May 24, 2023: Article by Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer in “Ambio”

The Paper “Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya)” written by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer was published by Ambio, a journal of environment and society issued by the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences.

The paper is discussing the impact of climate change on the local community of fishers in the settlement of Bykovskiy in on the Norther Coast of Sakha (Yakutia) autonomous republic in Russia. The paper is specifically addressing the notion of “ignorance” as a coping strategy in the context of colonial power structures and their legacy.

The article is available online here https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9 or as a PDF here https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9.pdf.

InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels.

Mar 10, 2026: Presentation by Timothy Heleniak at the European Committee of the Regions

On March 10, 2026, InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the concluding conference of the Horizon Europe-funded project PREMIUM_EU. The event was organized by Nordregio and hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and live-streamed online. In this talk, Heleniak presented […]

Cover of the Polar Geography journal.

Feb 2026: Article by Susan Vanek in Polar Geography Special Issue

The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “2200 meters: infrastructure, the future, and the politics of belonging in Greenland and the Arctic” by InfraNorth associate researcher Susan Vanek. The article examines Greenland’s airport expansion project, following its approval in 2015 by Naalakkersuisut (the Government of Greenland) as the largest investment in transportation […]