“Artic Resilience: socio-ecological change and adaptive capacity needs” session at Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 will be converted into a book

FRONT research programme attended at the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024, Norway, and organized transdisciplinary, international session called “Artic Resilience: socio-ecological change and adaptive capacity needs”. Successful session led to a plan of converting the keynotes into a book. 
Researchers at the stage at Arctic Gongress with mountains profile in the background


The Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 session organized by FRONT and discussed Arctic resilience and adaptive capacity needs in the context of ongoing global climate change and related processes and impacts. In the center of topics was Arctic (transdisciplinary) resilience research and needs in various scales and perspectives, covering socio-ecological, individual, community, organizational or institutional, livelihoods and regional contexts. Professor Jarkko Saarinen, leader of FRONT research programme (University of Oulu) was the convener of the session. The session was so successful with relevant discussions that FRONt programme is now planning to convert the topics into a book.

Arctic and northern regions will experience the highest rate of warming compared with other regions of the world


The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that the Arctic and northern regions will experience the highest rate of warming compared with other regions of the world. The latest evidence demonstrates that the Arctic region has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since the early 1980s, and that even if we manage to cut carbon emissions and reach the Paris Agreement limit of global warming to 1.5 C, the Arctic Ocean may lose all summer sea ice already in 2030s.


The “Artic Resilience: socio-ecological change and adaptive capacity needs” session at the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 included these brilliant presentations:

  • Rethinking the Arctic tourism system for improved resilience and sustainability,
    Alix Varnajot and Élise Lépy (researchers of FRONT), University of Oulu

  • Rich local knowledge despite high transience in an Arctic community experiencing rapid environmental change, Ann Eileen Lennert - The Arctic Sustainability Lab, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway

  • A braided stream: adaptive capacity, institutional complexity, and policy options for adapting to riverbank erosion in Alaska’s Yukon River Watershed, Marie Lowe, University of Alaska Anchorage

  • Adaptation narratives for climate overshoot scenarios in the city of Bodø, Norway, Miechel De Paep, Sweco Belgium

  • Bridging the gap between vulnerability and resilience of tourism systems in Arctic regions, Alberto Amore,(researcher of FRONT), University of Oulu

  • Resilience in Nordic and Arctic Coastal Communities: Navigating Change and Sustaining Heritage, Gestur Hovgaard, Ilisimatusarfik.

  • Spatial dynamics of social and socio-ecological resilience,
    Aleksi Räsänen (Tenure track Assoc. Prof of FRONT)- University of Oulu.

Last updated: 8.7.2024