Editorial: Number 51

While this issue is not exclusively focused on these themes-papers on affordable northern housing and the Arctic Council continue to broaden the reach of the journal-questions about how the North can create a profitable and successful economy while protecting the environment, and how this vast and thinly populated area can respond to crises, remain front and centre. The vulnerability of Indigenous women living with domestic violence is yet another illustration of the urgent need for fast and effective responses and an indication of the difficulty of providing such support in northern communities. The papers in this issue of the Northern Review speak, in a variety of ways, to the North's need for careful and thoughtful planning, the availability of disaster relief teams, appropriate environmental regulations and oversight, and the kind of longterm thinking that is coming out of the Arctic Council.