The School was organized as part of a NordForsk-funded project. Twelve participants from the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the UiT Arctic University of Norway, and Lund University in Sweden attended the summer school.
The PhD School aimed to primarily work on and develop scenario analyses, risk and resilience management strategies, and climate change adaptation regarding extreme climate change-related hazards and their impacts on critical infrastructure and vital societal functions in the Nordic region. The School discussed the critical perspectives from several different disciplines, including but not limited to, social sciences, law studies, engineering, and natural sciences. Prof. Kamrul Hossain – the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education and Thematic Network leader on Arctic Law – is one of the lead partners to the project.