Date

Two-part Session Announcement
Arctic Change 2017
11-15 December 2017
Québec, Canada

For more information about the Conference, go to:
http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/ac2017/index.php

The 2017 International Arctic Change Conference will convene 11-15 December 2017 in Québec, Canada.

Due to the large number of session submissions, this session has been divided into two session times.

Organizers invite attendance at the following two-part session:

SESSION NAV05 - I: Arctic Disaster Risk Reduction
Session chairs: Anne Garland and Liane Benoit
Session dates/times: 14 December 2017, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Session room: 206A

SESSION NAV05 - II: Arctic Disaster Risk Reduction
Session chairs: Anne Garland and Liane Benoit
Session dates/times: 15 December 2017. 8:30-10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Session room: 206A

The Arctic Risk Management Network (ARMNet) is conceived as a trans-disciplinary hub to encourage and facilitate greater cooperation, communication, and exchange among American, Russian, and Canadian academics and practitioners actively engaged in the research, management and mitigation of risks, emergencies, and disasters in the Arctic regions. Its proposed aim is to assist regional decision-makers through the sharing of applied research, best practices, research gaps, and to support greater inter-operability and bilateral collaboration through improved networking, joint exercises, workshops, teleconferences, radio programs, and virtual communications (e.g., webinars). Most importantly, ARMNet is to facilitate a clearinghouse for all information related to the management of the frequent hazards of Arctic climate and geography in North America, including new and emerging challenges arising from climate change, increased maritime polar traffic and expanding economic development to build capacity for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Sendai Framework 2015. Based on feasibility studies in 2015-2016 with the U.S. Embassies of Canada and Russia, the constituency will include northern academics and researchers who apply Arctic science for DRR research, Arctic-based corporations, First Responders (FRs), Emergency Management Offices (EMOs) and Risk Management Offices (RMOs), military, Coast Guard, northern police forces, Search and Rescue (SAR) associations, boroughs, territories, and communities throughout the Arctic.

Presentations during Session NAV05 - I will include:

  • History, goals, and facilitated research of the Arctic Risk Management Network,
  • Closing the gaps: GSAR and incident report management in Nunavik,
  • Constraints and opportunities for Arctic search and rescue prevention and response,
  • Disaster risk reduction in Arctic cruise shipping: The human dimension, and
  • The “Red phone”: Rapid response to environmental emergency alerts. An INTERACT Initiative.

Presentations during Session NAV05 - II will include:

  • A risk-based approach to agriculture in Nunavik;
  • "I have a question for you, being the scientist that you are" - A case study of insider/outsider relations in disaster risk reduction in Utqiaġvik, Alaska;
  • Catastrophic power failure in a remote Arctic community – What have we learned?;
  • Flooding hazard and remote first nation communities: The case of Kashechewan, Northern Ontario; and
  • Historical Ecology for Risk Management: Coastal Observers of Barrow Community Based Monitoring.

For more information about these sessions, go to:
http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/ac2017/docs/ProgramAC2017.pdf (PDF 9,853.82 KB)

For questions, contact:
Anne Garland
Email: awhgarland [at] yahoo.com
Phone: 757-357-0431