CALL FOR PAPERS
16 Feb, 2016
Seminar: Integrated governance of natural resources - law, policy and practices
Ilomantsi, 7th and 8th of June, 2016
The main aim of the seminar is to bring together academic scholars to discuss integrated approaches
to the governance of natural resources and to analyze the means for integrating competing uses of
natural resources based on the recent research. The seminar focuses on the research that engages, in
particular, with mining and forestry. It addresses the question of how to integrate mining and
forestry sustainably with other land use interests and what type of tools, such as land-use planning,
impact assessments or mediations, could be useful to that end. Reducing conflicts in the mining and
forestry sectors through environmentally and socially responsible management practices belongs
also to the key themes of the seminar. Furthermore, the event is open for the papers teasing out the
theories and concepts, such as social license to operate (SLO), related to sustainable use of natural
resources.
Researchers and doctoral students are invited to propose presentations for the seminar. Furthermore,
the organizers encourage PhD students to present a paper. Papers up to 20 pages will be commented
in the seminar by the key note speakers.
The seminar is organized by Institute for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (LYY),
University of Eastern Finland, in cooperation with research projects TERLA and WAPEAT funded
by the Academy of Finland. The UEF Doctoral Programmes Social and Cultural Encounters and
Time, Space and Environment in Society support the organization of the event.
The venue of the seminar: Mustikkamäki, Maukkula, Ilomantsi
(http://www.maukkulanmustikkamaki.fi/)
Draft Programme
Tue, 7th of June, at 10-18
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Opening and short introduction: Senior lecturer Ismo Pölönen, University of Eastern Finland
10:15-13:00 Key note speakers and discussion
Prof. Kevin Hanna, University of British Columbia: Data as a response to Conflict: A Framework
for Cumulative Effects Assessment in British Columbia
Kaisa Raitio (Associate professor in environmental communication, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences SLU) & Rasmus Kløcker Larsen (Research fellow, Stockholm Environment
Institute): Flipping the perspective on cumulative impact assessment: Sámi reindeer herding
community invites public authorities to reflect on their permitting practices
13:00 Lunch
14:00-17:00 Seminar presentations
18:00 Dinner
19:30- Sauna and social event
Wed 8th of June, at 9-15
8:00-9:00 Breakfast at Mustikkamäki
9:00 9:15-10:30 Key note speakers and discussion
Prof. Juha Kotilainen, University of Eastern Finland: European Union minerals policy under
construction: Implications for land use planning
Senior lecturer, Assoc. Prof., Christina Allard, Luleå University of Technology/UiT The Arctic
University of Norway: The Law Related to Mining in Sweden/Norway and the Sami Reindeer
Herding-Right
10:30 coffee break
11:00 Seminar presentations
Senior lecturer Ismo Pölönen: Integrating mining with other interests through master planning –
Case of Kuusamo
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00 Seminar presentations
15:00 Take-home points and closing: Prof. Kevin Hanna & Prof. Rauno Sairinen
Registration & presentations
Registration: https://elomake.uef.fi/lomakkeet/13158/lomake.html by 15st of April.
If you are interested in presenting, send your abstract (max 500 words) to [email protected]
until 25th May.
PhD students may also submit full papers (max. 20 pages). Full papers should be submitted by 15th
of May to [email protected]
The detailed programme will be developed based on the proposed presentations.
Accommodation and transportation
The venue of the seminar (Mustikkamäki) offers accommodation for the participants (40
euros/night, breakfast included). The rooms are for 2-5 five persons (+ a room with 10 beds).
Please, mention your wish for the accommodation at Mustikkamäki in the registration form. Inform
also the possible names of the colleagues you would like to share room with.
Other accommodation possibilities in Ilomantsi, see:
http://www.ilomantsi.fi/majoituspalvelut
The organizer will arrange transportations from Joensuu (parking lot front of the university building
Aurora II) to the Mustikkamäki on Tuesday (8.15) and back to Joensuu on Wednesday (15:30).
The seminar (including lunches, dinner and coffees) are free of charge; however, participants are
responsible for their accommodation costs and travelling to Joensuu.
Further information:
Ismo Pölönen ([email protected]), tel. + 40 594 6024
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Kevin Hanna is a professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the UBC Centre
for Environmental Assessment Research. Prof. Hanna´s research centres on environmental impact
assessment and integrated natural resource management. He has collaborated with colleagues in
Finland and Sweden in research and writing on impact assessment and forest management. Dr.
Hanna’s work is published widely in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of impact assessment,
planning, and natural resources management. He is also the editor and author of books on impact
assessment (Oxford), integrated resource management (Oxford) and parks and protected areas
(Routledge), and community forestry (Cambridge).
Kaisa Raitio, PhD in Environmental Policy (University of Eastern Finland), is Associate Professor
in Environmental Communication at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research
interests concern conflicts, communicative planning and conflict management regarding natural
resources in the North, particularly in relation to indigenous peoples’ rights. Her empirical focus has
been on forestry in Finland and Canada and mining in Sweden. She currently leads a three-year
research project on constructivity and destructivity in environmental conflicts (funded by Formas
2015-2017), and is involved in two interdisciplinary research projects related to mining, cumulative
impacts and reindeer herding rights in Sápmi (funded by Formas and Swedish EPA).
Juha Kotilainen is Professor of mining policy and politics in the University of Eastern Finland,
Department of Geographical and Historical and Studies, Environmental Policy section. His research
focuses on the politics of the extraction of natural resources and transformations of local
communities with a relation to the extractive sector, with case studies in Finland and in the post-
communist context. He has published, for example, in the journals Resources Policy, European
Planning Studies, and Environmental Politics, and edited books dealing with human-nature relations
and regional and local development, and authored chapters in books published by, for example,
Routledge and Ashgate.
Christina Allard is LLD, Senior Lecturer at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and
Associate Professor II at the Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research
interests centre on Sami and indigenous peoples’ rights comparatively and within the context of the
recognition of territorial rights, natural resource use and environmental protection. She has in
particular analysed jurisdictions like Norway, Finland, Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. Allard
is Project Leader of a Nordic research network, NORSIL, www.uit.no/jurfak/norsil). Apart from
several journal articles she has recently published a monograph Renskötselrätt i nordisk belysning
[The reindeer-herding right from a Nordic perspective] and co-edited Indigenous Rights in
Scandinavia (Ashgate) and is currently co-editing another anthology, Sami Customary Rights in
Modern Landscapes. She participates in two interdisciplinary research projects where one in
particular relates to mining in Sápmi and reindeer herding.