Stepien, Adam
Researcher, PhD student

Arctic Doctoral Programme, ARKTIS  and Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law

Contact:
Tel. +358 (0) 404844298 (or +358 449516842), (3107)

e-mail: astepien(at)ulapland.fi
room 56-12, Arctic Centre

Research topic:

• Sharing experiential knowledge as a form of development cooperation: From the Arctic to Global South

Research interests

• minority and indigenous rights and issues;
• international movement of indigenous peoples;
• development aid;
• experiential knowledge transfer, diffusion and translation;
• trans-border cooperation and integration of partitioned ethnic groups (e.g. Saami, Lemko);
• political development and cooperation in the Arctic and Baltic region.

• Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of Development of the Arctic (Methodology Review)

• Arctic Politics and Law (Arctic Studies Programme, 2011-2014)
• International Indigenous Politics (Arctic Studies Programme, 2010-2011)

• Stepien, Adam (2013), “Rola ludów rdzennych w budowaniu Arktyki jako regionu politycznego” [“The role of indigenous peoples in building the Arctic as a political region”], Współpraca i rywalizacja międzynarodowa w Arktyce, 2013 (in review).
• Stepien, Adam (2012), “Pan-Saami cooperation: Towards a Trans-border polity,” In: E. Nowicka (ed.) “The Politics of Culture. Perspectives in stateless nationalities/ethic groups,” Warsaw University Publishing, pp. 236-254.
• Stepien, Adam (2011) “Arctic Indigenous Peoples influencing Danish and Norwegian Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples in the Global South. Ideas and actors.” Polar Law Yearbook 3 (2011): 297-342.
• Koivurova, Timo and Adam Stepien (2011), “How International Law Has Influenced the National Policy and Law Related to Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic?” Waikato Law Review 19 (2011): 123-143.
• Koivurova, Timo, Kai Kokko, Sebastien Duyck, Nikolas Sellheim, and Adam Stepien (2011), “The present and future competence of the European Union in the Arctic,” Polar Record, Cambridge University Press 2011, DOI: 10.1017/S0032247411000295.
• 2010: Koivurova Timo., Kai Kokko, Sebastien Duyck, Nikolas Sellheim, and Adam Stepien, EU competencies affecting the Arctic, EP/EXPO/B/AFET/FWC/2009-01/LOT2/04, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, see http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=sv&file=33381.
• Ecologic Institute and others (2010), Arctic Footprint and Policy Assessment Report, see http://arctic-footprint.eu/sites/default/files/AFPA_Final_Report.pdf (one of multiple authors).
• Koivurova, Timo, Henna Tervo and Adam Stepien (2009), ”Polar Indigenous Peoples Are Threatened by Climate Change,” in The North and South Poles, Opposing Viewpoints series, Greenhaven Press, Gale, pp. 101-106 .
• Stepien, Adam (2009) “Egység és szakadás között. Pánszámi együttm?ködés az északi országokban és Oroszországban” [“Between unity and division: Pan-Saami cooperation in Nordic States and Russia”], Pro Minoritate, Autumn 2009, pp. 74-95.
• Tervo, Henna, Kamrul Hossain, and Adam Stepien (2009), “Illegal Immigration by Sea as a Challenge to the Maritime Border Security of the European Union with a Special Focus on Maritime Surveillance Systems”, in: T. Koivurova et al. (eds) Understanding and Strengthening European Union-Canada Relations in Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi.
• Koivurova, Timo and Adam Stepien (eds.) (2008), Reforming Mining Law in a Changing, World, with Special Reference to Finland, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi.
• Koivurova, Timo, Henna Tervo, and Adam Stepien (2008), “Indigenous peoples and the Arctic” Background Paper in the framework of TRANSFORM project, see http://arctic-transform.org/docs.html.