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Beredt!-project Kick-off
The Beredt!-project is up and running, and after a few online meetings with research partners and stakeholders, we finally got the chance to meet up physically in Oslo for a two-day workshop.
Through the two-day workshop members from our consortium got to know each other better and form a solid foundation to build our further research on.
Our stakeholders from Karlsøy, Tromsø and Vågå municipality, the County Governor of Troms and Finnmark, as well as from the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), provided insightful presentations on needs and barriers in their respective work on preparing for and coping with climate-related natural hazards.
The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) presented various data on past events in the two case regions, which provided us with a solid overview of what challenges these regions are facing and ensuring we all have a joint situational awareness before diving into the discussions on how we can approach the challenges through our research project Beredt! - Scalable services and risk-based governance for climate-driven natural hazards in Norway. Ending the first day of the workshop with a presentation from our PhD-student Leikny, giving an overview of climate projections in the two regions to prepare us for what we can expect in terms of climate risk going forward, as well as presenting recent research on how Norwegian municipalities are building resilience to climate-related natural hazards through climate adaptive efforts.
The focus of the second day of the workshop was pointing forward to start planning the activities of our 3-year research project. NGI arranged a very engaging group work session where three groups, one per municipality, discussed the specific challenges that can occur in the three stages of an avalanche- or flooding event; the before - during - and the aftermath of the event. Here we were able to pinpoint a few common barriers and needs, which will form the basis for what to focus on in our project going forward. Lastly, Maria Sydnes from our research group arranged a session for the groups, where we discussed and tried to identify relevant stakeholders and how these could or should be involved in the different stages of our project. And finally, we started planning for our workshops this fall - one in Troms and one in Innlandet, and we are really excited about diving into the details going forward!
Published: 10.04.2025
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CCA RG PhD candidate presents policy brief at Arctic Frontiers 2025: Beyond borders
On 27 January 2025, PhD candidate Stian K. Kleiven participated in Arctic Frontiers: Beyond boarders with a poster presentation of a policy brief titled “The vulnerability of fish transportation from climate change-induced hazards in Arctic Norway, Sweden, and Finland”.
In this year’s Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, an interdisciplinary team of PhD candidates presented a poster feauturing a policy brief titled “The Vulnerability of Fish Transportation from Climate Change-Induced Hazards in Arctic Norway, Sweden, and Finland”. The team included Stian K. Kleiven from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Are Frode Helvig Kvanum from The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET), and Punam Noor Jahan from the University of Lapland.
The policy brief examined the potential impacts on fish transportation and the broader societal consequences if climate change-induced hazards were to disrupt roads and railroads in Arctic Norway, Sweden, and Finland. As Norway is the largest exporter of fresh unprocessed fish globally, any disruption in transportation infrastructure could lead to spoilage and pose a threat to food security. Therefore, the brief emphasized the importance of implementing measures to prevent such disruption in fish export.
The policy brief was submitted under the science theme “Climate model data to assess climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation strategies”. This theme aimed to explore the use of advanced climate model data to assess the impacts of climate change and evaluate mitigation and adaptation strategies, while encouraging innovative approaches and co-designing projections to meet the needs of end users.
The development of the policy brief began after the PhD candidate team participated in the interdisciplinary NordForsk-funded Scenario Analyses Regarding Climate Change Hazards and Critical Infrastructure in the Arctic (CCCI) PhD Summer School 2024 led by Dr. Dina Abdel-Fattah from MET. The purpose of the CCCI PhD summer school was to develop scenario analyses and strategies for managing risk, resilience, and adaptation to extreme climate change-related hazards impacting critical infrastructure and societal functions in the Nordic region, through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Published: 31.01.2025
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Arctic Frontiers 2025 summary
The annual Arctic Frontiers conference was held in Tromsø this week, and several of our research-group members have participated in various activities over these past few days.
The Arctic Frontiers is an annual conference held in Tromsø, gathering “scientists, businesses, policymakers and representative of local and indigenous peoples for holistic discussions about the future of the Arctic region.”
On Monday 27th of January, our PhD student Stian Kleiven presented his poster “"The vulnerability of fish transportation from climate change-induced hazards in Arctic Norway, Sweden, and Finland" in the interdisciplinary poster session. More on this in a separate post!
On Tuesday 28th of January, our PhD student Laurien de Korte gave a presentation on “Translating adaptation science: connecting research to reality” at the engaging side event Science on Tap! Here she discussed various science communication strategies we have used in our dissemination and outreach efforts with different stakeholders in our research group. Additionally, she shared insights from her current PhD research, which explores how inter-municipal networks can enhance collaboration in addressing climate change impacts in Norway.
And on Wednesday 29th of January, a total of four members of our research group participated in the interactive workshop “Exploring Policy and Decision Making for Climate Hazards”. This workshop was arranged in collaboration between Arctic Frontiers and the NordForsk-funded Scenario Analyses Regarding Climate-Change Hazards and Critical Infrastructure in the Arctic (CCCI) PhD summer school project, which has been a part of the UiT Climate Change Adaptation research group portfolio. Here, PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers got the opportunity to engage in an interesting discussion with more experienced researchers and experts from the field of climate adaptation and research funding, discussing topics relating to the science-policy nexus. Our research group member Bjarte Rød (post doc) has been involved in arranging the CCCI summer school, while Stian Kleiven (PhD student) participated in the CCCI summer school event in 2024. PhD students Laurien de Korte and Leikny Bakke Lie have been involved in research resulting in policy briefs on climate adaptation and do research within this nexus, and found it to be a very relevant and insightful workshop to partake in. The workshop was followed by an interesting panel discussion “showcasing cross-cutting approaches to dealing with climate hazards more broadly, from an academic, policy and industry angle”.
Published: 30.01.2025
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