The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland is
participating in the new research project, in which a multidisciplinary
international group of scientists is pondering how the long-developed Western
juridical-political governing principles can be applied to the glacial environments.
”Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the
World”, coordinated by professor Philip Steinberg from the Durham University, has
been granted a funding for three years by Leverhulme Trust, an UK foundation. The
project is a part of a larger undertaking about ice law that has been developed by
professor Steinberg, Arctic Centre Research Professor Timo Koivurova, and several
other researchers.

In the project, Research Professor
Koivurova is responsible for a research package that studies the juridical
challenges of the often arbitrary juridical separation between the sea and land.
“The governing principles that are based on the separate ways of governing between
land and sea are problematic when applied to the ice of the Arctic Ocean, for
instance”, says Koivurova.

A three-year research project,
beginning in January 2016, may yet be granted an additional funding from the
National Science Foundation, a major US source of research funding. From the Arctic
Centre, also Senior Researcher Anna Stammler-Gossman is participating in the
project. She is leading a research package that concentrates on the ways the
indigenous people and the local communities in the Arctic adapt in and use their icy
environments.

Additional
information:

Research Professor Timo
Koivurova
timo.koivurova@ulapland.fi, +358 40 551 9522

Senior Researcher Anna Stammler-Gossman
Anna.Stammler-Gossmann@ulapland.fi, +358 400 882 065