November newsletter: ArcticHubsā€™ serious game takes a step forward in Iceland

šŸ“Œ Our November 2024 newsletter is now live, packed with exciting updates and achievements. šŸ” What’s Inside? Serious game expansion in Iceland Dive into how ArcticHubsā€™ digital ā€˜serious gameā€™ is breaking new ground, fostering innovative collaboration in Iceland’s Westfjords. This interactive tool showcases the potential of participatory solutions in remote areas. Arctic Circle Assembly highlights Explore ArcticHubsā€™ contributions to the 2024 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, where the project shared …

Using a public participatory GIS tool to co-design solutions in the ArcticHubs

At the heart of the ArcticHubs project are a number of tools that are seeking to access a broad range of views and voices, through which to shape solutions when addressing the urgent challenges around land-use conflict in the Arctic. To avoid an overload of one-way quizzing from researchers – probing for an understanding through which to frame recommendations – ArcticHubs has instead moved towards a co-design approach. Placing an …

Fish farming hubs

Aquaculture is an economic sector that has developed over the past couple of decades on an industrial scale across numerous Arctic waters. In no small part, recent rapid growth has occurred due to the increase in global demand in particular for Atlantic Salmon (salmo salar) which dominates aquaculture production in the region. Mirroring the domination in production of a single species, the business of fish farming which initially spawned a …

Tourism hubs

Tourism has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the Arctic region and one towards which many hubs are turning. For a great number of tourists and global tourism companies alike, the Arctic has evoked images of unspoilt wild landscapes, extreme climate and an ideal place to escape the pressures of everyday life! Often stimulated by news of retreating ice caps and diminishing populations of polar bear, …