Latest Blog
New Blog for World Policy Institute: Why should we care about the Arctic?
REXSAC researcher, Annika E. Nilsson, kicks off new bi-monthly series about the Arctic as guest blogger with two other colleagues on the World Policy website. Answering…
Poison and profit: mining on traditional lands
In the underground depths of northern Canada lies a monster. That’s how Mary Rose Sundberg of the Goyatiko Language Society describes the 237,000 tons of…
Amidst social and environmental dynamic in Ilulissat
We have seen the images of calving icebergs calling our attention to the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. The ground zero for such…
Latest Publications
New report: Mining companies’ performance on Sami lands
This paper (Larsen, R. K., Österlin, C. (REXSAC researchers) and Guia, L.) considers whether these voluntary actions actually improve companies’ CEA performance and so provide…
Research initiative intensifying at final conference on Swedish mountain environment
There are about 40 researchers from seven Swedish universities who carried out twelve different research projects in the years 2013-2017 in connection with the Swedish…
Artikel in Samefolket magazine about indigenous rights in Sweden
Sweden, according to a new study, is the worst of all comparable countries in allowing indigenous peoples to assert their rights in environmental assessments of, for…