With interactive maps, techniques and building a guideline -we hope to promote the use of participatory mapping in the scientific world.
The Arctic Sustainability Lab
The Arctic is facing tremendous changes through rapid warming and the prospective increase in resource exploitation, commercial activities, globalization and change within social frames. This lab commends that a science is needed that addresses the sustainability challenges arising from global changes by focusing on ecosystems and the welfare of the people living in the Arctic….
CoastSupport
-Empowering Sustainable Coastal Zone Management. The Norwegian coastline is a treasure trove of ecological diversity, natural resources, and cultural heritage. Stretching across thousands of kilometers, it is home to vibrant ecosystems, iconic landscapes, and communities whose livelihoods and traditions are deeply intertwined with the sea. However, this rich coastal environment faces increasing pressures from human…
ISOSCAN
Water is essential to life. We drink water to survive, we use it to clean ourselves and to prepare food. We use water to irrigate fields and grow crops, and to harness its energy to produce electricity. We depend on water in many ways. Too much water can cause floods, resulting in damage and loss…
EXTREMES
Extremes aims to develop and disseminate a transformative interdisciplinary approach to studying Extreme Environments in the Arctic regions and beyond. Extreme Environments are places where conditions are very harsh and challenging for life. These areas can be incredibly hot, cold, deep underwater, or have high levels of chemicals that most living organisms would find toxic. …
BioProtect
BioProtect aims to develop and promote an area-based management decision support framework to advance ecosystem-based Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and mitigate multiple, interacting pressures from human activities in European seas. The Arctic Sustainability Labs work integrates ecological connectivity models, anthropogenic footprint and pressure maps, and citizen-driven mapping to create a more holistic understanding of the socio-ecological systems in the North Atlantic and…
The Ocean Leadership Program
Ocean Leadership is an experience-based master’s program for professionals working in marine or maritime sectors who want to advance the green shift towards a sustainable future. The transdisciplinary program provides an understanding of the complex landscape of ocean challenges and builds the knowledge, skills, and capacity necessary to lead sustainable integrative solutions. All life on…
Atlantic Arctic Agora
The aim of AA-Agora it to become a lighthouse and role model in protecting and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity in the Arctic and Atlantic coastal areas. We will demonstrate how innovation, ecosystem-based management and nature-based solutions can contribute to a sustainable transition in three coastal areas.
GreenFeedBack
GreenFeedBack wishes to enhance our understanding of key processes of the terrestrial biosphere – freshwater – ocean continuum in surface-atmosphere GHG exchange, the connection between them, and the impacts from human pressures. The lab will be exploring the role of human footprints and pressures in mitigating risks, that today, has been poorly explored. Increased pressure…
CoastShift
-Exploring area use, sustainability and increased food production CoastShift will evaluate pathways toward an area-optimal sustainable production of more local, healthy food, while minimizing the impact on the arctic ecosystem along the coast. We do this by studying how existing and new Blue-growth combined with agriculture, will create synergies between the ocean and land. We…
From Catchment 2 Coast
Integrating cross-ecosystem approaches into climate change research and ecosystem-based management for northern ecosystems. Climate change is already affecting all ecosystems across the globe. This is resulting in increased (and more variable) temperature, changes in precipitation patterns, and an increased frequency of extreme climate events (e.g. floods, droughts, storms). Climate change impacts terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and…
Living on The Edge
With the notion of that “Life should be understood backwards but it must be lived forward,” Living on The Edge digs into the cultural landscapes, archives and museums as a tool for co-management!
CloudEARTHi
Building inovation capacity for the us of Big Data in environmental sciences, sustainability and circular economy in higher education institutions and their entrepreneurial ecosystems How can we become better to utilize big data in the context of environmental sciences, sustainability, the circular economy and the digital ecosystems? And how can this foster academic entrepreneurship? CloudEARTHi…
SVALUR
Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard This research programme combines formal environmental monitoring with knowledge and observations of people from all walks of life who know parts of the Arctic well. Through this approach we will not miss the most important changes in these remote, but to…
FATE
Identifying Future ArcTic Ecosystems: drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethno-ecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA The Arctic is currently experiencing dramatic ecosystem changes due to climate warming and increased anthropogenic pressure, influencing biodiversity and ecosystem services. Understanding the relative impacts of climate, herbivory and human management on ecosystems, is of paramount importance for…
InclusiveCoasts
Contributing to inclusive governance of small-scale fisheries in coastal communities in Northern-Norway for resilience to environmental and socioeconomic changes. Why? Small-scale fisheries are important for food, employment, and coastal culture worldwide. Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries are included as a part of UN Sustainable Developmental goals, however attaining this goal may prove challenging as small-scale fisheries…
ArcticStake
ArcticStakes aims to strengthen interdisciplinary-and collaborative science relating to sustainable development and to provide appropriate guidelines of the conceptual and methodological fundament for applying different stakeholder involvement tools. It emphasizes on advancing methodologies for stakeholder involvement and public participation in science that can effectively address the sustainability challenges of increased industrial growth in the Arctic….
EcoShift
Exploring scenarios for linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and adaptive action. The overall aim of EcoShift is to identify the linkages between ecosystem shifts, biodiversity-and ecosystem services, and local adaptations. Thus, creating scenarios of plausible future changes for the arctic tundra of the Norwegian Arctic and compare these with scenarios developed in multiple sites in the…
CurBES
Identifying cumulative impacts of the infrastructure associated with industrial development on biodiversity and ecosystem services. CurBES is a project researching how industrial development in the Arctic affects nature through development of infrastructure. CurBES is a collaborative effort between three institutions in Tromsø: UiT – the Arctic university of Norway, NINA and Nofima. The combination of…
CONNECT
Exploring Global connectedness and changing resource use systems in the Arctic, is a project viewing the Arctic as coupled to the rest of the world through flows of goods, services, information and people. CONNECT is based on a research collaboration between researchers in US, Canada, Russia, Greenland and Norway that study how global connections through…
Kystbarometer
Why? Globalization, industrial development and climate warming are changing the coastal communities world-wide. We need to know where these changes are taking us. We need awareness about our options and how to navigate for a sustainable future. How? Ocean Health Index defined ten sustainability goals for healthy marine ecosystems and established indicators to measure the global…
MarEs
Because uses and values of marine ecosystem services in the Norwegian Arctic are changing. Use and values of marine ecosystem services are changing, caused by not only climate but also global changes. This interdisciplinary research project rooted in economics, with contributions from natural and social science, aims to investigate how global changes and human activities…
THE ARCTIC SUSTAINABILITY LAB 