A seminar entitled Civilisation of Reindeer and future of the Arctic is shown live over the internet today.
The seminar has many interesting speakers and presentation and it is easily accessible here.
Nomadic Herders and Industrial Development of Natural Resources is held in the Nomadic Herders Days in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The venue is Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Geography and Geoecology and the chair of the today is Dr. Konstantin Klokov.
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Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
We will broadcast the sessions today after broadcastin live yesterday. The sessions will also be available on the Arctic Portal website later.
The schedule for today is as follows: (all times on Norwegian time)
09:00 – 10:30 Case study: Reindeer herding
Chairs: Svein D. Mathiesen (ICR) and Cathy Wilkinson (SRC)
Short presentations:
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:05 Adaptive and transformative capacity
Chairs: Annika E. Nilsson, SEI and Sarah Cornell, SRC
Presentations:
– Douglas Clark, PhD, University of Saskachewan: Adaptive and transformative capacity in the Arctic. Lessons from the literature (video link)
14.05-15:00 Presentations
15:30 – 16:30 Closing session
Chair: Gunn-Britt Retter, Saami Council – Panel discussion moderator: Johan Kuylenstierna, SEI
Workshop conclusions – Panel discussion
Arctic Portal is broadcasting live from the Arctic Resilience Report (ARR) workshop in Kautokeino, Norway, this week. The ARR is an Arctic Council project led by Stockholm Environment Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
We will broadcast the sessions today and tomorrow live and the sessions will also be available on the Arctic Portal website later.
The schedule for today is as follows: (all times on Norwegian time)
09:00 – 09:20 Welcome address
– Niko Valkeapää, Vice President, Saami Council
Johan Mathis Turi, General Secretary, Association of World Reindeer Herders (WRH)
09:20 – 10:40 Key note presentations
– Johan Rockström, Professor, Stockholm Resilience Center, Arctic resilience in a global perspective
– Inger Marie Gaup Eira, Associate Professor, Sámi University College: Sami language as the source of traditional knowledge in resilience research
– b, Associate Professor, Sámi University College: Siida and traditional knowlegde
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00 Arctic Resilience Report Project overview and methodology
Chair: Johan Rockström and Anders Oskal
Presentations:
– Annika E. Nilsson, PhD, Stockholm Environment Institute: Arctic Resilience Report. Background and project overview
– Martin Sommerkorn; WWF – Global Arctic Program: Conceptual overview of the ARR methodology
– Sarah Cornell, PhD Stockholm Resilience Center: The ARR approach to assessing thresholds in the Arctic
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Thresholds in the Arctic
Chairs: Johan Rockström and Anders Oskal
Presentations:
– Robert Corell, PhD, Climate change and critical thresholds in Arctic societies and resilience assessments?
– Paul Overduin, PhD, Alfred Wegener Institute: Thresholds in coastal systems
– Mark Nuttall, Professor, University of Alberta/University of Greenland: Thresholds in social systems – some reflections (video link)