Publications
Our publications include more than traditional reports. They span formats such as StoryMaps, apps, photo essays and multimedia. Each one is designed to communicate complex environmental challenges in ways that are visual, engaging, and grounded in real-world impact.
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Saami Reindeer Pastoralism under Climate Change: Applying a Generalized Framework for Vulnerability Studies to a Sub-Arctic Social–Ecological System
A generalized vulnerability framework was used to structure an interdisciplinary and intercultural examination of factors that influence the ways in which reindeer pastoralism in Finnmark (northern Norway) may be affected by climate change. Regional and local (downscaled) climate projections included scenarios that can potentially influence foraging conditions for reindeer. None of the projections were without…
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Generating Information to Support Integrated Marine Planning: Advantages and Challenges of a Collaborative Approach
The pdf file is available by purchase in the link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Generating-information-to-support-integrated-marine-Ayers-Ban/1f2b84dfc40ea8beae8202c0686eab9e9e94ee84#paper-header
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The Effect of Recreational Homes on Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus Lagopus) in a Mountain Area of Norway
The increasing development of recreational resorts and second homes in mountain regions worldwide require substantial infrastructure, and have large impact on habitats and ecosystems. We hypothesized that developed areas would attract predators and lead to higher predation on willow ptarmigan and lower their abundance. In a 500-km2 study area in south-central Norway, we sampled the…
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Effects of Recreational Cabins, Trails and their Removal for Restoration of Reindeer Winter Ranges
Conservation efforts have secured the partial recovery of Europe’s wild reindeer, although only in 24 separate fragments of their original range, now separated by resorts and roads. Full recovery of the original range will require restoration of migration routes across developed or disturbed areas. We analyzed distribution of around 3500 Rangifer tarandus tarandus (reindeer) during…
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Identifying Priority Areas for Marine Conservation In British Columbia: A Collaborative Approach
Implementation of marine conservation measures has been slow in British Columbia, providing the motivation for initiating the British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) project. The purpose of the BCMCA project is to collaboratively identify areas of high conservation interest for the marine waters of British Columbia. The project team is comprised of representatives from academia,…
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Addressing Environmental Information Efforts: The Impact-of-Information Chain
This paper discusses common and failures of public environmental information services and suggests as an alternative a shift towards supply-rather than demand-driven environmental information. The discussion is put into a framework of the impact-of-information chain which is described in much more detail, with numerous examples and arguments, in UNEP/GRID-Arendal (2001a). The paper draws n particular…
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Predicting Habitat for Two Species of Deep-Water Coral on the Canadian Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope
Mapping marine habitats and species distributions is essential in conservation and resource management. The generation of such maps, however, is particularly challenging for the poorly sampled deep-sea species. In this study, we explored the spatial suitability of deep-water coral (Families Paragorgiidae and Primnoidae) habitat on both the Pacific and Atlantic Continental Margins of North America…
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Distribution of Deep-Water Corals along the North American Continental Margins: Relationships with Environmental Factors
Despite the increasing attention to assemblages of deep-water corals in the past decade, much of this research has been focused on documenting and enumerating associated fauna. However, an understanding of the distribution of most species of coral and the ecological processes associated with these assemblages is still lacking. In this study, we qualitatively and quantitatively…
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A Reevaluation of Caribou Distribution Near an Oilfield Road on Alaska’s North Slope
Noel et al. (2004) claimed that oil development on Alaska’s North Slope has not adversely affected caribou (Rangifer tarandus) distribution. Their argument was based on the lack of statistical difference between caribou densities at different distances from the Milne Point road, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, USA, 10-20 years after its construction. Our primary criticisms of that…
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Large-Scale Environmental Dynamics: Assessing Processes and Impacts
Global environmental change is now impacting all parts of our globe and generates enormous challenges to the scientific environment. In particular, our ability to communicate to policymakers clear messages regarding complex biological and social interactions will become essential to sustainable development. Major environmental threats include, but are not limited to, fragmentation and habitat loss, over-exploitation,…
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Contaminants in Svalbard Polar Bear Samples Archived since 1967 and Possible Population Level Effects
Blood plasma samples were collected in 1967 from 32 polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in eastern Svalbard. These samples were stored frozen until 2001 and then analyzed for 33 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), two toxaphene congeners, DDTs, chlordanes (CHL), hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), and polybrominated flame retardants (biphenyls and diphenyl ethers). The 1967 pollutant levels were compared with…
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The Oil Adventure and Indigenous People in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Northwestern Russia)
Approximately 6500 Nenets and 5000 Komi indigenous people, most of them somehow related to reindeer husbandry, live in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Large portions of Nenets reindeer pastures, especially in the neighbouring Yamal area, were devastated by reckless oil prospecting in the 1960s to 1980s. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the…
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Effects of Infrastructure on Migration and Range Use of Wild Reindeer
We studied reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) distribution in relation to possible travel barriers (roads and power lines) in south-central Norway, 1997-2000, using lichen biomass as an indicator of reindeer use. We recorded lichen cover on both sides of potential barriers within comparable habitat in 42 sites for 3 different reindeer herds. We used cover-biomass regressions…
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Along Track Scanning Radiometer World Fire Atlas: Validation of the 1997-98 Active Fire Product
The 1997 Kyoto Convention revealed to the general public that, industrial and agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other Greenhouse gases threaten to change the climate rapidly. The Baveno Manifesto reflected the importance to Europe of Global Environment Monitoring by space as a component of the Kyoto Convention implementation. Remote sensing data from the…
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Global Warming May Lead to Catastrophic Floods in the Himalayas
In Nepal, data from 49 surveillance stations show that there has been a distinct temperature increase since the middle of the 1970s, the greatest changes being on the highest summits. When lakes overfill and beaches threaten to break down, this is a result of the global warming that melts the glaciers. The glaciers in Bhutan…
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Environment and Security: 2050 Scenarios
This paper analyses the relationship between global geopolitical stability and environmental pressures in a 50-year scenario. Many environmental pressures in developing countries are directly or indirectly associated with infrastructure development related to multinational networks of mining, logging, petroleum and dam operations. Deforestation and regulation of rivers for hydropower and irrigation put enormous pressures on amount…
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Human Activities Threaten Coral Reefs
Research indicates that 58 per cent of the coral reefs of the world are threatened by human activities. Pollution and global heating represent some of the threats. Coral reefs just beneath the surface of the sea are very sensitive to temperature changes. Since 1979, mass death of coral reefs has been reported increasingly often. More…
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Classification of Submarine Canyons of the Australian Continental Margin
Submarine canyons influence oceanographic processes, sediment transport, productivity and benthic biodiversity from the continental shelf to the slope and beyond. However, not all canyons perform the same function. The relative influence of an individual canyon on these processes will, in part, be determined by its form, shape and position on the continental margin. Here we…
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Sustainable Production of Bio-Based Chemicals and Polymers via Integrated Biomass Refining and Bioprocessing in a Circular Bioeconomy Context
The sustainable production of bio-based chemicals and polymers is highly dependent on the development of viable biorefinery concepts using crude renewable resources for the production of diversified products. Within this concept, this critical review presents the availability of fractionated co-products and fermentable sugars that could be derived from major industrial and food supply chain side…
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Habitats of the Su Su Knolls Hydrothermal Site, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
The Manus Basin is a rapidly opening (∼10 cm/yr) back-arc basin located between directionally opposed fossil and active subduction zones. The basin, as a whole, tectonically lies within the zone of convergence between the Australian and Pacific plates and is composed of two smaller fragments: the North and South Bismarck microplates. Su Su Knolls, located in…
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Recent Sedimentary Processes in the Cap de Creus Canyon Head and Adjacent Continental Shelf, NE Spain: Evidence from Multibeam Bathymetry, Sub-Bottom Profiles and Coring
High-resolution seafloor bathymetry and shallow sub-bottom profile data reveal a range of geomorphic expressions in the Cap de Creus canyon head and its adjacent continental shelf, which can be tied to processes of deposition and erosion. A complete suite of geophysical and acoustic data and large set of cores (piston, kasten and box cores) were…
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The Arctic Ocean and UNCLOS Article 76: Are there Any Commons?
Media, research literature, workshops, and political meetings over the past years have had a surprisingly rich, and partly under informed by fact, debate on race for resources and possible conflicts in the Arctic. This paper takes a careful look at UN Law of the Seas, Article 76 which regulate rights to the seabed outside exclusive…
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Overview Report: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and their relevance to the Arctic
Rapid environmental changes are taking place in the Arctic, threatening the livelihoods of northern peoples and endangering arctic flora and fauna. These changes, and those predicted for the future, will have global effects. Sea level rise from melting ice, altered global ocean circulation from changes in the polar seas, and changes to arctic breeding grounds…
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Among the charred remains
Investigation unveils how a Chinese-run company aided by government officials exports charcoal and timber despite a ban in Nigeria.
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The Women Who Stand Against Fracking in the Middle Magdalena Valley
This story illustrates how the future of water and biodiversity of the region is in peril.
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Increase in Oxygen Depletion in the Marine Environment: Drivers and Recommendations
The working paper seeks to understand the location, extent, and duration of coastal dead zone formation.
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Zero Draft Elements
GRID-Arendal has developed a synopsis of the Zero draft text of the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.
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GRID-Arendal Procurement Policy
This Policy sets out the principles that shall govern the procurement of goods and services of GRID-Arendal.