Publications

New Book: Climate Change And Flood Risk Management

25 November, 2013

Carina Keskitalo, leader of the Mistra Arctic Futures project: Preparing for and Responding to Disturbance: Lessons for Sweden  edited the newly released volume Climate Change and Flood Risk Management: Adaptation and Extreme Events at the Local Level. The volume, published by Edward Elgar, discusses and problematises the integration of adaptation to climate change in flood risk … Read more

When the Ice Breaks: Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change

8 November, 2013

Several of the Mistra Arctic Futures researchers, including two of the editors (Nina Wormbs and Annika Nilson) , were involved in the recently published book on Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. The publisher is Palgrave Macmillan. The Arctic sea-ice reached record lows in 2007, and again in 2012. In the international news … Read more

Contrasting Arctic and Mainstream Swedish Descriptions of Northern Sweden

4 November, 2013

Researchers from two Mistra Arctic Futures projects, Arctic Lessons for Sweden (led by Carina Keskitalo) and From Resource Hinterland to Global Pleasure Periphery (led by Dieter Müller) published an article on “Contrasting Arctic and Mainstream Swedish Descriptions of Northern Sweden:The View from Established Domestic Research,” in the latest edition of the well-regarded journal Arctic. In … Read more