• Ilulissat. Photo: Dag Avango.

    Ilulissat. Photo: Dag Avango.

  • Kiruna, Sweden

    Kiruna, Sweden. Getty/mikeuk.

  • Abandoned coal cable cars and tramway, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

    Abandoned coal cable cars, Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Getty/m_g_h_hoffmann.

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Meet REXSAC PhD students: Patrik Andersson

Discover the sixth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Patrik Andersson, industrial PhD student at the Department of Politics and…
Camilla Winqvist, PhD student at KTH

Meet REXSAC PhD students: Camilla Winqvist

Discover the fifth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Camilla Winqvist, PhD student at KTH. Her research is…
Photo: Alix Varnajot

Meet REXSAC PhD students: Alix Varnajot

Discover the fourth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Alix Varnajot, PhD student at the University of Oulu.…

News & Events

January 30th, 2020

REXSAC at Arctic Frontiers 2020 – The Power of Knowledge

REXSAC Researcher Annika E. Nilsson has given a “Brief outlook” on day one of the 14th edition of the Arctic Frontiers Conference: The Power of…

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January 18th, 2020

Mining the Connections 2020 International Multi-Network Conference on Mining

Postponed to spring 2021 Check conference website for updates   REXSAC, together with MinErAL and Amedee Network, is hosting  Mining the Connections, an international and multidisciplinary conference.…

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Latest Publications

Australia June 2020

Strategic Ignorance: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of Sacred Juukan Caves

How can we excuse mining giant Rio Tinto’s unconscionable destruction of a 46,000 year old Pilbara Aboriginal Heritage site on the grounds of “not knowing” when…
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LOVISA Workshop Report: Local Knowledge in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

  The report is based on a workshop that was held in December 2019 in Nuuk (Greenland) to facilitate an exchange between Indigenous and local…
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Ny bok – Arktiska spår: Natur och kultur i rörelse

  Originaltext: Nordiska Museet (pressmeddelande)   Ingenstans på jorden ökar den globala uppvärmningen lika snabbt som i Arktis. Vad som sker där angår en hel värld. I…