A5008207808- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Climate change and permafrost
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Mining and Resource Management
- Avian ecology and behavior
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2016-2025
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate
2017-2024
Norwegian School of Economics
2023
Akvaplan-niva
2023
The FRAM Centre
2023
Menon Business Economics (Norway)
2023
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
2023
Wisconsin Disability Association
2019
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
2002-2011
The migratory tundra caribou herds in North America follow decadal population cycles, and browsing from abundant could be expected to counteract the current climate-driven expansion of shrubs circumpolar biome. We demonstrate that sea ice cover Arctic Ocean has provided a strong signal for climate-induced changes on adjacent summer ranges, outperforming other climate indices explaining caribou-plant dynamics. found no evidence negative effect abundance vegetation biomass. On contrary, we...
Abstract Recent attention to the role of Indigenous knowledge (IK) in environmental monitoring, research and decision‐making is likely attract new people this field work. Advancing bringing together IK science a way that desirable holders can lead successful inclusive decision‐making. We used Delphi technique with 18 expert participants who were or working closely from across Arctic examine drivers progress limitations use along inform related wildlife, reindeer herding environment. also...
Current research on tourism in the Arctic has focused largely extent, location, and type of activities that occur region. Recently, challenges have been identified industry is likely to face wake global changes, including climate change. Related research, conducted within outside Arctic, suggests rural communities can become economically dependent natural resource extraction (e.g. oil, gas, timber harvesting, mining minerals) non-extractive resources nature-based recreation tourism),...
Nature-based tourism is increasingly encouraged to support local socioeconomic development in and around protected areas, but managing areas for could challenge existing park uses associated with self-organized outdoor recreation resource use. We used a web-based Public Participatory Geographic Information System (PPGIS) identify the most important places values of local, domestic, international visitors Jotunheimen National Park Utladalen Protected Landscape Norway. Scenic were prioritized...
Abstract Crowdsourced data can provide spatially explicit on the contribution of nature to people. Spatial information is essential for effectively managing diverse relationships that people have with nature, but potential and limits using crowdsourcing generate maps conservation purposes need further research. Passive tools include social media platforms where photos user‐generated tags are shared among users, whereas active crowdsourcing, such as public participatory geographic system...
Ocean-based economic development arising from an increasing interest in the ‘blue economy’ is placing ecosystems and small-scale fisheries under pressure. The dominant policy response for dealing with multiple uses allocation of coastal space through zone planning (CZP). Recent studies have shown that rush to develop blue economy regulate activity can result social injustices exclusion less powerful unrecognized groups (e.g., fishers, women, Indigenous peoples youth). To achieve a primary...
Abstract Increased visitation to protected areas could have adverse impacts on the conservation values in areas, and therefore effective visitor monitoring methods are needed meet complex management challenges that arise. Collecting data human is highly time consuming, thus requiring more tools allow for high‐quality long‐term measurements. In this study, we show how unmanned aerial vehicles (i.e. UAV or drones) be used monitor tourism areas. Tourism has boomed national parks Norway recent...
Arctic tourism has rapidly increased in the past two decades. We used social media data to examine localized booms and quantify spatial expansion of footprint. extracted geotagged locations from over 800,000 photos on Flickr mapped these across space time. critically use as a source data-poor regions, find that while is not suitable an early warning system growth less visited parts world, it can be map changes at large scales. Our results show footprint summer quadrupled winter by 600%...
Abstract As global warming makes the Arctic Ocean more accessible, concerns have been raised about environmental consequences of a possible expansion commercial fisheries into pristine marine ecosystems. Using recently released dataset, we quantify for first time how fishing activities are responding to diminishing sea ice and warmer Ocean. We show that trawling dominates this activity penetrates rapidly shelf areas previously protected by extensive ice-cover as response interannual loss....
As Northern Norway navigates the interdependencies between sustainable food production and environmental stewardship, including protecting biodiversity, future trajectories for its blue systems offer critical insights into addressing security challenges. This study explores four distinct scenarios North region's by 2040, highlighting how governance, technology, community-driven initiatives can shape pathways under influence of EU Taxonomy.  The include: (1) Regenerative, Locally...
To successfully fulfill the European Commission Mission on “restore our ocean and waters by 2030” (Mission Starfish 2030), innovative solutions are requested. A key objective is to foster participatory governance actively engaging mobilizing public. This approach empowers citizens take initiative lead transitions through deliberative democracy, social innovation, citizen science, targeted awareness campaigns." The EU-project A-AAGORA* pushes for these objectives forward, focusing three...
Stemming and reversing the (marine) biodiversity loss is one of main global ambitions for current decade up to 2050. The European Union (EU) policy framework has responded with Green Deal, Biodiversity Strategy 2030, more recently Nature Restoration Regulation. These policies mirror and, sometimes, extend them even further. However, question how can these ambitious goals be achieved, particularly within marine realm?The EU tends emphasise importance innovation, both achieve environmental...
Coastal birch forests in northern Norway are currently being converted to nonnative spruce plantations. Since such land use changes may cause large alterations the forest ecosystems, indicators suitable for detecting and monitoring impacts need be pursued. In this study, we used a three-table ordination method (RLQ analysis) identify species traits bird assemblages indicating environmental attributes at stand landscape level. RLQ analysis has advantage of linking directly attributes, hence...