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5/20/2019 10:57:14Program2012-
Markku Kulmala, Hanna Lappalainen
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research University of Helinki
hanna.k.lappalainen@helsinki.fi
China, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Russia
Artic boreal environments, mega cities
The Eurasian Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) is a multidisciplinary, multi-scale program focused on solving grand challenges in northern Eurasia and China focusing in Arctic and boreal regions. PEEX will also help to develop service, adaptation and mitigation plans for societies to cope with global change. It is a bottom-up initiative by several European, Russian and Chinese research organizations and institutes with co-operation of US and Canadian organizations and Institutes. The PEEX approach emphasizes that solving challenges related to climate change, air quality and cryospheric change requires large-scale coordinated co-operation of the international research communities. Strong involvement and international collaboration between European, Russian and Chinese partners is needed to answer the climate policy challenge: how will northern societies cope with environmental changes?
https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/index.php/2-uncategorised/60-home
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6/9/2020 3:11:25
Scientific Meeting, Scientific Research
Editing and distributing environmental education book "Permafrost and Culture: Global Warming and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation"
Completed2019Prof. Hiroki TakakuraTohoku University, Japan
hiroki.takakura.a8@tohoku.ac.jp
Institute of Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North, SBRAS, Russia; Melnikov Permafrost Institute, SBRAS, Russia; Hokkaido University, Japan; National Polar Institute, Japan; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan; Nagoya University, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples , Japan; National Museum of Ethnology, Japan; Mie University, Japan; Kyushu University, Japan; Leipzig University, Germany; Hamburg University, Germany
Germany, Japan, Russia
Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Social & Human, Terrestrial
Lena river basin (Yakutia)62N, 130E
This joint study to edit environmental education textbook is an attempt to understand the impact of global warming on human societies in the Arctic/North in terms of the local peoples and cultures, or from the indigenous perspectives, by focusing on the peoples living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. This study have been made under the Japanese Arctic research scientific project ArCS. Different lifestyles exist in the modern Arctic: the indigenous peoples in tundra and taiga, the residents of urban settlements, as well as the populations in areas of development and exploitation of natural resources. Today, climate change has made a drastic impact on the Arctic. Therefore, an integrated vision consisting of both global and local perspectives is needed to comprehensively understand climate change and its consequences for the Arctic.

Historically, and also today, the livelihood of the Sakha people is closely related to permafrost. Scientific evidence shows that the thawing of the permafrost through climate change is causing severe problems on a global scale, which is alarming both international organizations and global citizens. Scientific studies confirming actual changes to the local environment, and the communities in permafrost areas are published continuously in academia. However, it is questionable whether scientists are adequately communicating this information to both the general public and the local populations. Climate change is a global phenomenon; however, it often manifests itself as regional and local natural disasters, which makes that it is essential to view climate change from a regional perspective. Therefore, focusing on particular regions and examining specific situations in detail provides a more accurate picture of the global situation.

Russian and Japanese researchers have been conducting joint research in the Siberian region from the perspectives of social and natural sciences since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Editing the environmental education book is one result of long-term, Russian — Japanese collaboration. The primary readership of the book is explicitly designated as young people — university student and high school students because climate change primarily affects the future of the Arctic and the entire planet. The authors of this joint study believe that a deeper understanding of the history and the prevailing conditions of the environment and cultures of the Arctic/North is the key to building a sustainable future for all human beings. We hope that this book would allow the reader to connect with the amazing dynamism of the permafrost and its cultures, and facilitate profound consideration about the future of the region and the whole planet.
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