Geir Honneland
Biographic Data
| ID | 141293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geir Honneland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geir |
| FAMILY NAME | Honneland |
| SIGNATURE | HONNELAND G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fridtjof Nansen Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Russia, Geopolitics and Fisheries Management
Coastal states have a duty to cooperate on the management of transboundary (shared) fish stocks in order to prevent overexploitation of such stocks. In this article, we examine the history and current state of fisheries management in two European seas, the Barents Sea and the Black Sea, to find out how and why these fishing regions have ended up with widely contrasting management outcomes. In the Barents Sea, the coastal states of Norway and Russ…
Russia and The Arctic
"The world is currently witnessing an Arctic Scramble as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves, and its position at the top of the globe holds significant trading and military advantages. Yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined and Russia, under the increasingly bold foreign policy of Vladimir Putin, has emerged as a forceful power in…
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certification of Arctic Fisheries
Certification according to private sustainability standards (ecolabelling) has become an important addition to public fisheries management in recent years. The major global ecolabel in terms of comprehensiveness and coverage is the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard. Under the MSC Standard, the status of the fishery’s target stocks, its impact on the wider ecosystem and the effectiveness of its management system are assessed. Bec…
Centre-periphery Relations in Russia
Arctic Euphoria and International High North Politics
Geopolitics and International Governance in the Arctic
The Arctic has been the object of heated political discussion in recent years as the region has evolved from a potential conflict zone during the Cold War to an arena for international cooperation immediately afterwards. Since the mid-2000s attention has once again focused on the conflict potential of the Arctic, this time related to its resources. This article looks at how the research literature balances its prospects. The literature on interna…
Russia and the Arctic
The world is currently witnessing an ‘Arctic Scramble’ – as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves, and its position at the top of the globe holds significant trading and military advantages. Yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined and Russia, under the increasingly bold foreign policy of Vladimir Putin, has emerged as a forceful power…
Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic
The Arctic has again become one of the leading issues on the international foreign policy agenda, in a manner unseen since the Cold War. Drawing on the perspectives of geopolitics and international law, this Handbook offers fresh insights and perspectives on the most pressing issues, grouped under the headings of political ascendancy, climate and environmental issues, resources and energy, and the response and policies of affected countries
Arctic Politics, the Law of the Sea and Russian Identity
This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea and Russian identity, arguing that the agreement's critics and proponents i
Norway and Russia
The Barents Sea contains some of the most valuable fish resources in the world, including the world’s largest cod stock. Since the mid-1970s, Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia have managed the most important stocks in the area together, through the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission. During the 1990s, the precautionary approach was adopted as the leading device for global fisheries management, introducing a requirement for additional p…
The Politics of the Arctic
The Arctic ice cap is melting and scientists are uncertain about how this will affect ecosystems. At the same time, the Arctic is the object of heated political discussion. Who shall extract the oil when the ice disappears? How are marine delimitation lines established? Who will control the new sea routes that are opening up? Who actually owns the Arctic? This research review by a leading academic in the field, brings together some of the most au…
Tore Jakobsen og Vladimir K. Ozhigin
In cod we trust
In Cod We Trust: Trends in Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Cooperation This article outlines the development of the bilateral Norwegian–Russian fisheries management regime since its establishment in the mid-1970s and discusses how fisheries cooperation in the post-Soviet period has been influenced by three factors external to the regime: the political climate between Russia and the West, Norwegian–Russian cooperation in the commercial sphere and the …
Tomi Huttunen & Mikko Ylikangas (red.)
Elisabeth Angell, Sveinung Eikeland og Per Selle (red.)
Framing the High North
The article presents an overview of the main public debates in Norway that can be said to have framed and defined the High North since the turn of the Millennium. It is based on a qualitative study of over 3000 articles published in four Norwegian newspapers issued between 2000 and 2006. Our discussion is structured around three overarching, interconnected narratives that we think capture the essence of the Norwegian public discourses on the High…
Borderland Russians
Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Pen
Norge og Russland
Norway and Russia: Back to Normality The Norwegian-Russian relationship from the time of the Soviet collapse in 1991 to the present is discussed in this article. It is argued that in a historical perspec- tive, the 1990s must be understood as an anomaly or, alternatively, a state of emer- gency. With the post-Soviet economy in ruins, previously unthinkable opportuni- ties began to open up. It is asserted that this state of emergency has now come …
East-West Collaboration in the European North
Since the end of the Cold War, a flourishing network of coUaboration has grown up between Russia and its neighbouring Nordic countries in the European north. The Barents Euro-Arctic region (BEAR) was established in 1993 by several north European states and regional administrative entities in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Its aim is to promote relations across the old east-west divide in the European north, and to enable joint projects in s…
Kommentarer til Stortingsmeldingen «Interesser, ansvar og muligheter
Miljøpersepsjoner i Nordvest-Russland – Problemoppfatninger knyttet til petroleumsutbygging i Barentshavet
Law and Politics in Ocean Governance
Administrativ reform i Russland
International Cooperation and Arctic Governance
1. Introduction 2. Examining the Consequences of Arctic Institutions 3. Arctic Indigenous Regimes: Indigenous Issues in the Arctic Council and the BEAR 4. Communicable Disease Control 5. Pollution and Conservation 6. Climate Change 7. Oil, Gas and the Environment 8. International Institutions and Arctic Governance
Law and politics in ocean governance
Identity Formation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region
The Barents Euro-Arctic Region was established in 1993 to further security objectives in the European North. In order to reach the superior goal of maintaining stability in the area, it is a declared aim to create an identity region with people from all parts of it conceiving of themselves as `us' as opposed to `them' outside. The common history of the populations in the area as well as their similar geographical frame of reference are emphasized…
Framing the High North
The article presents an overview of the main public debates in Norway that can be said to have framed and defined the High North since the turn of the Millennium. It is based on a qualitative study of over 3000 articles published in four Norwegian newspapers issued between 2000 and 2006. Our discussion is structured around three overarching, interconnected narratives that we think capture the essence of the Norwegian public discourses on the High…
Industrial Pollution Discourse in the European Arctic
This article reviews the environmental interface between Russia and Norway in the European Arctic, defining major discourses in the two countries pertaining to industrial pollution. Metaphors and story lines, catching certain aspects of a problem in a simple and understandable manner, are essential in defining the range for political action. Calling the Kola Peninsula a "black desert" and the clouds drifting from Russia into Scandinavia "death cl…
Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia
The article discusses implementation of Russia's international obligations in fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control. Empirical evidence is taken from the country's northwestern region. A main theoretical question is to what extent the observed level of compliance with international agreements can be explained by the nature of the problem and agreements at hand, and by the implementation activities of public authorities an…
Implementing Russia's International Environmental Commitments
How DO THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES GO ABOUT implementing their international environmental obligations? This question implies that implementation is here understood as the political processes taking place at the national, and possibly the sub-national, level after the conclusion of agreements or establishment of regimes at the international level. In the literature on international environmental agreements, processes at the domestic level are receivi…
Cooperative action between fishermen and inspectors in the Svalbard Zone
This article demonstrates that, similar to the many cases of self-regulation of local commons, it is in certain conditions also possible to manage an international ocean-fishery without the use of direct coercion. The case study from the Svalbard Zone supports the argument of cooperative action theory: that a limited number of participants, rules at least partly designed by the users themselves, and a system of graduated punishment contribute to …
Interaction of Research Programmes in Social Science Studies of the Commons
Social science studies of the commons are characterized by two relatively clear-cut theoretical traditions, here labelled 'the tragedy of the commons' and 'co-operative action theory'. These differ substantially both in their basic assumptions and epistemological prescriptions; or 'hard cores' and 'protective belts', to use Lakatos's (1974) tools for evaluating scientific research programmes. It is suggested that 'the tragedy of the commons' trad…
Norway and Russia
The Barents Sea contains some of the most valuable fish resources in the world, including the world’s largest cod stock. Since the mid-1970s, Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia have managed the most important stocks in the area together, through the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission. During the 1990s, the precautionary approach was adopted as the leading device for global fisheries management, introducing a requirement for additional p…
Elisabeth Angell, Sveinung Eikeland og Per Selle (red.)
East-West Collaboration in the European North
Since the end of the Cold War, a flourishing network of coUaboration has grown up between Russia and its neighbouring Nordic countries in the European north. The Barents Euro-Arctic region (BEAR) was established in 1993 by several north European states and regional administrative entities in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Its aim is to promote relations across the old east-west divide in the European north, and to enable joint projects in s…
Miljøpersepsjoner i Nordvest-Russland – Problemoppfatninger knyttet til petroleumsutbygging i Barentshavet
Western versus post-Soviet medicine
Western governments and international organizations have since the late 1990s been involved in efforts to combat tuberculosis and HIV in north-west Russia and the Baltic states, and reform the post-Soviet healthcare system. WHO's tuberculosis strategy DOTS encountered fierce resistance in the Russian tuberculosis establishment, but has been implemented in the north-western rim regions in Russia and all Baltic states. While many view Western aid a…
Identity Formation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region
The Barents Euro-Arctic Region was established in 1993 to further security objectives in the European North. In order to reach the superior goal of maintaining stability in the area, it is a declared aim to create an identity region with people from all parts of it conceiving of themselves as `us' as opposed to `them' outside. The common history of the populations in the area as well as their similar geographical frame of reference are emphasized…
Co-Management and Communities in the Barents Sea Fisheries
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Geir Hønneland; Co-Management and Communities in the Barents Sea Fisheries. Human Organization 1 December 1999; 58 (4): 397–404. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.58.4.x240764109640867 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manag…
Cooperative action between fishermen and inspectors in the Svalbard Zone
This article demonstrates that, similar to the many cases of self-regulation of local commons, it is in certain conditions also possible to manage an international ocean-fishery without the use of direct coercion. The case study from the Svalbard Zone supports the argument of cooperative action theory: that a limited number of participants, rules at least partly designed by the users themselves, and a system of graduated punishment contribute to …
Interaction of Research Programmes in Social Science Studies of the Commons
Social science studies of the commons are characterized by two relatively clear-cut theoretical traditions, here labelled 'the tragedy of the commons' and 'co-operative action theory'. These differ substantially both in their basic assumptions and epistemological prescriptions; or 'hard cores' and 'protective belts', to use Lakatos's (1974) tools for evaluating scientific research programmes. It is suggested that 'the tragedy of the commons' trad…
The Stories Fishermen Tell
Center‐Periphery relations in Russia's European north 1
Two Norwegian researchers examine the post‐Soviet evolution of decision‐making authority between the regions of Northwest Russia (Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, Murmansk Oblast, and Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and the Russian Federation government in Moscow, with particular attention to the arena of natural resource use and management. The authors document an ongoing struggle for authority (including the right to allocate quotas for the fi…
Centre-periphery relations in Russia
General development trends in law, politics and economy: relations between Moscow and the regions of northwestern Russia - the legal aspect the Russian regionalization process - decentralization by design or disintegration by default? Russian regions in transition - centralization through decentralization? Sectoral studies - resource management and military presence: offshore developments - the compatability of federal decisions and regional conc…
Implementing Russia's International Environmental Commitments
How DO THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES GO ABOUT implementing their international environmental obligations? This question implies that implementation is here understood as the political processes taking place at the national, and possibly the sub-national, level after the conclusion of agreements or establishment of regimes at the international level. In the literature on international environmental agreements, processes at the domestic level are receivi…
Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia
This systematic study considers how international environmental agreements are transformed into political action in Russia, using three illuminating case studies on the implementation process in the fields of fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control. It develops the social science debate on international environmental regimes and "implementing activities" at both national and international level to include regional considera…
Russia and the West
Hønneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution
Russia's Northern Fishery Basin
This paper reviews the most important changes that have taken place in Russia's Northern fishery basin—the largest fishery in European Russia and a mainstay of northwest Russia's economy—since the break-up of the Soviet Union. The authors first discuss the influence on fisheries management of various federal and regional bodies of governance. They then discuss the effects of the chosen regulation strategies on the structure of the fishing fleet, …
Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia
The article discusses implementation of Russia's international obligations in fisheries management, nuclear safety and air pollution control. Empirical evidence is taken from the country's northwestern region. A main theoretical question is to what extent the observed level of compliance with international agreements can be explained by the nature of the problem and agreements at hand, and by the implementation activities of public authorities an…
Industrial Pollution Discourse in the European Arctic
This article reviews the environmental interface between Russia and Norway in the European Arctic, defining major discourses in the two countries pertaining to industrial pollution. Metaphors and story lines, catching certain aspects of a problem in a simple and understandable manner, are essential in defining the range for political action. Calling the Kola Peninsula a "black desert" and the clouds drifting from Russia into Scandinavia "death cl…
Russia and the West
Honneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution."--Publisher's description
Fish Discourse
The article argues that discourse analysis can help explain why Russian and Norwegian fishery authorities set quotas for the Northeast Arctic cod far above scientific recommendations in 1999–2001. While the “sustainability discourse” dominated on the Norwegian side—framing discussions in terms of whether quotas were “sustainable” or not—the Russian discourse centered around the battle between the two nations involved. According to the “cold peace…
Nuclear safety discourse in the European Arctic
The article outlines discourses surrounding the emergence and implementation of the Norwegian Plan of Action for nuclear safety in northwestern Russia. The launching of the Plan of Action was facilitated by the ‘Barents euphoria discourse,’ which held optimistic views of a general clean-up in northwestern Russia with the help of infrastructure financed by the Nordic side, and the ‘nuclear disaster discourse,’ hinging on the idea of a ‘ticking tim…
Federal Environmental Governance and the Russian North
The paper explores Russia's environmental politics at the federal level, with a particular view to the consequences for the country's northerly regions. It investigates the goals of the federal authorities in the field of environmental protection, and their ability to translate these into political action at the regional level in the Russian North. After a brief outline of Soviet environmental politics, the “green wave” of the 1980s and the setba…
Western versus post-Soviet medicine
Western governments and international organizations have since the late 1990s been involved in efforts to combat tuberculosis and HIV in north-west Russia and the Baltic states, and reform the post-Soviet healthcare system. WHO's tuberculosis strategy DOTS encountered fierce resistance in the Russian tuberculosis establishment, but has been implemented in the north-western rim regions in Russia and all Baltic states. While many view Western aid a…
Law and Politics in Ocean Governance
Administrativ reform i Russland
International Cooperation and Arctic Governance
1. Introduction 2. Examining the Consequences of Arctic Institutions 3. Arctic Indigenous Regimes: Indigenous Issues in the Arctic Council and the BEAR 4. Communicable Disease Control 5. Pollution and Conservation 6. Climate Change 7. Oil, Gas and the Environment 8. International Institutions and Arctic Governance
Law and politics in ocean governance
Miljøpersepsjoner i Nordvest-Russland – Problemoppfatninger knyttet til petroleumsutbygging i Barentshavet
Kommentarer til Stortingsmeldingen «Interesser, ansvar og muligheter
Borderland Russians
Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Pen
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