Arctic Sustainability Research (PDF)

Gail Fondahl is a Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her PhD is from the University of California-Berkeley. Professor Fondahl's research focuses on the legal geographies of indigenous territorial rights in the Russian North and the cultural and governance dimensions of Arctic sustainability. She serves as Canada's representative to, and Chair of, the International Arctic Science Committee's Social & Human Sciences Working Group. Dr Fondahl was president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (2011-2014) and remains on IASSA's governing council. She co-edited the second Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR-II).

Jessica K. Graybill is a Human Ecologist and Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Russian & Eurasian Studies Program at Colgate University. Her focus in Eurasia is on the Far East and North where she conducts research related to resource use, extraction, and climate change in the Russian Far East and North. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator on two National Science Foundation grants in Arctic resilience and sustainability. She is also an interdisciplinary research methodologist. Recent publications include Urban Climate Vulnerability and Governance in the Russian North (2015) and Cities of the World, Sixth Edition (2016).

Kathrin Keil is a Scientific Project Leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany, where she leads the Arctic research project GloCAST (Global Change and Arctic Sustainable Transformations). GloCAST uses the Arctic as a prominent case to illustrate interrelations between global and regional change processes and between stakeholders from within and outside the Arctic. Kathrin received her PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is Senior Fellow of The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar Security Studies and part of the German delegation to the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council.

Annika E. Nilsson is Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute and Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Politics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on the politics of Arctic change, with research on environmental governance, communication at the science-policy interface, and the relationship between resource extraction and sustainable Arctic communities. She has participated in several scientific assessments under the auspices of the Arctic Council. Nilsson received her PhD in environmental science in 2007 following on a 20-year career as a science journalist.

Rudolf Riedlsperger is a PhD candidate (Geography) at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John's, Canada. His research interests revolve around sustainable community development. A particular focus is on sustainable public housing in Arctic and Subarctic regions, viewed both from a physical and sociocultural perspective.

Peter Schweitzer is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His theoretical interests range from kinship and identity politics to human-environmental interactions, including the community effects of global climate change, and his regional focus areas include the circumpolar North and the former Soviet Union. Schweitzer is past President of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, past Chair of the Social and Human Sciences Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee, and currently the Director of the Austrian Polar Research Institute.