Edited volume - Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries
Karin Buhmann (lead) and Mark Stoddart (co-lead), are among the editors of a newly published volume on resource extraction and contested consultation practices. Read more here.
2025 Arctic Academy: The Role of Stakeholders as a Regulatory Force for Sustainable Natural Resource Usage
GALI project - Global Arctic Leadership Initiative: ‘New Pathways for Meaningful Engagement: Lessons from Northern B.C.’
The GALI project, ‘New Pathways for Meaningful Engagement: Lessons from Northern B.C.’, was officially started in October 2024, with two events attended by Dr. Giuseppe Amatulli while visiting the Doig River Reserve from a week (October 28 – November 3, 2024). With the aim of promoting research and disseminate new knowledge, within academia and beyond, on meaningful consultation and engagement around land use and land management, sustainable development and natural resource extraction; the project was planned to kick off on October 1st, 2024, by attending the Doig World café. However, due to some contingencies and considered the fact that two major events were planned to take place at Doig Reserve and in Fort St. John at the end of October 2024, the project started a few weeks later. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in May 2025 by Dr Giuseppe Amatulli and Prof Mark Stoddart, who spent a few weeks working at the Doig Reserve. During this period, they run interviews with staff of the Land department, engaged with members while attending activities on the land and presented their work and preliminary finding at the Doig's Chief and Council. In connection to the fieldowork carried out in May, there was also the attendance of the BC Studies Conference (Vancouver, UBC, 2-4 May), where Dr. Amatulli presented with Shona Nelson (Doig Band Manaher), Sara Rowe (Doig forester) and Allisun Rana (Doig lawyer) on the concept of meaningful engagement in Treaty 8 territories in a post-Yahey context. Moreover, the participation to the conference secured the possibility to publish a Special Issue on meaningful engagement in Treaty 8 territories on one of the quarterly 2026 BC Studies journal.
Arctic Academy for 2024 – Creating Environmentally and Socially Responsible Sustainable Energy and Resource Development in the Arctic
Arctic Academy for Sustainability: Creating Environmentally and Socially Responsible Sustainable Energy and Resource Development in the Arctic.
The Arctic Academy for Sustainability 2023, organised by the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility, is being hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in May 2023. It involves a week long intensive field school with faculty and graduate students from across the Arctic region. The 2023 Academy will focus on Just Energy Transitions, Indigenous Rights and Stakeholder Engagement in the Canadian context. We are honoured to have the participation of a number of Indigenous leaders. The deadline for graduate student applications is January 15, 2023. For more details of the Academy and on how to apply please visit: https://uarcticacademy.wordpress.com.
Thematic Network meeting in the Faroe Islands 20-24 October 2021.
June 2021: ICASS X, Arkhangelsk/hybrid: The TN organised a session on Arctic and sub-Arctic natural resources and responsibilities for sustainable use: learning from the past and present to establish responsible practices for the future.
May 2021: UArctic Congress, Iceland (May 15-18, 2021) The TN hosted a session (exact date to be announced): A just transition for all or just a transition? Defining stakeholders’ rights and responsibilities for Arctic resources required for climate change mitigation.
October 2020: Thematic Network meeting with academic workshop: Presentations and discussions on challenges that the Covid-19 crisis and the climate crisis pose to the Arctic from perspectives related to ourTN.
September 2018: Third TN meeting, hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia.
December 2018: Interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Public participation (PP) in impact assessments (IA) of extractive exploration and exploitation and infrastructure construction projects: comparing Arctic and Global South experiences and identifying synergies for future research’, hosted by Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (co-funded under TN ASRSR)
December 2018: PhD course: ‘Natural resources and human rights: impacts, conflicts, benefits, stakeholders and governance’, held at Copenhagen Business School, CBS.
