This field of interest encompasses research about various regimes of natural resource management: traditional, colonial, post-colonial and sustainable management based on scientific advice. The programme also includes studies on the social and historical construction of knowledge on the northern natural and cultural environment.
This theme is addressed in the following research programmes at the Barents Institute:
It has been discussed by BAI researchers in these newspaper articles:
- Urban Wråkberg & Robert Hermansen, “Hva skjer i Nordområdene?” Dagens Næringsliv 3rd January (2008), p. 3
- Margrethe Aanesen & Urban Wråkberg, “Fra rensing till forskning,” Nordlys 25th June 2007, p. 3
- Margrethe Aanesen & Urban Wråkberg, “The Norwegian Environmental Endowment for Nikel – From Cleaning to Research?," Barents Institute Reprint (2008) no. 1 (English edition of the article above)
It is to be addressed in the joint BAI and Tromsø University PhD candidate programme now under elaboration "Mining, Society and Development in the Barents Region." BAI scholars are developing proposals for a research programme squarely addressing issues of natural resource utilisation in the Barents Region:
- "Research Consensus as a Foundation for Industrial Development in the North," together with the Kola Science Centre in Apatity, Russia and Norrut Samfunn in Tromsø.
Metallurgical plants and badlands at Monchegorsk. Photo: Urban Wråkberg
