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The Stefansson Arctic Insitute is honoured to welcome Professor Jules Pretty OBE, Emeritus Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex and Director of the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement, as a new Senior Associate Scientist

At the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the position of Professor/Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in Arctic Sustainability Science is now open for applications.

New book, The Autonomy of the Åland Islands: Constitutional and International Law Challenges, edited by Guðmundur Alfreðsson and Göran Lindholm, has just been published.

The article "Gaps in legislation and communication identified as stakeholders reflect on 30×30 policy in Icelandic waters" by Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir, Theresa Henke, Catherine P. Chambers og Steinunn Hilma Ólafsdóttir was published today.

A new edition of an article by Níels Einarsson, originally published in 1990 in Maritime Anthropological Studies, has now be published with new forewords in French translation in Vertigo - a journal devoted to environmental sciences.

During 21-26 August, the first field season of the Arctic ICEBERG EU Horizon project had a successful kick-off in Northeast Iceland, one of the project’s three field sites.

The environmental council of the University of Akureyri invites everybody to the 4th sustainability conference at the University of Akureyri on 12.04.24. Participation is free of charge and no registration is required. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, to accommodate both on-site interaction but also online, environmentally friendly participation of international speakers and guests. The conference's language is English. https://www.unak.is/english/upcoming-events/4rd-sustainability-conference

On March 14, we had the pleasure of receiving a group of students participating in the Arctic Forum course as part of the EnCHiL Nordic MSc programme.

Maria Wilke, a former staff member at the SAI defended her doctoral dissertation in the field of planning at the Department of Planning and Design at the Agricultural University of Iceland. Maria's dissertation is titled "Public participation in marine spatial planning in Iceland”.

Catherine Chambers gave the presentation "Coastal Culture Here and Now and the Future of Coastal Communities," and Árni Daníel Júlíusson gave a presentation on the History of coastal culture.