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Past Activities

2024

  • Workshop + Panel: Circumpolar Education Program on Environmental Change and Resilience, Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway.
    • Chair/ Host: UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience
    • Panelists:
      • Jeff Birchall, University of Alberta
      • Diane Hirshberg, University of Alaska Anchorage
      • Helene Svendsen, GRID-Arendal, Norway
      • Anthony Speca, Læra Institute for Circumpolar Education
      • Jamie Bell, @1860 Winnipeg Arts Collective
    • Moderator: Maeva Gauthier, University of Victoria
    • Date/ Time: May 29, 2024, 15:00-17:00
    • Location: Quality Hotel Ramsalt, Sjøgata 37, 8006 Bodø, Norway
  • Paper: A last resort or a sustainable adaptation option?: Planning for relocation in Northern communities vulnerable to climate stressors. Session: Adaptation to Climate Change (2.4). Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway. (by Nicole Bonnett & Jeff Birchall). Date/ Time: June 1, 2024, 09:00-10:30. Location: Fram Cinema - Room: Hall 1
  • Roundtable: Resilience in the North: Mapping A Path and Measuring Progress. Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway. Host: Arctic Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
    • Partners:
      • Arctic Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
      • High North Center, Nord University Business School
      • Association of World Reindeer Herders
      • UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience
    • The Roundtable will build on previous activities, and provide an opportunity to:
      • review an initial catalogue of the Arctic resilience cases that have been identified.
      • consider other potential cases that could contribute to our understanding of Arctic resilience; and
      • develop a framework for documenting these cases to draw out key features and characteristics of the cases, identify measures and indicators of resilience, advance our understanding of the concept and how it is being applied, and draw out lessons about resilience from the Arctic.
    • Date/ Time: June 1, 2024, 13:30-15:00
    • Location: Thon Nordlys Hotel - Room: Børvasstind
  • Session: The Architecture of Urban Cooperation: Fostering Local Development in a Changing Arctic (2.5.1). Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway. Chair: Nadezhda Filimonova, Belfer Centre for Science and International Affair (UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience). Date/ Time: June 1, 2024, 13:30-15:00. Location: Stormen Concert Hall - Room: Kammersal
  • Paper: Progress on climate resilience in practice: Insights from local and territorial government interactions. Session: Building capacity and institutional (2.5). Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway. (by Desiree Rose, Jeff Birchall & Nicole Bonnett). Date/ Time: June 1, 2024, 13:30-15:00. Location: Stormen Concert Hall - Room: Kammersal
  • Plenary Panel: Climate and the Environment, Arctic Congress (2024), Bodø, Norway.
    • Chair: Sara Olsvig, Chair ICC, Greenland
    • Moderator: Anne Husebekk University of Tromsø, Norway
    • Panelists:
      • Young researcher: Nicole Bonnett, University of Alberta, Canada (UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience);
      • Arctic ambassador: Eric Carlson, Senior Arctic Official, USA;
      • Indigenous knowledge holder: Julius Mihkkal Lindi, the Saami Council
    • Date/ Time: June 1, 2024, 17:00-18:00
    • Location: Stormen Concert Hall - Room: Main Hall
  • Paper: We Need to Talk: A case study on the importance of meaningful communication and collaboration for fostering community resilience. Community Planning Association of Alberta Annual Conference (2024), Red Deer, Canada. (by Nicole Bonnett, Desiree Rose, S. Jeff Birchall). Date: April 30, 2024.
  • Paper: Advancing solid waste management in Arctic and Subarctic cities. Session: Arctic Cities’ Policymaking in Response to Climate Change. International Studies Association Conference (2024), San Francisco, USA. (by Nadezhda Filimonova & S . Jeff Birchall). Date: April 6, 2024.
  • Speaker Series: Captive in a prone area? Landowner responsibility for preventing disaster risk in the built environment in Norway (online, February 14, 2024, 10-11am (MST)):

2023

2022

2021

2020

  • Videoconference - Thematic Network Partners Meeting (Oct 26, 2020)
  • Workshop - The importance of being flexible: Research doesn’t always go the way you expect! The case of Dawson City, Yukon. Quick Response Research Workshop. Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and the Natural Hazards Center (September, 2020). Delivered virtually by Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada).
  • (virtual) Seminar - Local-scale Climate Resilience. University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada, March, 2020).

2019

  • Videoconference - Inaugural Partners Meeting (November, 2019).

Publications 2019-2022

  • Birchall, SJ., Kehler, S, Bonnett, N. (2022). Fostering resilience and adapting to climate change in the Canadian North: Implications for infrastructure in the proposed Canadian Northern Corridor. Canadian Northern Corridor Special Series, School of Public Policy Publications, University of Calgary. http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.11575/sppp.v15i1.74463.
  • Van Asshe, K., Birchall, SJ., Gruezmacher, M. (2022). Arctic and northern community governance: The need for local planning and design as resilience strategy. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106062.
  • M Groulx, A Winegardner, MC Brisbois, LA Fishback, R Linde, K Levy (2021). Place and transformative learning in climate change focused community science. FACETS 6 (1), 1773-1794.
  • Lede E, Pearce T, Furgal C, Sidle R, Ashford G and Ford J. (2021). The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Regional Environmental Change.
  • Nuttall, M. (2021). Arctic ecology, Indigenous peoples and environmental governance, in David Thomas (ed.) Arctic Ecology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 409-422.
  • Emanuelsen K, Pearce T, Oakes J, Harper S and Ford J. (2020). Sewing and Inuit women’s health in the Canadian Arctic. Social Science & Medicine.
  • Chen, W., Van Assche, K. A. M., Hynes, S., Bekkby, T., Christie, H. C., & Gundersen, H. (2020). Ecosystem accounting's potential to support coastal and marine governance. Marine Policy, 112, 103758.
  • Naylor A, Ford J, Pearce T and Van Alstine J. (2020). Conceptualizing climate vulnerability in complex adaptive systems. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.011
  • Pearce T, Ford J and Fawcett D (2020). Climate Change and implications for the proposed Canadian Northern Corridor. University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, 13(21): 39.
  • Canosa I, Ford J, McDowell G, Jones J and Pearce T. (2020). Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters.
  • Worden E, Pearce T, Gruben M, Ross D, Kowana C and Loseto L. (2020). Social-ecological changes and implications for understanding the declining beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) harvest in Aklavik, NT. Arctic Science.
  • Pettit-Wade H, Pearce T, Kuptana D, Gallagher C, Scharffenberg K, Lea E, Hussey N and Loseto L. (2020). Inuit observations of a Tunicata bloom unusual for the Amundsen Gulf, western Canadian Arctic. Arctic Science.
  • Johnson N, Pearce T, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN and Loseto L. (2020). Knowledge co-production and co-management of Arctic wildlife. Arctic Science, 6: 124-126.
  • Nuttall, M. (2020). Water, ice and climate change in Northwest Greenland’ WIREs Water 7(3): https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1433.
  • Nuttall, M., Flora, J., & Andersen, A.O. (2020). Towards community-based narwhal conservation in Greenland. Science 370 (6515), 1: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6515/416.1/tab-e-letters.
  • Nuttall, M. & Callaghan, T.V. (2020). Preface, in Mark Nuttall and Terry V. Callaghan (eds.) The Arctic: environment, people, policy. London and New York: Routledge (book re-published in the Routledge Library Editions: Ecology series, with new Preface).
  • Loseto L, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN, Johnson N, Pearce T, Allen J, Amos A, Arqviq J, Baak E, Belanger E, Bourdages M, Brammer JR, Fawcett D, Gerin-Lajoie J, Gilbert G, Hansen-Craik K, Loring E, Perrin A and Slavitch M. (2020). Indigenous participation in peer review publications and the editorial process: reflections from a workshop. Arctic Science.
  • Pearce T and Myers E (2020). Nunamin Illihakvia: learning from the land, Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Alternatives Journal. 44(1): 5-47. 
  • Ford J, King N, Galappaththi E, Pearce T, McDowell G and Harper S (2020). The resilience of Indigenous peoples to environmental change. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.014 
  • M Groulx, LA Fishback, A Winegardner (2019). Citizen science and the public nature of climate action. Polar Geography 42 (3), 176-195.
  • Boezeman, D., Donkers, H., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Coastal managed retreat: New branch on the climate adaptation tree. Geografie. https://geografie.nl/artikel/dit-lees-je-het-septembernummer-van-geografie-2019.
  • MacDonald, S., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Climate change resilience in the Canadian Arctic: The need for collaboration in the face of a changing landscape. Canadian Geographer, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12591. 
  • Ford J, Clarke D, Pearce T, Berrang-Ford L, Copland L, Dawson J, Mark N and Harper S. (2019). Changing access to ice, land, and water in Arctic communities. Nature Climate Change, NCLIM-18091686B
  • Shields, R. Ruiz, F, Schonach, P. (2019). Beyond Melt Indigenous Lifeways in a Fading Cryosphere.’ with. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue. 13(2), 7-15.
  • Shields, R. (2019). The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue.13(2), 93-107.
  • Nuttall, M. (2019). Icy, watery, liquescent: sensing and feeling climate change on Northwest Greenland’s coast. Journal of Northern Studies 14(2): 71-91.
  • Dodds, K.& Nuttall, M. (2019). The Arctic: what everyone needs to know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 272.
  • Dodds, K., & Nuttall, M. (2019). Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland, in Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsberg (eds.) The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: reconfiguring identity, space, and time. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 224-241.
  • Nuttall, M. (2019). Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland’s Melville Bay during the Cold War, in Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt (eds.) Cold Science: environmental knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War. London and New York, pp. 23-41.
  • Nuttall, M. (2019). Sea ice, climate and resources: the changing nature of hunting along Greenland’s northwest coast, in Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (eds). Climate, Capitalism and Communities: an anthropology of environmental overheating. London: Pluto Press, pp. 57-75. 
  • Nuttall, M. (2019). Greenland matters: in the crosscurrents of Arctic change, in Robert R. Corell, Jong Deog Kim, Yoon Hyung Kim, Arild Moe, Charles E. Morrison, David L. VanderZwaag and Oran R. Young (eds.) The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on Global-Arctic Interactions—the Arctic moves from periphery to centre. Busan: Korea Maritime Institute & Honolulu: East-West Centre, pp. 89-107.
  • Bonnett, N., Birchall, SJ. (2020). Coastal communities in the Circumpolar North and the need for sustainable climate adaptation approaches. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104175

  • Timothy Heleniak (Nordregio) - Polar Peoples in the Future: Projections of the Arctic Populations. Working Paper,  Executive Summary

  • Special Section on Land-sea interactions and coastal development, in Marine Policy. See the volume here. Thematic Network member contributions include: 1. Schluter et al.: Land-sea interactions and coastal development: An evolutionary governance perspective: 2. van Assche et al.: Governance and the coastal condition: Towards new modes of observation, adaptation and integration, 3. Birchall: Coastal climate adaptation planning and evolutionary governance: Insights from Homer, Alaska
  • Birchall, SJ. (2019). Coastal climate adaptation planning and evolutionary governance: Insights from Alaska. Marine Policy, Land and Sea Interaction Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.029.
  • Birchall, SJ, Bonnett, N. (2019). Local-scale climate change stressors and policy response: The case of Homer, Alaska. Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1537975.
  • Birchall, SJ., Bonnett, N. (2019). Thinning sea ice and thawing permafrost: Climate change adaptation planning in Nome, Alaska. Environmental Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2019.1637331.

Thematic Network Cross-links

Press/Media

University of Alberta, Faculty of Science media release: New international network on climate change led by UAlberta scientist