Sustainability Panels
[Arctic
Futures, Sustainabilities and Strategic Environmental Research]
| [SakKijânginnatuk
Nunalik] | [From
Staples to Sustainability: Can Extractive Resource Development
Lead to Sustainability in the Arctic?]
Three Sustainability Research Project Panels will be presented
during the Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social
Sciences being held 22-26 May 2014 at the University of Northern
British Columbia, in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
These large-scale sustainability research projects will be held
in the same venue as the keynote speeches, and will be
scheduled, like the keynoted, so that all conference
participants may attend.
1)
Arctic Futures,
Sustainabilities and Strategic Environmental Research Panel organized by: Lize-Marié van der Watt
(Project Manager, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat)
Presentation 1: Multiple futures, multiple pasts – on
seeing many Arctics - Carina Keskitalo What has been
the role of social sciences and humanities in constructing the
Arctic pasts and Arctic futures of the present? This
presentation reflects on the role social sciences and
humanities, and the individuals conducting social science and
humanities research, have played in constructing/deconstructing
the prevailing narratives of Arctic pasts. It also looks
critically at the influence that social sciences and the
humanities can (and should) have in constructing/deconstructing
Arctic futures, especially given the intrinsically political
nature of sustainable development as a concept. Authors:
Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University), Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal
Institute of Technology), Nina Wormbs (KTH Royal Institute of
Technology).
Presentation 2: Is the Arctic rich
in resources? Interdisciplinarity in understanding governance -
Peder Roberts How does interdisciplinary work aid
our understanding of resources? If we recognize that resources
such as ecosystem services are constructed entities, in terms of
their location within political-economic and cultural networks,
do we gain a tool for thinking critically about their importance
– with implications for sustainable development? How can social
sciences and the humanities engage productively with natural
sciences – and each other – to inform the debate on appropriate
governance regimes? Authors: Dag Avango (KTH Royal Institute
of Technology), Scott Cole, (EnviroEconomics), Gerda Kinell
(Enveco Environmental Economics Consultancy), Annika E. Nilsson
(Stockholm Environment Institute), Peder Roberts (KTH Royal
Institute of Technology), Tore Söderqvist (Enveco Environmental
Economics Consultancy).\
Presentation 3:
Salience, stakeholders and sustainabilities - Suzanne de la
Barre or Peter Sköld. What do we mean when we speak
of stakeholders in the Arctic? What does this imply for Arctic
governance? Who (or what) constitutes a legitimate stakeholder
in Arctic social-science and humanities research? Who should
determine research priorities, and where is our own place as
researchers as stakeholders in the Arctic? In essence, how is
‘stakeholder’ defined, validated, acknowledged, and
operationalized in the Arctic? Authors: Dieter Müller (Umeå
University ), Suzanne de la Barre (Vancouver Island University
and Umeå University), Eric Paglia (KTH), Peter Sköld (Umeå
University), Kristofer Bergh (Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute)
Discussant: Peter Schweitzer
(University of Vienna).
Moderated open discussion:
Lize-Marié van der Watt
Other Panel Members attending &
leading the presentations: Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University)
Peder Roberts (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Suzanne de
la Barre (Vancouver Island University and Umeå University)
Peter Sköld (Umeå University), Peter Schweitzer (University
of Vienna & IASSA Council Member)
2) SakKijânginnatuk Nunalik
Panel organized by: Trevor Bell (Memorial University
of Newfoundland), and Tom Sheldon (Director of Environment,
Nunatsiavut Government & Nain Research Centre)
Outline of Hour: Introduce the Sustainable Communities
Initiative (SCI) and briefly outline the issues that led to its
creation. Focus on our holistic, action-oriented approach and
the relationship between research, policy development and
program evaluation. Brief overview of two of the main SCI
sub-projects: InosiKatigeKagiamik Illumi (Healthy Homes in
Nunatsiavut – piloting Nunatsiavut’s first sustainable,
multi-unit residential dwelling) and Aullak,
sangilivallianginnatuk (Going Off, Growing Strong – community
freezer and youth outreach program). These overviews will
include short documentary videos illustrating the scope,
outcomes and value of these projects for communities. To be
followed by open discussion with questions from the audience.
Other Panel Members: Christina Goldhar (Environmental
Protection Analyst, Nunatsiavut Government) Dorothy Angnatok
(Research Outreach Coordinator for the Nunatsiavut Government)
Invited Government and Community leaders
3) From Staples to Sustainability: Can Extractive Resource
Development Lead to Sustainability in the Arctic?
Panel organized by: Chris Southcott (Resources and
Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA), Canada & IASSA
Council Member), and Andrey Petrov (Arctic Frontiers of
Sustainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and
Development in the Changing North (Arctic-FROST), USA & IASSA
Council Member)
Outline of Hour: We are proposing to have five individuals on
the panel. One will be the moderator and will introduce the
topic and the panel. The other four will address the two
questions being proposed. Each will have 10 minutes to speak.
The final 15 minutes will be reserved for comments from the
audience. Not all of four speakers have yet been confirmed, but
each will be from a different region of the Arctic and will
represent a different academic discipline. At least one panelist
will be a non-academic community representative. Other Panel
Members: Lee Huskey (Economist, Alaska, USA) Ken Coates
(Historian, Canada) TBA x 2
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