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- Nilsson, Annika E, et al.
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Towards improved participatory scenario methodologies in the Arctic
- 2019
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Ingår i: Polar Geography. - 1088-937X .- 1939-0513.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Participatory scenario methodologies are increasingly used for studying possible future developments in the Arctic. They have the potential to contribute to several high-priority tasks for Arctic research, such as integration of indigenous and local knowledge in futures studies, providing a platform for activating Arctic youth in shaping their futures, identifying Arctic-relevant indicators for sustainable development, and supporting decision-making towards sustainable futures. Yet, to achieve this potential, several methodological challenges need to be addressed. These include attention to whose voices are amplified or silenced in participatory research practices, with special attention to diversification and the engagement of youth. Given the historic and potential future role of disruptive events for Arctic development trajectories, methods are needed in participatory scenario exercises to include attention to the dynamics and consequences of such events and regime shifts. Participatory scenarios can also be further improved through approaches that effectively combine qualitative and quantitative information. Finally, there is a need for systematic studies of how the results of scenario exercises influence decision-making processes. This article elaborates on ways in which attention to these aspects can help make scenarios more robust for assessing a diversity of potential Arctic futures in times of rapid environmental and social change.
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Arctic Human Development Report
- 2004
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Arctic Human Development Report is the first comprehensive assessment of human well-being covering the entire Arctic region. Mandated under the Arctic Council’s 2002 Ministerial Declaration as a “priority project” designed to provide a “comprehensive knowledge base” for the work of the Council’s Sustainable Development Programme, the AHDR was a centerpiece of the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council during 2002-2004. The report contains 11 substantive chapters, an introduction, a conclusion and a Summary of Major Findings. Based on contributions from some 90 scientists located in all the members of the Arctic Council and coordinated by a secretariat based at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland, the report offers a wide-ranging scientific assessment of achievements and challenges relating to human development in the Arctic. According to the AHDR, “Arctic societies have a well-deserved reputation for resilience in the face of change. But today they are facing an unprecedented combination of rapid and stressful changes” involving both environmental forces like climate change and socioeconomic pressures associated with globalization
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- Evengård, Birgitta, et al.
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Paths to the new Arctic
- 2015
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Ingår i: The new Arctic. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319176017 - 9783319176024 ; , s. 1-6
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the late eighteenth century explorers and scientists started venturing into the Arctic beyond areas that were already populated by Indigenous peoples and a smaller number of new settlers, and ultimately towards the North Pole. It was about as far as anyone could get from civilization at the time, and in many respects it remains this way to this day. What the first explorers saw had not yet been seen and recorded by Western civilization. They were the first to tell the stories and document the state of the Arctic – its physical landscape and Indigenous cultures. The prosaic descriptions are many and colourful, moving and poetic, and they also soon began to provide detailed accounts of the state of Indigenous living conditions. A shared feature in these first accounts, in prints and in paintings, is the descriptions of a harsh and barren landscape frozen in time; static and unchangeable, except for the swift sways in weather. Fanciful images of indigenous communities in isolated settlements, without any contact with “western civilization” came to shape the following generations perception of the Arctic. While the Arctic gradually became a place where new maps and lines drawn became a reality to outsiders, it was also, and had been for thousands of years, the homeland for many and diverse groups of indigenous peoples, surviving in at times unforgiving conditions while developing vibrant cultures, including strong traditions for adapting to changing conditions. The storytelling is today highly valued by itself and for its importance as a complement to science. And northern art has become more vibrant than ever as shown in some chapters here integrating the changes occurring on so many grounds. It is time for new images of the region to be established. With this book we wish these new images and the new knowledge constantly being produced to reach a broad audience as the interested general public as well as policy-makers and scientific colleagues.
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- Field, Christopher B., et al.
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Summary for Policymakers
- 2014
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Ingår i: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and SectoralAspects.. - 9781107415379 ; , s. 1-32
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- Nilsson, Annika E., et al.
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Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015, eorts areunderway to identify indicators for monitoring progress. However, perceptions of sustainabilityare scale and place specific, and there has also been a call for Sustainable Development Goals andindicators that are more relevant for the Arctic than the global perspectives. Based on earlier andongoing eorts to identify Arctic Social Indicators for monitoring human development, insights fromscenario workshops and interviews at various locations in the Barents region and Greenland andon studies of adaptive capacity and resilience in the Arctic, we provide an exploratory assessmentof the global SDGs and indicators from an Arctic perspective. We especially highlight a need foradditional attention to demography, including outmigration; indigenous rights; Arctic-relevantmeasures of economic development; and social capital and institutions that can support adaptationand transformation in this rapidly changing region. Issues brought up by the SDG frameworkthat need more attention in Arctic monitoring include gender, and food and energy security. Wefurthermore highlight a need for initiatives that can support bottom–up processes for identifyinglocally relevant indicators for sustainable development that could serve as a way to engage Arcticresidents and other regional and local actors in shaping the future of the region and local communities,within a global sustainability context.
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- Sörlin, Sverker, et al.
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Patterns of Arctic Extractivism : Past and Present
- 2022
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Ingår i: Resource Extraction and Arctic Communties. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ; , s. 35-65
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Extractivism has been predominant in the Arctic since whaling and sealing campaigns began in the sixteenth century, followed by mining and drilling for oil and gas. In this chapter we present some of the main features of this ‘extractivist history’ of the circumpolar region. We organize this development along a set of themes. First, we explore the extractive frame of mind in Western thought and how it has continued to shape visions of the region. Second, we explore the material and social impacts of historical extractivism. Third, we use the theoretical lens of colonialism and decolonialism to understand the social and political relations, especially with aboriginal populations. Fourth, we examine the, often fraught, recent and contemporary debates around contemporary and future extractivism and its implications for the Arctic. The historical overview serves the purpose of providing a legible pattern from what is also a range of diverse and rich variations. A key finding is that extractivism is a lasting legacy and a path dependency of the region. At the same time resource extraction has many problematic sides that the seeking of new Arctic futures will have to deal with.
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