Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard

SVALUR will: i) capture detailed understanding of environmental change experienced by people living, working and/or exploring different parts of Svalbard through in-depth interviews, document analysis and web-based story mapping; ii) compare such information with environmental monitoring data, in terms of overlap, mismatch and possible synergies; and iii) creatively aggregate and communicate shared understanding to inhabitants and visitors to Svalbard, an ideal site for learning what resilience may mean when short-term residency, compromising place-based knowledge generation, is the norm; and iv) help people mobilize their knowledge to become more active agents for change.