REXSAC – Resource extraction and sustainable Arctic communities
REXSAC – Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities
REXSAC is an interdisciplinary Center of Excellence, with partners in all Nordic countries, including Greenland and with partners Canada and Russia. The aim of REXSAC is to contribute to practices and processes that ensure the sustainability of Arctic communities in a rapidly changing social, political, cultural, and ecological environment.
REXSAC focuses on extractive industries in the Arctic, seeking to explain what consequences they have for environments and communities in the Arctic, what opportunities exist for extraction based communities to diversify and transition, and how assessments and planning for extractive industries can be improved. REXSAC uses a number of case studies in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greenland and Svalbard, to understand how lessons from the past can inform decision-making today as well as to compare Arctic experiences with other parts of the world.
In REXSAC, History at Luleå university of Technology collaborates with KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, which is leading REXSAC together with Stockholm University, and 12 other partner institutions in the Nordic countries. The researchers involved work across the humanities, the natural and social sciences. Several communities in the Arctic are involved. REXSAC funds 12 senior researchers, 6 PhD students and a PhD school involving 6 additional PhD students funded from other sources. In addition, over 40 researchers are affiliated with the centre.
At history at LTU, Dag Avango and Annika Nilsson are working in REXSAC. Avango and Nilsson are part of the executive committee leading the center. They are also leading two of the all in all 8 research tasks of the center. Avango leads a research task aiming to explore the role of mining legacies in Arctic communities where mining operations have closed down and under what circumstances such legacies can contribute to sustainability. Nilsson leads a research task aiming to develop existing sustainability indicators for Arctic communities and in the process develop scenario methodology for such research.
Funding agency: NordForsk
Funding: 28 MSEK
Duration: 2016-2021
PI’s: Professor Dag Avango and Professor Ninis Rosqvist, Stockholm University
Project participants at LTU: Dr. Annika Nilsson, Unit of history
Project participants at other universities: 10 senior researchers, 12 PhD students and about 40 senior researchers at 15 universities and research institutes in the Nordic countries.
Contact
Dag Avango
- Professor and Head of Subject
- 0920-491573
- dag.avango@ltu.se
- Dag Avango
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