SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH - From Tana, Norway to Oktemtsy, Yakutia, Russia

Authors

  • Tor Gjertsen UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • Greg Halseth University of Northern British Columbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3250

Abstract

 

The Gargia Conferences for Local and Regional Development (2004-14)

Tor Gjertsen and Greg Halseth (eds.)

 UArctic Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development

UiT/The Arctic University of Norway, University of Northern British Columbia

2015

 

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Author Biographies

Tor Gjertsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Tor Gjertsen is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Tourism and Northern Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The last 25 years he has been involved in different projects and programs for business and community development in northern Norway, Russia, and Canada. Between 2006 and 2013, he was the leader of an international Thematic Network on Local and Regional Development on behalf of the University of the Arctic and Finnmark University College, his former employer. Through the Thematic Network and the Gargia conferences for regional development, the main meeting place and forum for discussion of the Network, he has initiated and coordinated several joint international education, research, and development projects and programs between Network members and partners in the Circumpolar North.

Greg Halseth, University of Northern British Columbia

Greg Halseth is a Professor in the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies and Co-Director of UNBC’s Community Development Institute. His research examines rural and small town community development, and local and regional strategies for coping with social and economic change.

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Published

2014-12-11

How to Cite

Gjertsen, T., & Halseth, G. (2014). SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH - From Tana, Norway to Oktemtsy, Yakutia, Russia. Septentrio Conference Series, (1). https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3250

Issue

No. 1 (2015): Sustainable development in the circumpolar North. From Tana, Norway to Oktemtsy, Yakutia, Russia

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