Section 1: Introduction

• Preface - Hannu Halinen
• Introduction - Change & Innovation in the Arctic - Heather Exner-Pirot, Lassi Heininen & Joël Plouffe
• This Year in the Arctic: Timeline of 2017 Events - Joël Plouffe

Section 2: Thinking Arctic Innovation

• Towards Innovation (Eco)Systems: Enhancing the Public Value of Scientific Research in the Canadian Arctic - Ashlee-Ann Pigford, Gordon Hickey & Laurens Klerkx
• Inventing the New North: Patents & Knowledge Economy in Alaska - Salma O. Zbeed & Andrey N. Petrov
• Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights in the Arctic - Robert P. Wheelersburg & Sean Melvin
• Northern Peripheries & Creative Capital: The Nature of Creative Capital & Its Role in Contributing to Regional Development in Nordic Regions - Aisling Murtagh & Patrick Collins
• Narrating Identities Through Art-Making on the Margins: The Case of Two Workshops in the Arctic - Daria Akimenko, Melanie Sarantou & Satu Miettinen
• Developing Metrics to Guide Sustainable Development of Arctic Cities: Progress & Challenges - Luis Suter, Carrie Schaffner, Carlson Giddings, Robert Orttung & Dmitry Streletskiy
• Urban Planning in the Arctic: Historic Uses & the Potential for a Resilient Urban Future - Melissa Jane Kenny

Commentaries

• New Publication: N.Y. Zamyatina & A.N. Pelyasov (2017). Regional Consulting: Invitation for Creativity. Saint-Petersburg: Mamatov Publishing House - Alexander Pelyasov

Section 3: Creative Collaboration

• Collaboration Across the Arctic: A Tool of Regionalization or Simple Pragmatism? - Verena Gisela Huppert & Romain François R. Chuffart
• Building Academic Research Capacity Among Indigenous Youth: A Participatory Health Research Project with Students at Chief Julius School in Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, Canada - Megan J. Highet, Amy Colquhoun, Karen J. Goodman, the Fort McPherson H. pylori Project Planning Committee, & the CANHelp Working Group
• Digital Environmental Storytelling Connecting to the Arctic: #60Above60 Pilot - Laura C. Engel, Mary E. Short, Sarah E. Jennings, Robert W. Orttung & Luis J. Suter
• Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) – A Framework Program on the Land–Atmosphere–Ocean–Society Interactions of the Changing Arctic–Boreal Environments - Hanna K. Lappalainen, V.M. Kerminen, T. Petäjä, J. Bäck, T. Vesala, T. Vihma, T. Haapala, A. Mahura, A. Baklanov, R. Makkonen, A. Lauri, V-P. Tynkkynen, G. de Leeuw, P. Konstantinov, N. Kasimov, V. Bondur, V. Melnikov, S. Zilitinkevich, & M. Kulmala

Briefing Notes

• The Arctic Resilience Action Framework: A New Paradigm for Regional Cooperation to Build Resilience - Sarah Abdelrahim & Joel Clement
• Innovations for the Arctic Through Cross-border Cooperation - Ekaterina Shlapeko

Commentaries

• Encouraging Arctic Cross-Border Entrepreneurship Through Collaborative Creative Steps 2.0 Methodology - Anzelika Krastina & Anitra Arkko
• The Arctic in the Research of the Luzin Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KSC RAS) - Larissa Riabova

Section 4: Arctic Change & Innovation in Practice

• Pediatric Health Care Services in the Arctic regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Medico-demographic Indicators Particularly in the Delivery of Health Care - Tatiana Burtseva, Vyacheslav G. Chasnyk, Antonina N. Grigoreva & Natalya I. Douglas
• The Information Community of the Arctic in Russia: Evaluation of the Expenses for the IT Projects Development, Characteristics of the Labor Costs Calculating - Ivan V. Evdokimov, Alexander S. Khaluimov, Nikita V. Sokolov & Sergey E. Golokhvastov
• ‘Future Games’: Enacting Innovation in Greenland - Carina Ren & Rasmus Kjærgaard Rasmussen

Briefing Notes

• Submarine Cables: Bringing Broadband Internet to the Arctic, a Life Changer for Northerners? - Michael Delaunay

Commentaries

• Social Media for Health in Nunavik - Marie-Claude Lyonnais & Christopher Fletcher
• Telemedicine & e-Health in the Russian Arctic - Yury Sumarokov

Section 5: Arctic Resource & Development

• Environmental & Human Impact of the Northern Sea Route & Industrial Development in Russia’s Arctic Zone - Diana Dushkova, Tatyana Krasovskaya & Alexander Evseev
• Managing the Barents Sea: Comparing Norwegian & Russian Offshore Oil-Spill Prevention Policies - Troy J. Bouffard
• Part of the Master Plan? Chinese Investment in Rare Earth Mining in Greenland - Jesper Zeuthen
• The Changing Arctic & the Development of Hokkaido - Juha Saunavaara
• The Political Economy of Arctic Reality Television: The Spatial Communication of Ice Road Truckers & Deadliest Catch - Derek Moscato
• The Economic Development of Arctic Shipping: A Systematic Literature Review - Florian Gauthier

Briefing Notes

• Developing Hydrocarbon Resources in Arctic Russia: The Role of Sino-Russian Collaboration - Anastasia Ufimtseva & Tahnee Prior

Commentaries

• Missing the Obvious in Arctic Shipping Regulations: A Maritime Lawyer’s Observation from Svalbard - Ilker Basaran
• Evolutionary Innovation in Arctic Marine Transportation - Lawson W. Brigham

Section 6: Arctic Governance & Institutions

• The 2015 Oslo Declaration on Arctic High Seas Fisheries: The Starting Point Towards Future Fisheries Management in the Central Arctic Ocean - Dan Liu
• Legal ‘Arctopia’? How Arctic Governance Expresses a Better World - Nikolas Sellheim, Leilei Zou & Osamu Inagaki

Briefing Notes

• Optimizing EU Influence on Arctic Affairs - Morgane Fert-Malka & Alexandra Kekkonen
• The Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation: From Paper to Practice - Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek

Commentaries

• Canada & the Arctic - Andrea Charron
• Finnish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council - Aleksi Härkönen
• The Paris Agreement & the Arctic Region - Lotta Manninen
• Calotte Academy 2017: Perceptions of the Arctic: Rich or Scarce, Mass-scale or Traditional, Conflict or Cooperation? - Jussi Huotari & Salla Kalliojärvi