Participants and their expertise

Karin Buhmann

Research interests:

  • Fair climate change transitions/just transitions
  • Business & Human Rights (BHR)
  • Governing climate change mitigation
  • Responsible business conduct (RBC)
  • Human rights due diligence and other forms of risk-based due diligence and their sub-elements, such as assessing impacts, meaningful stakeholder engagement especially with’affected stakeholders’/rights-holders, and the exercise of leverage
  • Sustainable resource governance
  • ESG investing and the role and impacts of institutional investors through complex investment chains
  • Procedural and substantive aspects of access to remedy for victims of transnational business-related impacts
  • The nexus between environmental/climate change/human rights impacts and wider societal impacts resulting from the activities of public and private organisations
  • The influence of public international, transnational and national law and law-based norms on private sustainability governance
  • Comparative Arctic and Global South perspectives on RBC and BHR
  • Public, hybrid, private and ‘smart’ sustainability regulation, especially in regard to business conduct
  • Sustainable development and regulatory governance
  • Transnationalisation of law and international human rights law

Selected publications:

Buhmann, K (2021). Institutional investors and climate justice: The role of investors in advancing prevention of human rights abuse in investment chains for fossil-free energy. In Volker Mauerhofer (ed) Governance, Law and Sustainability (Routledge): 222- 236

Buhmann, K. (2020). Meaningful stakeholder engagement as an aspect of risk-based due diligence between the economy, politics and law: the constitutive role of the Business & Human Rights regime. In Rachael L. Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (eds) Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge): 78-98

Buhmann, K. (2020). Is mandatory non-financial reporting an effective regulatory strategy for advancing responsible business conduct? Observations on human and labour rights reporting in Denmark 2008-2018. International and Comparative.

Selected research projects:

  • 2021-2022 (with extension through 2024 likely) Grant holder and project leader (PI), project ‘Towards a socially just transition in the Arctic: Exploring, theorizing and disseminating best practice in meaningful stakeholder engagement for communities’ funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers/Nordregio Arctic Cooperation Programme, 400,000 DKK in year one (extension with 500,000 DKK in year 2 and 500,000 DKK in year 3 expected)
  • 2021-2026: Member of research team for project under Canadian SSHRC Insight Grant, project ‘Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Resource-Rich Economies’, grant holder/PI Dr Nathan Andrews, University of Northern British Columbia
  • 2018-2022: Grant holder and project leader (PI) for international network project “Natural resources, risk-based due diligence, stakeholder engagement and public participation in decision-making: building comparative Arctic-Global South sustainability research” grant DKK 283.477 funded by the Danish Ministry for Science and Education

Pamela Lesser

Research interests:

  • Social Licence to Operate
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Sustainability in the Extractives Industry
  • Arctic environmental and social impact analysis
  • Land use planning
  • Serious games

Selected publications:

Koivurova, T., Buanes, Arild., Riabova, Larissa., Didyk, V., Ejdemo, T., Poelzer, G., Taavo, Päivi and Lesser, P. (2015) ‘Social license to operate’: a relevant term in Northern European mining? Polar Geography, Vol 38, no 3 p. 194-227. DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2015.1056859

Koivurova, T., Lesser, P., Bickford, S., Kankaanpää, P. and Nenasheva, M. (2016) Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic: A Guide to Best Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Lesser, P., Gugerell, K., Poelzer, G., Hitch, M., and Tost, M. (2021) European Mining and the Social Licence to Operate, The Extractives Industry and Society, Vol 8 Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.07.021

Links:

University of Lapland: https://www.ulapland.fi/FI

Paul Bowles

Professor of Global Studies and Economics, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Research interests:

  • Globalization
  • Alternative forms of development
  • Extractivism and its Discontents
  • Social Licence
  • China’s political economy

Selected publications:

Paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail, “Social Licence Comes to Greenland’s Mining Sector: Will Communities be Empowered?”, Arctic, 2021 (in press).

Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles, “Fractured Alliance: State-Corporate Actions and Resistance to Fossil Fuel Development in Northwest British Columbia”, Journal of Political Ecology, 28, 1, 2021 (in press).

Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles, “Fossil Fuel Flashpoints: Towards a Typology with Illustrations from Northern British Columbia” in W. Carroll, (ed.), Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy, University of Lethbridge Press, 2021, pp. 429-52.

Links:

http://blogs.unbc.ca/paulbowles/

Jacob Taarup-Esbensen

Associate Professor, PhD, University College Copenhagen Department of Risk and Emergency management

Research interests:

  • Organisational risk and safety management
  • Arctic mining and extractives industry
  • Community resilience

Selected publications:

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2021) “Business continuity management in Greenland – Arcticmining preparedness for business continuity events”, Safety Science, 137(May) DOI:10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105188

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2020) “A resilience-based approach to risk assessments – Building resilient organisations under arctic conditions”, Risk Analysis – An international journal, 40(11) DOI: 10.1111/risa.13535

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2019) “Political Risk as the Management of Legitimacy – Mining MNEs Navigating the Greenlandic Political Landscape”, The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(4) DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.10.015

Links:

jata@kp.dk

https://www.ucviden.dk/da/persons/jacob-taarup-esbensen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-taarup-esbensen-phd-1035357/

Sanne Vammen Larsen

Research interests:

  • My research lies within a general framework of working for a sustainable development through environmental management and planning. I specialise in environmental assessment and its link to planning and decision-making as as tool to further a sustainable development. I have worked in the Arctic for a number of years, and have worked specifically with integration of climate change in environmental assessment as well as social issues and public participation

Selected publications:

– Larsen SV (In press 2021), Inclusion of Uncertainty in Environmental Impact Assessment in Greenland, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106583

Larsen SV, Hansen AM, Dahl PPE and Morales AH (2019) Guidance Note on Indigenous and Local Community: Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment in the European Arctic, Luxembourg: European Investment Bank, https://www.eib.org/attachments/guidance_note_on_indegenous_and_local_community_en.pdf

Links:

https://vbn.aau.dk/da/persons/104245

Emma Wilson

Research interests:

  • Government and corporate responsibility for the low-carbon transition
  • Minerals extraction and low-carbon futures
  • Role of the oil and gas industry in low-carbon transitions
  • Community engagement and participation in the green recovery and low-carbon transitions
  • Indigenous and human rights in the context of low-carbon transitions

Selected publications:

Wilson, E. (2020) Voluntary standards and free, prior and informed consent: Insights for improving implementation, London: ISEAL. https://www.isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2020-11/Voluntary-standards-and-FPIC_ISEAL_11-2020.pdf

Wilson, E., Norton, P., Ahmed, S., Jones, D. and A. Mills (2020) Public Engagement and the Green Recovery: a Guidance Note for Local Authorities, UK: the Consultation Institute. https://www.consultationinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Green-Recovery-Guidance-Note-July-15.pdf

Wilson, E. (2020) ‘Indigenous rights and resource development in the Arctic: an overview of international standards and principles for consultation, participation and consent,’ in Johnstone, R.L. and Hansen, A.M. (eds.) Regulation of Extractive Industries: community engagement in the Arctic. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 11-46. https://www.routledge.com/Regulation-of-Extractive-Industries-Community-Engagement-in-the-Arctic/Johnstone-Hansen/p/book/9780367181796

Links:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/emmacwilson

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-flowers-emma-wilson/

Rachael Lorna Johnstone

Selected publications:

Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen, eds., Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge, 2020).

Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Scott Joblin, “Non-living Resources and the Poles” in Research Handbook on Polar Law, Karen Scott and David VanderZwaag, eds., (Edward Elgar, 2020), 249-270.

Rachael Lorna Johnstone, “What is required for Free, Prior and Informed Consent and where does it apply?” in Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic, eds. Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (Routledge, 2020).

Selected research projects:

  • Perspectives on colonialism in Greenland Project Manager: Rachael Lorna Johnstone Funding Agency: Research Fund of the University of Akureyri Duration: 2021-22

Links:

https://www.unak.is/english/moya/ugla/staff/rachael-lorna-johnstone (University of Akureyri)

https://uk.uni.gl/find-employee/department-of-law/rachael-lorna-johnstone.aspx (University of Greenland)

Cristián Flores

Research interests:

  • Lithium mining 
  • Salt flats
  • Lithium-ion battery and electromobility supply chains
  • Environmental and Human Rights Law
  • Knowledge production and uncertainty management 

Cristián Flores Fernández is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography and IRI THESys of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is a lawyer and holds a diploma in Social and Legal Sciences from the University of Chile and a Master of Science in Governance of Risk and Resources from the University of Heidelberg. For more than fourteen years he has worked on human rights and environmental issues in the public and private sectors as well as in academia and civil society organizations in Chile and Germany.

His current research investigates the conflicts and socio-environmental impacts linked to the extraction of brine for lithium production in the salt flats of northern Chile and the sustainability of the supply chains of lithium-ion batteries and electromobility. This research is carried out within the interdisciplinary research team on hydrology and society led by Prof. Dr. Tobias Krüger.

Links:

https://www.iri-thesys.org/people/Cristian%20Flores%20Fernandez
https://www.iri-thesys.org/institute
florescr@hu-berlin.de

Prof. Mark CJ Stoddart (he/him)

Associate Editor, Environmental Sociology
Board Member, International Sociological Association RC24: Environment & Society

Research interests:

  • Environmental sociology;
  • Political sociology & social movements;
  • Oil and energy;
  • Tourism and recreation;
  • Climate change

Selected publications:

Stoddart, Mark C.J., Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey (2020). Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist? Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1

Kukkonen, Anna, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila (2021). “Actors and Justifications in Media Debates on Arctic Climate Change in Finland and Canada: A network approach.” Acta Sociologica 64(1): 103-117. doi:10.1177/0001699319890902

Stoddart, Mark C.J., and B. Quinn Burt (2020). “Energy Justice and Offshore Oil: Weighing Environmental Risk and Privilege in the North Atlantic.” Environmental Sociology 6(4): 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2020.1782026

Selected research projects:

  • The Oil-Tourism Interface and Social-Ecological Change in the North Atlantic. Mark C.J. Stoddart, Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2015-2022.

Title: Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Resource-Rich Communities: Comparative Cases from the Global South and High North. Duration: 2021-2026. Amount: CAD $291,579- Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Research Team: Nathan Andrews (PI), Mark Stoddart (Co-I), Paul Haslam (Co-I), Karin Buhmann (Collab), Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu (Collab), Rajiv Maher (Collab), Anna-Sofie Skjervedal (Collab), Anne Johnson (Collab), Penelope Simons (Collab), Nancy Yáñez (Collab). 

Links:

https://www.mun.ca/soc/people/faculty-profiles/mark-c-j-stoddart.php

Alberto Fonseca

Research interests:

  • Impact Assessment; environmental decision-making;
  • Environmental policy evaluation;
  • Human-environment interactions;
  • Mixed methods;
  • Key research area 1 – Territorial effects of environmental policies: from anecdotes to evidence.
  • Key research area 2 – Effectiveness of impact assessment legislation: comparative practices.

Selected publications:

Fonseca, A., & Gibson, R. B. (2021). Why are projects rarely rejected in environmental impact assessments? Narratives of justifiability in Brazilian and Canadian review reports. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-23. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1852073

Pimenta, M. A., & Fonseca, A. (2021). To what extent are threatened plant species considered in impact assessment decision-making? Insights from southeastern Brazil. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 86, 106516. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106516

Fonseca, A., de Brito, L. L. A., & Gibson, R. B. (2020). Methodological pluralism in environmental impact prediction and significance evaluation: A case for standardization? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 80, 106320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106320

Links:

https://liga.ufop.br/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYk2eflw1slEnWKuA9kW3be1dwGRxc6v

Dorothée Cambou

Research interests:

  • Human rights
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Sustainability law
  • Environmental and Energy Justice

Selected publications:

Cambou, D. (2020). Uncovering injustices in the green transition: Sámi rights in the development of wind energy in Sweden. Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 11, 310-333. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v11.2293

Cambou, D., & Poelzer, G. (Forthcoming 2021). Enhancing Energy justice in the Arctic: An appraisal of the participation of Arctic indigenous peoples in the transition to renewable energy. In D. Natcher, & T. Koivurova (Eds.), Renewable Economies in the Arctic: A State of Knowledge Sustainable Development Working Group: Arctic Council

Buhmann, K., Bowles, P., Cambou, D., Hurup Skjervedal, A-S., & Stoddart, M. (Forthcoming 2021). Towards socially sustainable renewable energy projects through involvement of local communities:Normative aspects and practices on the ground. In D. Natcher, & T. Koivurova (Eds.), Renewable Economies in the Arctic: A State of Knowledge Sustainable Development Working Group: Arctic Council.

Selected research projects:

  • Transitioning towards a sustainable Nordic Society: Assessing and monitoring the implementation of the rights of the Indigenous Sámi people as a means to achieve inclusive and sustainable development. Cambou, D., Ravna, Ø., Heinämäki, L. & Brännström, M. NOS-HS: Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for Humanities and Social Sciences 01/01/2019 → 01/06/2022. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/norsil-network/
  • CASES: Community Appropriate Sustainable Energy Security (CASES) Partnership Poelzer, G. & Cambou (as partner), D. 01/09/2019 → … https://renewableenergy.usask.ca/Projects/CASES.php
  • Strategic litigation based on indigenous peoples’ rights: a viable option to force States to act against climate change? Smis, S., Cambou, D. & Renglet, C. 01/01/2020 → 31/12/2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Funding from Research Foundation Flanders

Links:

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/dorothee-cambou

Nathan Andrews, PhD

Research interests:

  • Business ethics and corporate social responsibility
  • Global governance and regimes (transparency, security, business & human rights)
  • International political economy of natural resource extraction (with emphasis on Africa)
  • Sustainable development and mining

Selected publications:

Andrews, Nathan, Nathan Bennett, Philippe Le Billon, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Sandra Amongin, Stephanie Green, Noella Gray and Rashid Sumaila. (2021). “Oil, Fisheries and Coastal Communities: A Review of Impacts on the Environment, Livelihoods, Spaces and Governance,” Energy Research and Social Science (accepted & forthcoming).

Andrews, Nathan. (2021). “Corporate Social Responsibility as Sensemaking and Sensegiving in a Hydrocarbon Industry.” Business & Society Review (accepted & forthcoming).

Andrews Nathan and Pius Siakwah (2021). Oil and Development in Ghana: Beyond the Resource Curse. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Oil-and-Development-in-Ghana-Beyond-the-Resource-Curse/Andrews-Siakwah/p/book/9780367427191

Links:

https://www2.unbc.ca/international-studies-graduate-program/dr-nathan-andrews

Giuseppe Amatulli

Durham Arctic PhD programme,
Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.
UArctic Board Member (PhD Student Representative)
Fellow of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility
giuseppe.amatulli@durham.ac.uk

Research interests:

  • Cumulative effects of industrial development;
  • Land rights and natural resources exploitation in indigenous traditional territories (ensuring social and environmental justice);
  • Culture, lifestyle, socio-economic organization of First Nations (between traditional lifestyle/practices and market-driven economy);
  • Implementing UNRIP in the Canadian legal framework (Bill c-15 and Bill-41).

Selected publications:

Amatulli Giuseppe, Northern Political Economy (NPI) Symposium 2017: ‘Political Arctic/Arctic Political’, Conference Reports, in ‘The Polar Journal’, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 207-208, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1477306

Amatulli, Giuseppe & Klein, Joëlle, ‘Community security in the Barents Region’, in ‘Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region’. Oxford: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 9780815399841 www.routledge.com/Society-Environment-and-Human-Security-in-the-Arctic-Barents-Region/HossainCambou/p/book/9780815399841

Amatulli, Giuseppe, ‘The role of China in the Arctic: challenges and opportunities for a sustainable development of the region’, pp. 1-8, in Jindal Global Law Review, Springer India, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s41020-017-0042-2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41020-017-0042-2

Links:

https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/arctic/doctoral/2018/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-amatulli-71764675/