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A new methods paper co-authored by Catherine Chambers has just been published.

The article "Invasive Species Management: The Case of Pink Salmon in Iceland" by Hjörleifur Finnsson, Catherine Chambers, and Guðni Guðbergsson (MFRI) about pink salmon management in Iceland has just been published in Marine Policy.

The chapter "Value Creation and Internal Resilience in South Greenland: The case of Nanortalik – a town in the municipality of Kujalleq" has now been published.

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.

This paper celebrates Professor Yongqi GAO’s significant achievements in the field of inter-disciplinary studies within the content of his final research project Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient Sustainable Societies - ARCPATH. The disciplines represented in the project are related to climatology, anthropology, marine biology, eco-nomics, and the broad spectrum of social-ecological studies.

By Sílvia Gómez, Beatriz Patraca, Jade Zoghbi, Eduard Ariza, Maria Wilke, Níels Einarsson (SAI), Sveinbjörg Smáradóttir (SAI), Edward Huijbens & Catherine Chambers (SAI). This explorative study contributes to developing methods using social media data and social network theory in tourism studies to unravel cultural ecosystem values. Focused on the case of an emblematic village for whale-watching activity, Húsavík, in Skjálfandi Bay, Iceland, this study explores the cultural ecosystem service values of individuals as expressed through social media (TripAdvisor and Instagram) related to the practice of whale-watching. The aim is to document the cultural ecosystem service values and environmental judgements which provide information that could be used in future marine planning efforts.

Catherine Chambers and Elena Alessandra Lebedef published the article "Youth and Newcomers in Icelandic Fisheries: opportunities and Obstacles" in Maritime Studies.

The report Mapping Arctic Research in Iceland has been published in cooperation between The Icelandic Centre for Research, Stefansson Arctic Institute and the Icelandic ...