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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2009 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 22-27, 2009

Title:

The Changing Geographies of the Arctic and Northern Regions: II

Description:

The Arctic and Northern regions are currently undergoing rapid economic, political, environmental, and climatic change. Thereis a growing interest in the Arctic among both geographers andthe general public. This session invites papers examining any aspect of changes in the human, physical, cultural, or environmental geography of the Arctic or northern regions. The2009 AAG comes near the end of the International Polar Year and provides an opportunity to present results from fieldwork undertaken during that time.

Anticipated Attendance:

40

Organizers:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak

Andrey N Petrov

Chairs:

Andrey N Petrov

Participants:

Presenter:

Erin Freeland Ballantyne, Climate Change, Health and Petro-Capitalism in the Arctic

Presenter:

Brendan Griebel, The Cartographies of History: Place, Multivocality and the Archaeological Mapping of Northern Indigenous Heritage

Presenter:

Jussi S. Jauhiainen, Governance of Technology Development Networks in Periphery. The Case of Multipolis in Northern Finland.

Presenter:

Katri Suorsa, Innovation systems and policies in less-favoured regions: the case of Northern Finland

Presenter:

Markku J. Tykkylainen, Impacts of Russian Roundwood Export Tariffs: How Can a Finnish Border Economy React?

 

Sponsorships:

Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group, Canadian Studies Specialty Group, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

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