Call for Papers
Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) Sponsored Session
6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
9-13 October 2005
Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 10 March 2005
For further information on the HARC session, please contact:
Maribeth Murray
E-mail: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu
The Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) initiative, a component
of the NSF Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS), is soliciting papers
for a sponsored session at the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions
of Global Environmental Change, 9-13 October 2005, Bonn Germany.
The theme of the session is "Arctic Environmental Change: A Bellwether
of Global Changes."
Climate change is usually described as a driver of impacts in relation
to human activities. Human activity combines with climate change and
other drivers such as economics and technology to amplify or attenuate
impacts in the Arctic as human dimensions feed back and interact with
the climate system. Research and analyses show that human activities are
having larger influences, these influences are likely to increase over
time, and the potential impact on human security (economic, political,
food, and other), will be substantial.
Environmental changes in the Arctic are ongoing and are impacting
northern people now, with implications for future global impacts. The
Arctic is a bellwether for change as impacts and feedbacks there are
more immediate and perhaps more dramatic than they are in other places.
Cumulative impact studies as well as projections for future development
suggest that preventing or managing such change will require global
action. Paying particular attention to human dimensions, the papers in
this session will draw on examples from the Arctic and from elsewhere to
explore the links among Arctic system change and global system change,
and in particular the ways in which the changes now observed in the
Arctic foreshadow a world in transition.
This session is sponsored by HARC, the Human Dimensions component of the
U.S. National Science Foundation's Arctic System Science Program
(ARCSS). HARC works within an interdisciplinary context to synthesize
Arctic Human Dimensions scientific knowledge and to integrate this
knowledge into larger ARCSS syntheses efforts to understand climate and
other kinds of regional and global change.
Session Organizers:
Maribeth S. Murray, HARC Core Office, Center for Global Change
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Bruce Forbes, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Rovaniemi, Finland
For further information on International Human Dimensions Programme on
Global Environmental Change (IHDP) and to submit an abstract to the HARC
session (Session 5) at the Open Meeting, please go to:
http://openmeeting.homelinux.org/
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 10 March 2005
For further information on the HARC, please contact:
Maribeth Murray
E-mail: ffmsm [at] uaf.edu