20 March 2025 | 09:00 - 12:00 (MST)
Open Session - On-SITE ONLY
Room: UMC Fourth Floor - 417
Organisers: Vera Kuklina, Bessie Weston (The George Washington University, USA)
Event Description:
Arctic infrastructure is rapidly changing due to climate change and socio-economic shifts. Its condition varies widely, from areas with outdated facilities to areas needing new development. Indigenous communities are often the ones that face negative infrastructure's impact on their cultures and ecosystems. As the Arctic transforms, understanding infrastructure priorities is crucial for building a resilient and sustainable future. This requires collaborative efforts to learn from past mistakes and ensure a just transition.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in the Arctic (e.g., Alaska, Norway, Greenland, and Canada) and Indigenous community members to collaboratively identify the challenges and good practices of co-production of place-specific and theoretically grounded knowledge of Arctic Infrastructure. Together, they will map existing expertise developed by academia, Indigenous Peoples, communities and other stakeholders in and learn from each other about infrastructure planning, managing, maintaining and adapting to climate conditions and how it involves/excludes stake-, rights- and knowledge holders. As a result they will formulate locally and regionally relevant priorities for future research on just infrastructures by ICARP.