WP8 - Partnerships for Solutions

WP8 - Partnerships for Solutions

Essential part of climate adaptation is to develop partnerships and solutions with local stake- and rightsholders.

Objectives

The aim of WP8 is to facilitate mechanisms and processes through which Arctic communities can make informed decisions and can find solutions for adaptation to permafrost thaw, and to attempt to upscale local insights to pan-Arctic levels.

The specific objectives of WP8 are to:
O8.1: Build trust and facilitate instruments and institutions for participatory decision-making in each study community, engage local community in participatory scenario-building and develop community-based citizen science to strengthen community-oriented decision support systems
O8.2: Explore ways of minimizing risks from permafrost thaw in terms of the wider socio-economic, demographic and cultural impacts in a participatory setting
O8.3: Upscale from local experiences and provide pan-Arctic measures for participatory decision-making and nature- based solutions for adaptation
O8.4: Assess adaptive governance of APES and identify socio-ecological resilience enablers
O8.5: Engage next generation permafrost scientists and engineers in community-based permafrost challenges


WP8 Coordination

joan

Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen

Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland


other researchers involved in wp8

 alex

Dr. Alexandra Meyer

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna

 Susa

Susanna Gartler

PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna

hanne

Prof. Hanne Christiansen

The University Centre in Svalbard

 olga

Dr. Olga Povoroznyuk

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna

 peter

Univ.-Prof. Peter Schweitzer

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna