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Professor Sandra Harding visits Arctic Centre and University of Lapland
24.9.2012 12:43
Professor Sandra Harding will visit Arctic Centre and University of Lapland on 1-5 October. During her visit, professor Harding will give five visitor lectures on topics such as strong objectivity, standpoint methodologies and postcolonial and feminist science and technology studies. Also a one-day workshop about the theme “Indigenous Knowledge Systems” will be arranged at Arctic Centre.
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Dissertation: Viewing regional climate variability in Svalbard through the lens of ice chemistry and statistics
10.9.2012 11:00
Emilie Beaudon’s doctoral research closes a geographical gap in the current knowledge of the European Arctic climate variability by investigating the chemistry of the snow and new ice cores extracted from Svalbard ice caps. This work provides new essential keys for future ice core based environmental reconstructions and climate model projections for the Barents region.
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Lectures on the Indian Reservations in the United States
7.9.2012 10:29
Professor Klaus Frantz from the Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria, will give two lectures at the University of Lapland on September 13 and 17. Professor Frantz has studied especially the social, economical and political status of the Northern American Indians.
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Doctoral thesis: The Arctic Council needs more local and regional participation
3.9.2012 10:55
According to the doctoral thesis by LLM Waliul Hasanat, the local and regional governments should be more integrated into the work of the Arctic Council. Furthermore, it will be essential to find synergies between all northern cooperation forms.
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Fifth Polar Law Symposium brings top professionals to Rovaniemi
3.9.2012 9:11
The Fifth Polar Law Symposium will take place in Arctic Centre on 6–8 September 2012. The Symposium brings together internationally renowned scholars, partaking in both Antarctic and Arctic research, from different parts of the globe.
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Video: In the kitchens of Barents
15.8.2012 16:00
There is a bear in the road and visitors in the kitchens – but where and why? This new video answers these questions among others.
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Developed and developing world responsibilities for climate change
14.8.2012 15:55
New research shows that greenhouse gas emissions from the developed world have dominated the impacts of climate change. Furthermore the developed world carbon dioxide reduction promises would achieve just 1/3 of any warming slowdown, even though they are responsible for more than 2/3 of climate change before 2005.
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New Barents research project starts at the Arctic Centre
7.8.2012 0:00
The Barents International Political Economy (BIPE) researcher network has received funding to start a two-year joint research project in the Barents region. The aim of the new project is to study the role of states in advancing sustainable development focusing on local communities perspectives in different parts of the Barents region.
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Warming climate sees Arctic tundra turn to forest
4.6.2012 11:27
In just a few decades, shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of climate warming, creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the circumpolar North, would significantly accelerate global warming.
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Peek at Northern nature in Arktikum
22.5.2012 9:00
The summer exhibition of the Arctic Centre tells about the beautiful nature of Lapland. ‘Nature at a Glance’ exhibition is open from 25th May to 28th October 2012 at Arktikum.
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