management into on-the-ground practices in domestic settings. Building on an extensive study of forest certification in Russia, I … argue that implementation is not a straightforward execution of transnational rules imposed by powerful transnational actors … natural resource management and construct new knowledge related to standard implementation and good natural resource …

as incentives. This route to implementation of regional developmental aims reinforces Russia’s current oil and gas …Oil and gas extraction remains a cornerstone in Russia’s development plans for the Arctic Zone, even as there are … traffic for the Northern Sea Route to show how Russia’s elites respond to constraints on Arctic development. It is argued that …