Global Connections and Changing Resource Use System in the Arctic

CONNECT

Call

  • Arctic 1

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Vera Hausner, University of Tromsø, Norway

Partners

Else Grete Broderstad, University of Tromsø, Norway Douglas Clark, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Dorothée Ehrich, University of Tromsø, Norway Per Fauchald, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway Konstantin Klokov, EthnoExpert, LLC, Russia Christopher Monz, Utah State University, United States Jennifer Schmidt, ISER, University of Alaska-Anchorage, United States Nigel Yoccoz, University of Tromsø, Norway

Funders

  • NSERC (The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), NSF (National Science Foundation), RCN (Research Council of Norway)

Project Objective

The CONNECT team will investigate how adaption and adoption mechanisms to global connections change land use and ecosystem services, thereby identifying sustainable pathways of relevance to the local and regional contexts.

Call Objective

Through this Call for Proposals on Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability, the Belmont Forum seeks to bring together integrated teams of natural scientists, social scientists, and stakeholders to develop projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, data sets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region across one or more of four possible themes.

Region

  • Asia, Europe, North America

Country

  • Canada, Norway

Duration

36 months

Call Date

May 1, 2014

Project Award Date

2014