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Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-555/ This report presents new and updated knowledge about Nordic coastal communities and their socio-economic situation. We investigate key structures and value chains in eight coastal communities in Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, and Norway. The report highlights local variations in the interaction between value chains and local resilience and provides a comparative perspective. The report uncovers new trends and important development characteristics for Nordic coastal communities, with diversification, continued household-based activities and person-specific factors found to be key for success in business life and for resilience at the local level. Our results also call into question some of the challenges and conventional truths facing coastal community development in a period where solutions are being sought for sustainability and the climate challenge.

This report concludes work within the Nordic Thematic Group on Sustainable Rural Regional Developmentas part of the Nordic Co-operation Programme on Regional Development 2017-2021. The working title of the project is "A rural perspectiveon spatial disparities of education and employmentoutcomes". Part of the curiosity that drovethis project was to understand better the situation of vulnerable and marginalized youth in rural areas of Norden, which arose from the Nordic Arctic Working Group 2013-2017 where we identified some local and regional processes with serious mismatch problems relating to youth educationand validity in the local and regional labour market. Placing YOUTH IN FOCUS is a response to theNordic Council of Minister's cross-sectional strategyon Children and Youth 2016-2022 as well asthe Nordic Co-operation Programme for RegionalDevelopment and Planning 2017-2021. It stresses the importance of promoting social sustainabilityin relation to regional development. The Icelandic chair in 2019 has young people as one of three mainpriorities. It relates to SDG4, the fourth UN sustainable development goal, in that young people should have a key role in achieving the goal, they should been couraged to actively participate in society and should have access to important decisions shapingthe future (Norræna raherranefndin, 2018). Furthermore, the project also relates strongly to both European, Nordic and in some cases national policyemphasis on inclusive labour markets for youth with reduced functional capacities.

Nabo er ein verkætlan sum var sett í gongd í Nørrøna ráðharraráðnum undir tí svenska formannaskapinum í 2018. Svenski myndugleikin Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor stjørnar fyri verkætlanani í tíðarskeiðinum 2018–2020. Hon hevur sum mál at lýsa ungdómssjónarmið á sosiala inkludering gjøgnum røddir frá ungum í Norðurlondum. Røddir teirra ungu verða hoyrdar í spurningum sum handla um teirra egna lív. Grundað hesa vitan fáa tey møguleika at luttaka í og ávirka politiskar avgerðir. Ung verða biðin um at lýsa sín gerandisdag og siga frá, hvørjar møguleikar og forðingar tey uppliva at tey hava. Úr frásøgnunum byggir Nabo vitan um hvørji viðurskifti sum menna sosiala inkludering í Norðurlondum. Hendan frágreiðing byggir á samrøður við ung í fokusbólkum á ymiskum plássum í Føroyum. Líknandi kanningar eru verksettar í øllum Norðurlondum og í Grønlandi och Álandi.