North”
is an outcome of the three year-long research project “Enablement besides
Constraints: Human Security and a Cyber Multi-disciplinary Framework in the European
High North (ECoHuCy)” funded by NordForsk (+ ESRC-UK). The book constructs a
multidisciplinary approach to human security questions related to digitalisation in
the European High North i.e. the northernmost areas of Scandinavia, Finland and
North-Western Russia. It challenges the mainstream conceptualisation of
cybersecurity and reconstructs it with the human being as the referent object of
security. 

The third book “Food Security in the
High North Contemporary Challenges Across the Circumpolar Region” is one of the
products of the project: “Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of
Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the
European High North” funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. The book offers
multidisciplinary insights concerning food security, sustainability, sovereignty,
and supply chains in the Arctic, with a specific focus on Indigenous Peoples. The
book captures the tremendous complexity facing populations of the region as they
strive to maintain sustainable food systems – both subsistent and commercial – and
regain sovereignty over traditional food production policies.

Read more about the books:

Cybersecurity and Resilience in the
Arctic
Edited by Benjamin D. Trump, Kamrul Hossain and Igor
Linkov

Digitalisation and Human Security A Multi-Disciplinary
Approach to Cybersecurity in the European High North 
Edited by Mirva Salminen, Gerald Zojer and Kamrul Hossain

Food Security in the High North Contemporary Challenges
Across the Circumpolar Region
Edited by Kamrul Hossain, Lena
Maria Nilsson & Thora Martina Herrmann

More information: 

Kamrul Hossain
Research Professor 
Arctic Centre,
University of Lapland
kamrul.hossain(at)ulapland.fi