Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard (SVALUR)
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
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- URL
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- Start date
- 1/1/2020
- End date
- 12/31/2023
- Budget
- 123,000 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLARPROG - Polar Research Programme | Grant | - | - | 123,000 EUR |
Abstract
SVALUR aims to build resilience and capacity to adapt to the rapid environmental changes taking place on Svalbard. There are many programs that focus on environmental monitoring on Svalbard, but each of these has relatively specific mandates and limited time frames. In the past year, SVLAUR has had great success and synergies. The Maptionaire/PPGIS/web-based platform resulted in 652 registrations. The Maptionaire was in several languages, in order to reach more people. Workshops and focus groups resulted in 112 registrations and narratives. This data was also entered into a Cognitive Map which showed that people who live and move around Svalbard have an incredible understanding of the environmental system. This data has now also been taken up and integrated by other projects and research measures such as: From Catchment to Coast (Fram Center), Arctic Passion (EU: Arctic PASSION Pan-Arctic Observing System of Systems) and SIOS (Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System), in their emphasis on establishing observationsystems that is more relevant for people and local communities. Storymap has been completed and now links observations with locations, images and stories. Based on this, we are also working on 4 publications which we expect to publish in 2023. Instagram was also widely used, both as a means of communication but also so that people could share their observations through this medium. Instagram will continue in conjunction with Catchment 2 Coast.