Posts Tagged ‘indigenous’
The power of Indigenous voices and data supporting the green transitional Decision-making in the Arctic: The power of indigenous voices and data supporting the green transition
A new policy brief: “Data-driven Subnational Decision-making in the Arctic: The power of Indigenous voices and data supporting the green transition” will change the way we look at green transition. Published by the team at the University of Lapland, a partner in the Arctic PASSION project. Photo: Snowchange Cooperative The policy brief summarises the preliminary…
Read MoreKnowledge co-creation for policy
Arctic PASSION interviewed Kotryna Markeviciuto, former research trainee at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), regarding advice on partnership for knowledge co-creation for policy, emphasizing that arts-based methods could provide the space for dialogue. We are delighted to share this video as a small taste of what is to come in a coming workshop on knowledge…
Read MoreThe development of Shared Arctic Variables in Arctic PASSION
People living in the Arctic are facing a rapidly changing environment and increasing human activity in the region. Observations inform actions in the face of these changes, but observing system design and coordination approaches developed for more focused networks at mid- and low latitudes are not necessarily directly applicable in more complex Arctic settings. Requirements for these are…
Read MoreIndigenous Knowledge is a treasure chest for Arctic partnerships
We were fortunate to meet with Tero Mustonen, President of Snowchange Cooperative and recent winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, and capture an interview which we would like to share for their invaluable perspectives and advice on how scientific research and Indigenous Knowledge can better cooperate. Tero has been working for Snowchange for the past 22…
Read MoreA Trip to Sevettijärvi: Meeting people of the Skolt Sámi
On Monday March 27th morning, the three of us Arctic PASSION scientists Michael Karcher, Lisa Grosfeld and Nadine Hillenbrand from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany started our 35-hour long journey to visit the Arctic PASSION partners of the Skolt Sámi community in Sevettijärvi, Finland. The visit was all about learning about the community,…
Read MoreMonitoring environmental changes in Tahltan Territory
Tero Mustonen, President of Snowchange Cooperative and Aslak Holmberg, President of the Saami Council, met with Curtis Rattray, an Indigenous leader from the Tahltan Nation and TWILD‘s co-lead for community-led environmental monitoring to check out the feasibility of setting up a field monitoring camp in the Tuya Mountain area. They wanted to fly into Upper Tuya…
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