Seminar: Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences
17.8.2009 16:00
There is a seminar of the challenges of polar governance at the Arctic Centre on Thursday the 27th of August, 2009.
The seminar presents and discusses a new book on challenges of polar governance. The book is called ”Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences: Historical, Legal and Political Reflections on International Polar Year”. It is edited by Jessica Shadian and Monica Tennberg and it is published by Ashgate.
Some of the issues raised in the book will be discussed in a seminar. The speakers are professor Sanjay Chaturvedi (Punjab university, India), researcher Annika Nilsson (Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden), research professor Timo Koivurova, (Northern Institute of Minority and Environmental Law) and research professor Monica Tennberg (Arctic Centre).
The book about the governance of Polar Regions is divided into two sections. In the first part the role of knowledge in Arctic governance is discussed. Both Jessica Shadian and Annika Nilsson study and discuss the role of traditional knowledge. Robert Huebert discusses the lack of political research in the science plan of the International Polar Year (2007–08). Urban Wråkberg tells about the history of the Arctic research stations.
In the second part, the focus is on the Antarctic governance. Sanjay Chaturvedi and Donald Rothwell discuss the challenges of uses of new natural resources in the Antarctic treaty system. Marcus Haward and Julia Jabour analyse the development of international scientific cooperation in Antarctic cooperation. Leon Consuelo Woppke describes the development of Chilean politics towards the Antarctica. Monica Tennberg gives an overview of the main themes of the book from the perspective of knowledge and power relations.
In connection to the seminar, Arctic Centre’s 20th Anniversary Book exhibition on the challenges of international cooperation in Polar Regions will be opened in the Arctic Centre’s library.
More information:
Research professor Monica Tennberg, tel. +358 (0)400 192 005
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