Project Profile: AWERRS
Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems – Resilience through Restoration & Stewardship
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Marcus Carson, Stiftelsen Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden |
| Partners: | Kathrine Ivsett Johnsen, Norsk institutt for vannforskning, Norway Henry Lee, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, USA Tatiana Minayeva, Institute of Forest Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia James Powell, Northland Sustainability Consulting, USA Jannie Stefansson, Saami Council, Sweden Tom Arnbom, World Wide Fund for Nature, Sweden Tom Barry, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Iceland Aaron Maltais, Stockholm Sustainable Finance Center, Sweden David Schönberg Alm, Swedish EPA, Sweden |
| Sponsors: | Icelandic Centre for Research, Iceland The Research Council of Norway, Norway Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russia Swedish Research Council for Env, Agric Sci & Spatial Planning, Sweden National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems – Resilience through Restoration & Stewardship |
| Full Call Title: | Arctic2019 |
| Website: | https://www.sei.org/projects-and-tools/projects/arctic-wetlands-ecosystems/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | This project tackles the challenge of building resilience in a rapidly changing Arctic by focusing on human activities that impact Arctic wetlands ecosystems, supporting and strengthening communities' capacity to engage in wetlands restoration and stewardship. Capacity to ""self-organize"" and effectively engage is a central element of community resilience and a resource that needs to be used to remain viable; supporting engagement helps build community resilience (strengthening social & human capital).The goal of simultaneously enhancing social and ecosystem resilience will be pursued through a set of integrated work streams (work packages-WP). * Identifying and testing modes of community engagement, including identifying methods for securing financing * Support of indigenous/traditional wetlands uses and modes of stewardship * Identification of high impacts areas for restoration, development of monitoring metrics and methods * Synthesis of knowledge across natural and social sciences and indigenous knowledge, and also between knowledge holders, policymakers and practitioners * Communication with key constituencies, including policymakers and the public |
| Call Objective: | This joint Belmont Forum CRA calls for co-developed and co-implemented proposals from integrated teams of natural and social scientists, and stakeholders to address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a trans-disciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. |
Where?
| Regions: | Arctic, Europe, North America |
| Countries: | Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, United States of America (USA) |
When?
| Duration: | 36 |
| Call Date: | 20 February 2019 |
| Project Award Date: | 5 February 2020 |
