Thursday, 28 January

Part II, plenary: Local adaptation to climate change

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Inger Njølstad and Brynhild Granås)

09:00 Invited speaker VII: G.K. Hovelsrud. Community adaptation to climate change

  

Gender and mobility and labour market

Auditorium 2, (Chair: Gerrard/Aure)

Planning/governance and economic development

Room 1.343, (Chair: Fugmann/Isaksen)

Traditional and scientific knowledge

Room 1.435, (Chair: tbc)

09:40

Marit Aure & T. Fossland, University of Tromsø, Norway: Sustainable Labour Markets: High Skilled Migrants and Gender in the Arctic.

John R. Isaksen & E. Mikkelsen, Nofima Market, Norway: Does ‘value-creation’ matter in municipal coastal zone planning in the Norwegian Arctic? Can value creation be emphasised in the municipality with today’s availability of economic data?

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10:05 Siri Gerrard, University of Tromsø, Norway: Mobile Practices and Gendered Challenges – Examples from the High North

 

Gerlis Fugmann, University Giessen, Germany: Changes in Economic Development in Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador): Impact on the Community of Nain -

 10:30 Break

 

Neighbours and migrants

(Chair: Olsen/Ringholm)

Health risks in the North

(Chair: Jenssen/Skandfer)

Governance between the local and over-local level

(Chair: Konstantinov/Baker)

10:50 Toril Ringholm & N. Aarsæther, Norut, Norway: The Role of the Municipality in Northern Local Community Development Morten Skandfer et al., University Hospital North Norway, Norway: Occupational disease in North Norway and Murmansk region

Betsy Baker, Vermont Law School/Dartmouth College, USA: The Beaufort Sea: Comparing Inuvialuit and Inupiat Participation in Marine Management Decisions

11:15 Sonni Olsen & M. Bjerkeng, University of Tromsø, Norway: How neighbours communicate: The role of language in border relations Marthe Jenssen et al., Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway: Mercury exposure and links to human health in a community in Tromsø, Arctic Norway

 

Yulian Konstantinov, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria: Sustainability from the grass roots: A vernacular strategy in a multiethnic community of the Russian High North (Kola Peninsula)
11:40 Discussion Discussion Discussion

12:00 Lunch

Part II, plenary:: Health care in rural areas in the North

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Inger Njølstad and Laila Hopstock

13:00  Invited speaker VII: R. Strasser. Sustainable Health Care in Rural and Remote Communities

13:30 Break 

 

Responding to threats and damages to environment and communities

(Chair: Minayeva/Midtgard)

”New” industries in the North

(Chair: Brattland/Ellingsen)

Rural health services

(Chair: Hilpüsch/Brandstorp)

13:40 M.R. Midtgard. The vulnerable north"; a fishing community’s thoughts about their vulnerability, sustainability and resilience. May-Britt Ellingsen et al., Norut, Norway: The clustering of marine biotechnology firms and entrepreneurial traditions in the High North

 

Helen Brandstorp & A.L. Kirkengen, University of Tromsø, Norway: Training local emergency teams - to improve safety for all
14:05 Tatiana Minayeva & T. Bobrovitskaya, Wetlands International, The Netherlands: Arctic tundra restoration partnership project between Shell and Wetlands International C. Brattland. Mapping Rights in Coastal Sami Seascapes Frank Hilpüsch et al., General practitioner, Norway: Nursing personnel: A resource in the treatment of out of hospital emergency incidents in a small rural community - Experiences from our interprofessional emergency team the “Bjarkøy model”

14:30 Break

Part II, plenary: Social Indicators, Social research, and Climate change in the North

Auditorium 2, Chairs: Nils Aarsaether and Camilla Brattland)

14:50 Invited speaker Joan Nymand Larsen et al., Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland: Arctic Social Indicators and long-term monitoring: considerations for regional and community sustainability

15:20 Invited speaker Alexander Pelyasov, Center of the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for Research for the Study of Productive Forces, Russia: The shortcomings of Arctic Social Research - A challenge for the sustainability of Arctic communities in the new creative age

15:50 J.Ø. Odland. Climate Change, Environment, Human Health and Human Adaptation in Circumpolar Regions. A strategy for sustainable development and policy development

16:20 End