Arctic Sustainability Research

Andrey N. Petrov is Director of the ARCTICenter and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. His expertise is in economic geography and regional development in the Arctic, sustainability science, social indicators, impacts of development, benefit sharing, and sustainable economy in remote regions. He co-edited Arctic Social Indicators: Implementation (2015) and authored more than 40 publications on Arctic issues. Dr Petrov leads three NSF projects focused on resilience and sustainability. He also holds leadership roles in the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, International Arctic Science Committee and American Association of Geographers. Shauna BurnSilver is an Environmental Anthropologist who studies how socio-economic and climate changes affect relationships between people and the natural resources they depend on. Key questions of interest are how households, communities, and stakeholders define concepts of "well-being", "progress", "development" and "sustainability" given the intersection of strong socio-economic and political changes and long-term cultural histories of land use in particular landscapes, and how these perspectives translate into decisions within mixed economies at the scale of households and communities that matter for sustainability outcomes. She has worked in Arctic Alaska, Inner Mongolia, China, and Africa. F. Stuart Chapin III is Professor Emeritus of Ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research addresses the effects of changes in climate and wildfire on Alaskan ecology and rural communities. He also collaborates with communities and agencies to develop options that increase sustainability of ecosystems and human communities over the long term despite rapid climatic and social changes. His research in earth stewardship explores ways that society can proactively shape changes toward a more sustainable future through actions that enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being. Gail Fondahl is a Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her PhD is from the University of California-Berkeley. Professor Fondahl's research focuses on the legal geographies of indigenous territorial rights in the Russian North and the cultural and governance dimensions of Arctic sustainability. She serves as Canada's representative to, and Chair of, the International Arctic Science Committee's Social & Human Sciences Working Group. Dr Fondahl was president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (2011-2014) and remains on IASSA's governing council. She co-edited the second Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR-II). Jessica K. Graybill is a Human Ecologist and Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Russian & Eurasian Studies Program at Colgate University. Her focus in Eurasia is on the Far East and North where she conducts research related to resource use, extraction, and climate change in the Russian Far East and North. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator on two National Science Foundation grants in Arctic resilience and sustainability. She is also an interdisciplinary research methodologist. Recent publications include Urban Climate Vulnerability and Governance in the Russian North (2015) and Cities of the World, Sixth Edition (2016). Kathrin Keil is a Scientific Project Leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany, where she leads the Arctic research project GloCAST (Global Change and Arctic Sustainable Transformations). GloCAST uses the Arctic as a prominent case to illustrate interrelations between global and regional change processes and between stakeholders from within and outside the Arctic. Kathrin received her PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is Senior Fellow of The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar Security Studies and part of the German delegation to the Sustainable Development Working G...