This academic seminar will be organised around paper presentations and discussions on various aspects of the conference theme. We are now welcoming contributions to the conference from all disciplines on any matter relating to natural resources and sustainable development in peripheral regions. The seminar will be held in English.
Read the call for papers here.
Programme 21 November 2024
09.00 Welcome – Dieter Müller, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research
09.15 Keynote – Thomas Wågberg: A materials perspective on sustainable hydrogen production
Thomas Wågberg is Head of Department and Professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University.
09.45 Keynote – Jon Moen: Natural resources for whom and why?
Jon Moen is professor at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science.
10.15 Coffee break
10.45 Keynote – Janina Priebe: New game board requires new rules - about the development of forestry
Janina Priebe, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Umeå University, will talk about if a transition in forestry is to be possible, it is necessary to review and update the rules that were created based on the conditions that prevailed in the 1990s. And also that the climate transition needs to take place on several levels simultaneously – both in the forest and in society.
11.15 Media Discourses of a Changing Swedish North: News and Op-Eds about the “Green” Industrial Transition – Annika Egan Sjölander, professor, and Mikaela Wikström, Doctoral student at Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University.
11.45 Summary of the morning's sessions
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Waste-2-Plastic, Recycling of CO2, nitrogen, phosphorus and water to generate bioplastic – Christiane Funk, professor at Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
13.30 ‘Arctification’ and overtourism while ‘greening’ the ‘Green’: Cross-functional, inter-agency and horizontal collaboration over land use conflicts – Anna Zachrisson, Associate Professor at Department of Political Science, Umeå University.
14.00 Altered Geographies: The Wounds of Post-Industrial Sites – Alejandro Haiek Coll, Umeå School of Architecture.
14.30 Coffee break
14.45 Hot research connecting industries in the green transition, Markus Broström, professor at Department of Applied Physics and Electronics.
16.00 Conference ends