28 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:30 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Second Floor - 235
Organisers: Alexander Shiklomanov (University of New Hampshire, USA); Andrey N. Petrov (ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa, USA); Marya Rozanova-Smith (The George Washington University, USA)
Session Description:
Many Arctic communities are located along the rivers. Rivers play a major role in supporting the Indigenous livelihoods in the Arctic throughout the millennia and enable transportation, commercial activity, and subsistence practices today. In recent decades, Arctic rivers and their basins have experienced dramatic changes with respect to hydroclimatic regimes, biological diversity, environmental conditions, and industrial development. Although significant efforts have been lately devoted to highlighting, understanding, and addressing multiple challenges faced by coastal Arctic communities, riverine social-ecological systems (SES), specifically, received relatively limited attention. This Session will gather papers focused on riverine Arctic SES and communities to elicit state-of-the-art knowledge about key changes and challenges and identify research priorities within the context of the ICARP IV process.
The Session is organized by the Project "Socio-Ecological Systems Transformation in River basins of the sub-Arctic under climate change" (SESTRA).