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  • 5th Arctic Business Forum announced

    5th Arctic Business Forum announced

    Rovaniemi spring impressions

    The 5th Arctic Business Forum meeting will be held in Rovaniemi, northern Finland. The conference will be taking place from March 11th – 13th 2014.

    This annual event will introduce the latest business development and future prospects of the rising Arctic economy as a vital part of worldwide developments.

    Two days of world class presentations by invited speakers, a trade show and a high class social program in the very heart of Lapland Finland make the event an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the arctic business development in terms of business opportunities and networking, exchanging ideas, insight and learning experience.

    The following current issues will be featured by the presentations:

    • What effects climate change has on Arctic business
    • Arctic sea routes and the influence on other transport methods
    • Shale gas developments and effects on arctic oil & gas industry
    • Raw material prices – is mining still profitable and sustainable
    • Best practices
    • how do SME’s get in and part of the large scale projects

    Additional information with program and registration details available at www.arcticbusinessforum.com 

    The conference is organized by Lapland Chamber of Commerce, Finland.

  • AC will collaborate on climate change

    AC will collaborate on climate change

    UN FCCC

    Recent statement issued by the Arctic Council during the UN Climate Change Conference that took place in Warsaw, assured collaboration against the climate change.

    Issued on behalf of all of the group’s members – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian, Sweden and the United States, and six indigenous permanent participant organisations – the council said it remains committed to working with other countries under the auspices of the UN to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

    The Arctic Council recognized the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, minimize emissions of short live climate pollutants, particularly black carbon, methane and hydroflurocarbons, which are contributing significantly to near – term impacts in the Arctic.

    To read more about key decisions of Warsaw Climate Change Conference 2013, please access the conference website.

  • Website for the ASSW 2015 is now open

    Website for the ASSW 2015 is now open

    Arctic Science Summit Week 2015 will take place in Japan.

    The website for the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2015 in Toyama (Japan) is now available.

    The ASSW 2015 will be held on 23-30, April 2015 and include the final event of the 3rd International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III).

    For more information please see the enclosed first circular or visit the website

    First Circular is now available.

    Click here to visit new ICARP III website.

  • IICWG meets in Reykjavik

    IICWG meets in Reykjavik

    Arctic sea ice

    International meeting of International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) is being held in Reykjavik 21st – 25th of October 2013.

    The conference is open for public. Icelandic participants are to include representatives from University of Iceland, Department of Geology and Icelandic Meteorological Office.

    The IICWG has been meeting for 13 years, since 1999. During this time, the group has been successful at developing a collegial working relationship amongst the majority of the world´s ice informational services.

    Meetings of IICWG are being held annually. Participants are to include representatives of the national governmental and private ice services from the northern hemisphere.

    Please, follow the link to read more about the meeting and the working group.

  • Pre – conference events start today

    Pre – conference events start today

    Ketilhús in Akureyri

    The Arctic Energy Summit is about to start. Participants from all over the world are arriving to Akureyri in order to participate in an international Arctic energy conference.

    Conference guests will be offered local food and beverages along with renowned Icelandic music. Local companies and organizations will be in place to introduce their Arctic – related activities. Held in a local art exhibition Ketlihús, Icelandic art will also be presented.

    The event is open and free of charge for all conference guests.

    The Arctic is sometimes described as the last frontier in the development of energy resources. The Institute of the North’s Arctic Energy Summit will explore energy as a fundamental element of the sustainable development of the Arctic as a lasting frontier.

    Central to this concept is how a focus on richness, resilience and responsibility will provide a pathway for sustainable energy development in the Arctic and for Arctic communities.

    The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit is a multi-disciplinary event expected to draw several hundred industry officials, scientists, academics, policy makers, energy professionals and community leaders together to collaborate and share leading approaches on Arctic energy issues.

  • From Alaska to Iceland: six years later

    From Alaska to Iceland: six years later

    HOF - Culture House in Akureyri and the conference venue

    Once again, after highly successful 2007 Arctic Energy Summit and Technology Conference, The Institute of the North, together with its Icelandic partner – the Arctic Portal, is organizing The 2013 Arctic Energy Summit.

    The event will take place 8th – 10th October in Akureyri, northern Iceland and relate to thematic areas such as richness, resilience and responsibility. More information about the conference and its topics is available here.

    Foe those, who do not remember, the first Arctic Energy Summit was held in 2007 in Anchorage, Alaska and gathered close to 300 representatives from 13 different countries.
    The technology conference provided a forum for the presentation of international, interdisciplinary technical research papers on the Arctic as an emerging province.

    Presentations covered fields of extractive energy, rural power and sustainability of energy in the Arctic. To read more about topics covered by Arctic Energy Summit 2007, please visit the IoN Website.

    This year´s speakers will include David J.Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior in the United States, David Garman, the former Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Aqqaluk Lynge, the former President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and its current international Chair.

  • Imaginaire du Nord calls for papers

    Imaginaire du Nord calls for papers

    Midnight sun in the Arctic

    The International Laboratory for the Multidisciplinary Comparative Study of Representations of the North, of the Université du Québec à Montréal, announces a call for papers for its 8th international conference, «Cold: Adaptation, Representations, Production, Effects», co-organized with the “Cultures, environments, Arctic, representations, climate” research centre of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin (France), as part of a France-Québec cooperation project.

    The objective of this multidisciplinary conference is to think about the idea of “cold” in all of its multiple disciplinary variations—geographical, cultural, medical, biological, climatological, engineered, physical, linguistic and sociological.

    Defined by Étienne Lalou as “both a relative and subjective sensation,” cold is invisible.

    Its manifestations can only be appreciated in the effect it has on bodies and objects as well as through human adaptation (architecture, transportation, clothing, social and cultural practices), representation (literary, filmic, pictorial) and its technical or technological production (refrigeration and cooling, air conditioning, freezing, etc.)

    Proposals can be sent by e-mail at imaginairedunord@uqam.ca until August 31, 2013 at the latest.

    The conference will take place at Université de Versailles—Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France), on December 12, 13 and 14, 2013.

    The event is co-organized by the “Cultures, environments, Arctic, representations, climate” research centre of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin and the Laboratory for the Comparative Multidisciplinary Study of Representations of the North at the Université du Québec à Montréal, as part of a France-Québec cooperation project. Selected papers will be published.

    Source

    University of Québec

  • Sámi Customary Rights conference

    Sámi Customary Rights conference

    Polar bear in the Arctic

    The conference Sámi Customary Rights in Modern Landscapes – Indigenous People and Nature Conservation will be held in Luleå, Sweden, 28-29 August 2013, with an optional excursion and workshop in Jokkmokk on the 30th of August.

    The conference aims to explore how culturally defined values, ideologies and policies have formed, and continue to form, the basis of Indigenous rights and management models of nature conservation areas in Sápmi.

    Comparisons with, or cases of, the situations of other Indigenous Peoples are welcome. The conference seeks to bring together different disciplines such as history, political science, law, cultural geography, sociology and anthropology.The purpose is to combine different scientific disciplines such a history, political sciences and law. Some specific issues include:

    • How the cultural imagination of nature and landscape among different Indigenous groups has influenced the establishment of nature conservation areas and the design of governance models for natural resources.
    • How the contemporary governance of protected areas has been influenced by the principles of equality and positive discrimination, affecting the possibilities to establish adaptive co-management arrangements of specific areas.
    • How the legal situation of the Sámi and other Indigenous Peoples has been recognized, especially concerning longstanding customary territorial rights.

    For more information see the conference website.

    Source

    Sámi Customary Rights in Modern Landscape

  • Protecting the sacred in the Arctic

    Protecting the sacred in the Arctic

    Indigenous lifestyle

    Conference recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture in Northern and Arctic Regions, will take place 11 – 13 September 2013 in Rovaniemi and Pyhä, Finland.

    The conference brings together scientists, sacred natural sites custodians, Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations, policy makers, conservation and civil society leaders, to evaluate options for international and national law, policy and practice in order to better recognize, safeguard, conserve and manage Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) of Indigenous Peoples in Northern and Arctic regions.

    SNS are being increasingly recognized as an important means for the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, and the transmission of culture and identity.

    Yet, legal protection of SNS and related policies are still often insufficient or absent. It becomes increasingly difficult for custodians in the North to protect these ancient sites, due to economic developments (tourism, mining, forestry) and infrastructural development (roads, dams, mega projects).

    At the same time the need for protection may be challenged by some protection measures (identifying of location, mapping) and may raise the question of keeping intimacy and sensitivity of these places.

    At international level, SNS have been receiving increasing legal attention; they are now mentioned in several international legal instruments (e.g., CBD, UNDRIP). Yet, effective and culturally appropriate implementation is often still lacking.

    The Conference is co-organized by the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland), University of Montreal and the University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law.

    In order to attend the conference, please complete and submit the registration form by 8th of August. Click here for more information about the event.

    Source

    Arctic Centre

  • Coastal tourism: questions and answers

    Coastal tourism: questions and answers

    Marine & Coastal Culture Tourism in Northern Territories

    Conference that focused on the fishing environment in northern territories took place in the University of Akureyri, 18 – 19 June 2013. The conference was organized by the Stefansson Arctic Institute in collaboration with the University of Akureyri Research Center, NORA, the Iclandic Tourism Research Center, Norwegian Seafood Center and the Icelandic Lighthouse Society.

    Marine and coastal culture tourism is growing in popularity in various ways. Some tourists want to learn about life in coastal villages, experience nature and tranquility as well as the wilderness. Others want to experience the excitement of driving charter boats, diving, surfing, go speed boating or hiring a boat and try their luck at fishing. Then there are those who want to sail from port to port and country to country on board gigantic cruise ships.

    How does this fit in with cultural heritage, everyday life, social development, self-sufficiency, fishing quotas and environmental policies of the Nordic nations? How can the Nordic nations collaborate in this area? Do these diverse aspects of tourism have collaborative opportunities? These challenges were discussed at the conference where further questions were pondered through group work and perhaps more answers and collaborative possibilities found.

    Source

    Stefansson Arctic Institute