Latest workshop to evolve the ArcticHubs research tools šŸ› ļø

Taking advantage of an already strong participation of ArcticHubs researchers at Arctic Frontiers 2024, we doubled up to use the visit to additionally stage an interactive workshop to refine developments around two of our collaborative research tools ā€“ namely QMethod, and Social Licence to Operate (SLO) beyond the mining sector. In addition to Arctic Frontiers, the Norwegian Arctic city of TromsĆø also hosts three of our consortium organisations (NORCE, NOFIMA, …

Call for participation. Your opinion matters!

What do you think about the development of Arcticā€™s economic activities? A Q-study. We would like to invite you to be part of our study to investigate perspectives on the current development of economic activities in the Arctic e.g. fish farming, forestry, mining, tourism, and indigenous peopleā€™s activities such as reindeer herding, fishing and, hunting. This study is part of the Arctichubs projectĀ being implemented in 6 different European Arctic countries …

Participatory research tools: Delphi method to assess desirable futures and identify dissents over Arctic

Different interests, geopolitical plans and socio-economic activities are leading to many challenges in Arctic land use management. There are already guidelines and legal norms for improving participation and decision-making processes on land-use planning for Arctic Countries, such as in Finland. But still the effectiveness of participation vary a lot, and Arctic land use is under great pressure nowadays. As part of the project research, different in-depth analytical research methods are …

Maptionnaire & ArcticHubs: using PPGIS for stakeholder engagement in the Arctic

We recently had our partner Maptionnaire writing about us. As the projectā€™s goal is to find a way of designing solutions together with multiple stakeholders, itā€™s crucial to gather their opinions, as well as understand their practices of using the land, the sea, or other resources. Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform is used as a data collection and conflict negotiation tool by the researchers, as well as a platform for communication …

Participatory research tools: Q-methodology to study perspectives

As used in ArcticHubs, Q-method is being conducted as part of the in-depth analysis of local peopleā€™s perception of the existing and new economic activities in the Arctic. It is being used in particular to assess local stakeholders, policy makers and citizens’ perceptions, in order to identify and cluster like-minded people into so-called opinion types. This makes viewpoints across different parts of the Arctic region and industries comparable. Hereafter a …

WP4 deliverable: testing the Unmanned Forestry Machine for land-use planning of the Arctic

    ArcticHubs researchers are drawing upon a range of innovative tools to find solutions to forest land-use conflict in the Arctic region: the Unmanned Forestry Machine (UFM), developed by some of the ArcticHubs partners, LuleĆ„ University of Technology in collaboration with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, is being tested as one of this in WP4 of the project activities. Why is there a need of the UFM? And what …

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 …