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Photo: Dag Avango

Invitation to concluding workshop, 5 March 2014, Långholmen, Stockholm

7 February, 2014

A humanities and social science perspective to bridging science and policy in a changing Arctic För svensk sammanfattning, se nedan. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) initiated the Arctic Futures in a Global context programme in order to stimulate research that contributes to the sustainable development in the Arctic. The research addressed tensions … Read more

Thoughts on the conference “In spirit of the Rovaniemi process”

27 January, 2014

Gerda Kinell, a researcher in the Arctic Games project at  Enveco Miljöekonomi AB reports on a high-level conference she attended in December, and the avenues for exploration opened up by Mistra Arctic Futures: Arctic Games. – The conference “In spirit of the Rovaniemi process – Arctic cities, global processes and local realities” took place on … Read more

Christian Science Monitor on Antarctica and the Arctic

21 January, 2014

The Christian Science Monitor, a respected US weekly, extensively quoted Dag Avango in their feature story on resource politics in the polar regions. Avango, based at the Division for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment at KTH, is attached to the Mistra Arctic Futures in a Global Context programme where his work focus … Read more