NSF Arctic-FROST ANNUAL NETWORK MEETING AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS WORKSHOP:
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic:
Can, Should and Will Resource-Based Development Be Sustainable?
ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, AUGUST 15-17, 2015
European University in St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
August 14th
5:00 pm Ice Breaker Reception (Boat along the Neva river)
August 15th
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-9:15 Session 1.1 Opening and Introductions
Chair: Nikolay Vakhtin
Nikita Lomagin, Vice Rector for Governmental Relations
Andrey Petrov, Arctic-FROST PI
9:30-10:15 Townhall/Plenary Session 1.1: Arctic Sustainability Science: Past, Present and Future
Chair: Tatiana Vlasova
Andrey Petrov and Peter Schweitzer
“Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future”
Discussion
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30 Keynote/Plenary Session 1.2: Resources and sustainable development in the Arctic: lessons and possibilities This session will feature four speakers who will set the tone for further presentation discussions: focus on current issues, achievements and questions related to the role of resources is sustainable development in the Arctic
Chair: Yuri Gladky, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Russia)
Alexander Pelyasov, Council for Productive Forces, Russia
Resources and sustainable development in the Arctic: lessons and possibilities
Chris Southcott, Lakehead University, Canada
Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Project: Initial Findings
Florian Stammler, University of Lapland, Finland
Confrontation, co-existence or co-ignorance? Determinants of relations between industry and local people
Discussion
12:30-2:00 Lunch (Group lunch arranged from a nearby restaurant)
2:00-4:00 Illustrated paper session 1.3 Mineral resources and sustainable communities: impacts, contestations and complementarities Q: What is the role (if any) of non-renewable resources in sustainable development of the Arctic?
(illustrated paper: each panelist gives a short (5 mins) presentation: context of the study(s)-results-main conclusion/discussion points [more of a summary/one or two main conclusions related to the theme of the meeting]; overall discussion moderated by the chair follows)
Chair/Discussion lead: Jessica Graybill, Colgate University, USA
Elena Kluchnikova,
Mining projects and local communities in the Russian Arctic: join development
Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordregio, Sweden
Gerald Zojer, University of Lapland
Finland Arctic hydrocarbon resources: Curse or blessing for societal security in the Arctic?
Scott Stephenson, University of Connecticut, USA
Development potential of Yamal LNG
Mia Bennett, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The Last Frontier? Long-Term Perspectives on Arctic Natural Resource Extraction
Victoria Hermann, University of Cambridge, UK
Frozen Assets: Moving Arctic Investment from Resource Extraction to Human Development
Discussion
4:00-4:15 Coffee break
4:15-5:30 Illustrated paper session 1.4: Resources and Indigenous communities
Q; Resources and indigenous communities: is there a way to achieve sustainability?
Chair/Discussion lead: Florian Stammler
Peter Schweitzer, University of Vienna
Lessons from the Never-Ending ANWR Debate
Chris Southcott, Lakehead University
Using non-renewable resources to enhance renewable resource development in Indigenous communities
Anna Varfolomeeva, Central European University, Hungary
Past Experiences Forming Present Interactions: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industry Development in the North-West of Russia.
Alexey Pristupa, Wageningen, University. Netherlands.
Information as legitimacy broker in zoning efforts in the Numto nature park in the Russian Arctic: Planning for sustainability versus vested interests
Andrew Hodgkins, University of Calgary, Canada
Examining Sustainable Communities through Vocational Education and Training Partnership Programs in the Canadian North
Vera Kuklina, Sochava Institute/George Washington University, USA
Resource extraction and infrastructural networks in the North of Irkutskaia oblast
Discussion
6:00 Dinner (Arranged as a group meal at a nearby restaurant)
6:00 ARCTIC-FROST STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (closed)
Petrov, Heleniak, Graybill, Schweitzer, Southcott, Rasmussen, Vlasova, Crawford
August 16th
8:30-10:30 Illustrated paper session 2.1: Resources, cities and sustainable development
Q; Can resource-based cities and towns be drivers of sustainable development?
Chair/Discussion lead: Gertrude Saxinger, University of Vienna
Gertrude Saxinger, University of Vienna, Austria
We also want to mine 100 years – let´s safe the deposits!” local Ideas about Sustainability
Nadezhda Zamyatina, Moscow State University, Russia
Current Migration Trajectories of Young Talents to Russian Arctic cities: the Role of Universities
Yulia Zaika, Moscow State University, Russia
Socio-economic and environmental challenges and problems of single-industry cities of Murmansk region, Russia
Tuomas Suutarinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Resource-based development and the socio-economic sustainability of resource communities of the Murmansk region
Julia Loginova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Institutional Factors of Community Resilience to Natural Resource Development in the Timan-Pechora Province
Elena Kuznetsova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Aggregate sustainability in Arctic and Sub-Arctic: challenges and possibilities
Sigrid Schiesser, University of Vienna, Austria
The development of railroad infrastructure in the Russian North (Sakha Republic): ecology, symbolics and sociality
Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11-12:30 Illustrated paper session 2.2: Renewable resources and sustainability in the Arctic
Q: Can renewable and traditionally-used resources and be deployed in order to achieve sustainable development?
Chair/Discussion lead: Diane Hirshberg, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Nathaniel Trumbull, University of Connecticut, USA
Marine Protected Areas and the Russian North
Catherine Chambers, Blönduós Academic Center, Iceland / University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
The Icelandic lumpfish fishery as a case study to illustrate the multiple goals of sustainable fisheries management
Egor Ivanov, Sochava Institute of Geography, Russia
Sociocultural potential of glacier landscapes of Near-Baikal mountains
Emily Francis, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Wild reindeer dynamics and sustainability of social-ecological systems in Taimyr
Eidemiller, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Russia)
The interests of environmental safety in the development of the Arctic resources as an imperative
Discussion
12:30-2:00 Lunch (Group meal planned by nearby restaurant)
2:00-2:45 Illustrated paper session 2.3: Sustainable development and Arctic governance
Q; What are the governance mechanisms for sustainable development in the Arctic?
Chair/Discussion lead: Natalia Loukacheva, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Illustrated paper Panelists
Natalia Loukacheva, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Arctic Energy Resources and ‘Legal’ Sustainability
Klaus Georg Hansen, Greenland.
Large scale industrial projects and political sustainability in Greenland
Nengye Liu, University of Dundee, UK.
The European Union and Sustainable Management of Fisheries in the Arctic
Genevieve Parente, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sustainable Governance in Alaska
Alla Fedorova, Galina Gnatiuk and Viktoria Filippova, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
Problems of Legal Regulation of Traditional Land Use (Case of Bellet Evenk National Nasleg, Sakha (Yakutia)
Discussion
3:00-5:00 Discussion groups/round table
Chair: Timothy Heleniak, Nordregio, Sweden
5:00-5:15 Coffee break
5:15-6:00 Session 2.4: Synthesis session
Chair: Andrey Petrov & Jessica Graybill
Participants: day’s presenters, ECS, other Arctic-FROST members
6:30 Dinner (Group meal planned at a nearby restaurant)