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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory

This award-winning collection examines historical and contemporary impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Keeling, Arn and Sandlos, John (eds) (2015). Mining and…

Book award “Best Edited Collection” to REXSAC researchers

REXSAC researchers Arn Keeling and John Sandlos, both of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, were recently awarded the Canadian Studies Network Prize for Best Edited…

Call for abstracts: Extractive Industries and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Arctic

Arctic Change 2017: Call for abstracts Abstract submissions are presently being accepted for the 2017 Arctic Change Conference, to be held in Quebec City, Canada, between 11-15 December,…

Call for input to literature review of past mining transitions

Stockholm Environment Institute is undertaking a review of the literature on past natural resource transitions, with attention to energy resources but also natural resources more…

How stressed are reindeer?

REXSAC research on how climate change and exploitation of resources affect stress levels in reindeer have featured in Swedish media. The work is led by…

Abandoned infrastructures from Arctic science as cultural heritage – the Sorgfjorden project

Field work,Svalbard

In July 2017, researchers from REXSAC together with collaborators from other research environments at KTH, NTNU & UNIS, conducted historical-archaeological field work at Svalbard, funded…