16 August 2024
Infrastructure and sustainability discussed in Bodø
Thursday afternoon 30 May three researchers from The Arctic Five universities took part in a session about infrastructure and sustainability at Arctic Congress Bodø 2024.
Roine Viklund from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, talked about abandoned mines as a cultural heritage. By archival research, oral history and archeological field work, he has discovered more than 100 individual abandoned mines in the Norrbotten province in Sweden. According to Roine Viklund, heritagisation of old mines could contribute to local awareness and tourism. However, it is vital to collaborate with local actors in the process.
Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo from the University of Lapland, Finland, talked about water management among homeowners in Finland. There is a tendency in privately owned architecture to expand building area and asphalt at the expense of green area other than monoculture lawn. Another tendency is to channel away the water from the plot into a drainage network. As a result, the capacity to absorb water is reduced at the same time as precipitation increases due to climate changes causing flooding of the drainage system. Therefore, Finnish policy makers have started to intervene in order to reduce the negative effects of individual choices at the aggregate level.
Polina Smirnova from UiT The Arctic University of Norway talked about the interconnection between security and energy with the Hammerfest liquified gas offshore plant as a case example. Polina Smirnova highlighted that energy is mobile and that its mobility is an important dimension to consider when discussing energy and security. It may help identify various actors and processes involved to help improve the security of critical infrastructure.
Luleå University of Technology, University of Lapland, UiT The Arctic University of Norway together with University of Oulu and Umeå University comprise The Arctic Five – an alliance aiming to advance and shape knowledge, education and innovations for the development of a sustainable Arctic region.
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