Kulturgeografi
Carina Keskitalo
Umeå universitet


Titel:
FD, Universitetslektor
och docent (Associate Professor of Political Science)

Adress: Kulturgeografi Umeå universitet S-901 87 Umeå


Tel: +46 (0)90 - 786 50 80


Fax: +46 (0)90 - 786 63 59


Email: carina.keskitalo@geography.umu.se

 


Carina Keskitalos forskning fokuserar på institutionell anpassning till klimatförändringar och internationellt nordligt miljösamarbete. Keskitalo arbetar också 20% vid institutionen för skoglig naturresurshushållning, SLU Umeå.

Carina Keskitalo's research focuses on institutional adaptation to climate change with examples from multi-level cases and forest systems, as well as on international northern environmental cooperation. Carina Keskitalo is also working 20% at the Department for Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.

Huvudsakliga pågående projekt/main ongoing research projects

January 2007 – December 2010, Vulnerability and resilience of coupled socio-ecological systems in multi-use forests. Research project led by Carina Keskitalo (co-applicant Associate Professor Jon Moen, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden), funded by The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning FORMAS 2007-2010.

January 2008 – December 2011. Organizing adaptation to climate change in Europe: can models and premises for increased adaptive capacity be identified? Led by Associate Professor Carina Keskitalo, funded by Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council, VR).

January 2009-December 2012. Forest Governance in Future Forests. Subproject led by Carina Keskitalo, within the Future Forests research programme funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research MISTRA and the forest industry.

January 2008 – December 2011. Adaptation to climate change in multiple-use forest systems. Led by Associate Professor Carina Keskitalo, funded by FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning).

January 2006 – December 2008 (project work expected to continue until 2010). Researcher in the International Polar Year (IPY) Status Project Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions (CAVIAR). Led by Research Director Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, Norwegian Centre for Climate Research and co-chaired by Professor Barry Smit, Canada Research Chair in Human Dimensions of Global Change, University of Guelph, Canada.

June 2008-June 2010. Adaptations of natural resource-based communities to climatic and societal changes - Sami reindeer herding in the past, present and future. Research school led by Jon Moen, Umeå University (Keskitalo as co-applicant) funded by the Sustainable development – interdisciplinary research with a focus on the environment call under VR, FORMAS and the Swedish National Space Board.

January 2008-December 2010. Local development based on tradition and new actions in family forests: hinders and opportunities. Research school led by Gun Lidestav, Swedish University of Agricultural Science (Keskitalo as co-applicant), funded by the FORMAS Landsbygdsutveckling programme.

Publikationer i urval/selected recent publications

- Böcker/books and special features:

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2004) Negotiating the Arctic. The Construction of an International Region. Routledge, New York and London. 282 p.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2008) Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic: An Integrated Approach to Vulnerability Assessment. Earthscan Publications, London. 257 p.

Koivurova, T., E. C. H. Keskitalo, and N. Bankes (2009, eds) Climate Governance in the Arctic. Springer Verlag, Hanover.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (March 2010, ed). The Development of Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Berlin. Approx. 250p.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (under development, ed) Special Feature: Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Forest Systems. Ecology and Society.

- Tidskriftsartiklar/international journal articles:

Keskitalo, E. C. H. and L. Lundmark (2010, accepted) “The route of no return(s)? Peoples’ perception of protected areas and forest sector employment in Norrbotten, Sweden”. Society and Natural Resources, vol. 23, issue 1 (January 2010), 32 p.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., C. Sandström, M. Tysiachniouk, and J. Johansson (2009). “Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia”. Ecology and Society 14(2): 1. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art1/

Keskitalo, E. C. H. and A. A. Kulyasova (2009) “The role of governance in community adaptation to climate change”. Polar Research, Vol. 28, No. 1 (April 2009), pp. 60-70.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2009) “Governance in Vulnerability Assessment: the role of decision-making networks in determining local vulnerability and adaptive capacity”. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. Vol.14, No. 2 (February, 2009), pp. 185-201

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2008) ”Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in forestry in northern Europe: a Swedish case study”. Climatic Change 87:219–234

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2007) ”International Region-Building. The Development of the Arctic as an International Region”. Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 42, No. 2 (June 2007), pp. 187-205.

Keskitalo, E. Carina H. (2004) ”A Framework For Multi-Level Stakeholder Studies In

Response To Global Change”. Local Environment (Special Issue on Multi-Level

Governance), Vol. 9, No. 5, October 2004, pp. 425–435.


Westerhoff, L., E.C.H. Keskitalo and S. Juhola (submitted) "Capacities across scales: local to national adaptation policy in four European countries". 15p.

Juhola, S., E.C.H. Keskitalo and L. Westerhoff (submitted) “Understanding the framings of climate change adaptation across multiple scales of governance in Europe”. 17p.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., L. Westerhoff and S. Juhola (submitted) “Agenda-setting on the Environment: the development of climate change adaptation as an issue in European States”. 25p.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., S. Juhola and L. Westerhoff (submitted) "Climate Change Adaptation as Governmentality: Technologies of Government in the Development of Adaptation Policy in Four Countries". 23p.

Jansson, R. C. Keskitalo, C. Nilsson, T. Vlassova, M-L. Sutinen, J. Moen, F. S. Chapin III, K. A. Bråthen, M. Cabeza, T.V. Callaghan, R.Anker Ims, P.E. Aspholm (submitted) ”Principles of forecasting the impacts of climate change on ecosystem service supply: an assessment of the European north”. 45 p.

Holmlund, E., E. C. H. Keskitalo and G. Lidestav (submitted) Swedish Forest Commons – A Matter of Governance? 25p.

- Kapitel i böcker och konferensproceedings/chapters in international edited books and conference proceedings:

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2010.) “Introduction: Adaptation to Climate Change in Europe – Theoretical Framework and Study Design”. In: Keskitalo, E. C. H. (March 2010, ed). The Development of Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2010) “Climate Change Adaptation in the UK”. In: Keskitalo, E. C. H. (March 2010, ed). The Development of Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2010) “Adaptation to Climate Change in Sweden”. In: Keskitalo, E. C. H. (March 2010, ed). The Development of Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2010) “Conclusion”. In: Keskitalo, E. C. H. (March 2010, ed). The Development of Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2010) ”Adaptive capacity and adaptation in Swedish multi-use boreal forests: sites of interaction between different land uses”. In: Armitage, D. and R. Plummer (in press, eds) Adaptive Capacity: Building Environmental Governance in an Age of Uncertainty. Springer, Berlin.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., and A. A. Kulyasova (2009) “Local adaptation to climate change in fishing villages and forest settlements in north-western Russia”. In: Nystén-Haarala, S. (ed) The Changing Governance of Renewable Natural Resources in Northwest Russia. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 227-243.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2009) “’The North’ – Is there such a thing? Deconstructing/contesting Northern and Arctic discourse”. In: Hansson, H. and C. Norberg (eds) Cold Matters. Cultural Perceptions of Snow, Ice and Cold. Northern Studies Monographs No. 1, Umeå University, Umeå, pp. 23-39.

Keskitalo, E. C. H., T. Koivurova, and N. Bankes (2009) “Introduction: Climate change adaptation and mitigation”. In: Koivurova, T., E. C. H. Keskitalo, and N. Bankes (eds) Climate Governance in the Arctic. Springer Verlag, Hanover.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2009) “Can Arctic governance support regional climate change adaptation?” In: Koivurova, T., E. C. H. Keskitalo, and N. Bankes (eds) Climate Governance in the Arctic. Springer Verlag, Hanover.

N. Bankes, T. Koivurova, and E. C. H. Keskitalo (2009) “Conclusions”. In: Koivurova, T., E. C. H. Keskitalo, and N. Bankes (eds) Climate Governance in the Arctic. Springer Verlag, Hanover.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2007) "Vulnerability in forestry, fishing and reindeer herding systems in northern Europe and Russia". In Fischer, S., H. Pleines, H-H. Schröder (eds) Movements, migrants, marginalisation. Challenges of societal and political participation in Eastern Europe and the enlarged EU. Ibidem Publishers: Stuttgart, pp. 203-212.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2005) “Sustainable development and human dimensions: environmental initiatives”. In Nuttall, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Routledge, London and New York. 3 volumes, pp. 1972-1975.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2004) “The Arctic as an International Region—But For Whom?” In Tanja Joona and Timo Koivurova (eds.) Arctic Governance. Northern Institute of Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, p. 2-26.

Keskitalo, E. C. H. (2004) “Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Forestry, Fishing and Reindeer-Herding Systems in Northern Europe”. In ACIA (ed) ACIA International Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-12 November 2004. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, pp. 262-266.

Keskitalo, C.; C. Moore, and J. Braathen (2003) “The Power of Perceptions in and of the North” in Duhaime, G. and N. Bernard (ed) Arctic Economic Development and Self-Government. Universite Laval, Quebec, pp. 297-314.

Tennberg, M. and E. C. H. Keskitalo (2002) “Global change and institutional responses—discourse analytic approaches”. In Käyhkö, J. and L. Talve (eds) Understanding the global system. The Finnish perspective. Finnish Global Change Research Programme, Turku, pp. 225-228.

Keskitalo C., C. Limpangog, E. Williams (2002) "Visions of citizenship: Women, Democracy and Information" in Floyd C., G. Kelkar, S. Klein-Franke, C. Kramarae, C. Limpangog (eds) Feminist Challenges in the Information Age. Leske + Budrich, Opladen Germany, pp. 315-327.

Kommunikation med det omgivande samhället/Swedish language papers and popular science presentations (selection)

Keskitalo, C. (2009) ”Arktis är inget undantag”. Tidskriften Ymer (specialnummer redigerat av Sverker Sörlin och Gunhild Rosqvist).

Keskitalo E. C. H. (2008). ”Konflikter mellan rennäring och skogsbruk i Sverige”. I: Sandström, C., S. Hovik & E. I, Falleth (ed.). Omstridd natur. Trender & utmaningar i nordisk naturförvaltning. Borea, Umeå, s. 248-268.

Keskitalo, C. (2008) “Deltagandedemokrati och beslutslegitimitet i flernivåstyrningssystem”. Samhällsforskning 2008. Betydelsen för människorna, hembygden och regionen av ett slutförvar för använt kärnbränsle. SKB, Oskarshamn, s. 144-163.

Keskitalo, C. (2007) "Hur påverkas skogsbruk, fiske och rennäring i Barentsregionen av globalisering och klimatförändringar?" In Hallberg, T. (ed) Barents - ett gränsland i norden. Föreningen Norden: Stockholm, pp. 165-181.

”Climate change in the Arctic: What can we expect? The BALANCE Stakeholder Portal”. Stakeholder Portal online at www.northportal.info, developed together with Nicole Ostländer. Finalist in the Baltic Challenge Information Technology Award 2006.

 

 
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