EA8.4-5 Polar lessons: Arctic and Antarctic governance and economics - Det Internasjonale Polaråret 2007-2008

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EA8.4-5 Polar lessons: Arctic and Antarctic governance and economics

Time: Tuesday 8 June 14:00 - 16:00
Location : Room E4

Theme 4. Human dimensions of change: Health, society and resources

Session 4-5. Polar lessons: Arctic and Antarctic governance and economics

Subsession - ASI (IPY 462 Cluster)

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Subsession - POENOR (IPY226 Cluster)

14:00 Issues and Challenges in the Construction and Measurement of Arctic Social Indicators for the Arctic Economy: Material Well-Being in the Arctic
Presenter: J.N. Larsen
14:15 Arctic Social Indicators: Contact with Nature
Presenter: L.A. King
14:30 Agents of change: Creative class, fate control, and economic reinvention of the Canadian Arctic
Presenter: Andrey Petrov
14:45 Comparative Systems Analysis in the Context of Northern Regional Economies
Presenter: Gorm Winther
15:00 Agricultural Intensification, Diversification and Conservation in View of Climate Change: the Case of Iceland and Prospects for the Circum-Arctic Region
Presenter: J.H. Ingimundarson
15:15 Greenland's Balance of Payments and Self-Governance
Presenter: H. Aage
15:30 Resilience and social costs: centralised towns vs. distributed settlements?
Presenter: K. Hendriksen
15:45 China's Polar Interests
Presenter: A. S. Brady