Barents Area

Murmansk, Russia Describing the Barents Area The Barents Region was defined in 1993 as an area of political cooperation between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, but, for the purposes of this report, it is extended northwards to include Svalbard and Franz Josef Land in the High Arctic, eastwards to incorporate Yamalo-Nenets, and includes the Barents Sea, to constitute the Barents study area (se [...] Climate change in the Barents area The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe, and is projected to continue to do so for some time to come. [...] In the four countries of the Barents area, a large Economic growth proportion of the population already The economic performance of the live in urban areas. [...] The age composition of in 2015 although, at 11 percent, the Federation, in contrast, the resource- the population and the ability to rate of growth will only be half of the rich northern regions have the integrate immigrants will thus have national average. [...] The future prospects of the Barents area, however, will The small, open Nordic economies have historically depend to a large extent on the development of its extractive been quick to adapt to new economic and technological industries and the tax regimes and government expenditures conditions.