Proposal Presentation

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Proposal Presentation Group 5 Julia Bosiö Dept.
of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analysis,
Lund University, Sweden Markus
Eckerstorfer Arctic Geology Dept., University
Centre in Svalbard, Norway Daniela Hanslik Dept.
of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm
University, Sweden Ioanna Merkouriadi Dept. of
Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Climate change scenarios anthropogenic forcing
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Geopolitical economical opportunities for
industrial countries
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Subsistence activities on the edge
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Climate change influence on Arctic indigenous
peoples livelihood Case studies on economic gain
and/or loss from northern Fennoscandia and
Greenland
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Arctic indigenous people are economically
effected by climate change

• Study aims to quantify the economic gain and/or
  loss of native Arctic people and the effort to
  hold their current living standards for the next
  20 years
• Development of sustainability indicators for
  qualified information of how economic
  development in the Arctic has been sustainable in
  the past.
• Development of welfare measures to provide
  assessment of negative/positive climate change
  effects.
• Reflections on climate change and the
  consequences for future access to Arctic natural
  resources.
• Modelling of different climate change scenarios
  for a better understanding of climate feedback
  mechanisms the Arctic indigenous peoples have
  possibly to deal with.

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The Inuit of Greenland

• Canada, Greenland and Alaska
  150.000 people
• Main activities fishing, seal hunting
• Investigation of biotopes resilience and species
  identification in the past/present.
• Future impact on seals and fish stocks, potential
  alternative income sources?

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The Sami of northern Fennoscandia

• Sami population in Norway, Sweden, Finland and
  Russia ? 60-70.000 people
• Primary industrial activity is reindeer husbandry
  
• - combined with other income sources
• Reindeer herding strongly dependant on seasonal
  pasture - need for understanding of vulnerability
  to climate change
• - migration routes (permafrost
  dependant)
• - forage availability (/-)
• - forest expansion and decreasing fell
  areal
• - climate effect on the prevalence of
  insects

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Budget time plan
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Deliverables outreach

• Potential publications will be submitted to
  international peer-review journals like Journal
  of Socio-economics, Population and Development
  Review, Polar Record, Global Environmental
  Change, and Climate Change.
• Results of the project presented at two
  international conferences (EGU, 2013)
• A series of popular science talks in cooperation
  with the Inuit Circumpolar Council
  (www.inuit.org) and the Saami council
  (www.saamicouncil .net).
• A documentary on the fieldwork and on-site data
  collection from a cinematography student will be
  presented at these occasions.