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Arctic Environmental Conflicts:Implications for the EU Green Deal
No full textWhile the EU Green Deal (EUGD) has been given significant political leverage to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, it faces a booming global competition for critical raw materials (CRM) while also having to decide how to boost Europe’s production to fight its unsustainable dependency on imports while needing to avoid a growing number of legal disputes. Research suggests that global court litigation related to climate action is on the rise, with Indigenous actors and environmental groups successfully challenging government-backed plans for mineral extraction and wind farms. Considering that just a third of the concluded cases in the United States Climate Litigation Database resulted in negative rulings for climate action naturally encourages further lawsuits, a trend that I argue will be amplified by the push for mining, renewable energy and railroad expansion over vast areas of land used for a wide range of other purposes. The term green colonialism (GC) has gained traction as a political concept to oppose mining, expansion of large-scale energy production and its ancillary infrastructure on Indigenous lands. While the Nordic countries hold vast deposits of CRM key for the green transition, they also have a history of conflicts, often in sparsely populated areas, related to large-scale investments including energy production, forestry, transport infrastructure and mineral extraction. The paper examines 13 environmental conflict cases to illustrate the effects of resistance across various levels, and to identify challenges critical to the success of the EU Green Deal
Min Muorra ja Máinnasiid Vuovdi - Meidän puu ja Tarinoiden metsä -yhteisötaideteokset : tuotanto
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Navigating trust in the public procurement judicial remedy system
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze, on the basis of novel empirical data from Finland and previous research literature, trust in procurement judicial review and the factors that influence the decision of businesses to complain or not. Design/methodology/approach: The paper applies legal and social sciences methodology. The background is based on a legal literature review, whereafter it presents the results of a survey that applies qualitative empirical methodology and discusses possible avenues for reform of rules (de lege ferenda, legal dogmatics). The main results are based on an empirical data set collected through a survey to Finnish companies (352 responses). Findings: The results are not encouraging: almost 70 % considered that there is somewhat, a little or no trust in the public procurement judicial review system and its ability to correct an erroneous decision. This is particularly alarming as the lack of trust also appears to affect economic operators’ interest in participating in public contract awards, which is problematic from the perspectives of competition, effective public expenditure and achieving other goals such as sustainability. This study confirms that the decision of whether or not to appeal is primarily a business decision and not closely related to the actual breach in question. The public procurement remedies are designed for enabling courts to correct erroneous decisions, but the system is not equipped to solve the issues of reputational business risks. One way of addressing this issue and increasing the effectiveness of public procurement judicial review and remedies, would be to increase the availability of anonymous review mechanisms and the role of public procurement monitoring authorities. Social implications: Provides new insights how companies view procurement litigation and on how remedies rules should be developed. Originality/value: Collection and application of novel empirical data on factors impacting companies decision-making regarding procurement litigations.</p
Asiantuntijoilta edellytettävä osaaminen hyvinvointijohtamisen yhdyspinnoilla
No full textArtikkelissa tarkastellaan hyvinvointijohtamisen yhdyspintayhteistyön edellyttämää osaamista hyvinvoinnin edistämisen asiantuntijoiden näkökulmasta. Artikkelissa kysytään, millaista osaamista toimiva yhdyspintayhteistyö edellyttää hyvinvointijohtamisen asiantuntijoilta.Osaaminen määritellään hyvinvointijohtamisessa tarvittavien tietojen, taitojen ja kyvykkyyksien yhdistelmäksi, jotka ovat erityisen tärkeitä hyvinvoinnin edistämiseksi ja hyvinvointijohtamisen vaikuttavuuden lisäämiseksi. Yhdyspintayhteistyöllä tarkoitetaan eri organisaatioiden, sektoreiden ja ammattiryhmien välistä yhteistyötä, jossa resurssit ja osaamiset yhdistyvät yhteisten tavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi.Empiirinen aineisto muodostuu hyvinvoinnin edistämisen asiantuntijoilta kerätyistä yksilöhaastatteluista. Aineisto analysoitiin teoriaohjaavalla sisällönanalyysilla. Analyysin perusteella tunnistettiin neljä yhdyspintayhteistyön osaamisen aluetta hyvinvointijohtamisessa: digiteknologian hyödyntämiseen liittyvä osaaminen ja digimyönteinen toimintakulttuuri, resurssien tunnistamisen ja hyödyntämisen osaaminen, kyky ymmärtää ja arvioida toiminnan vaikutuksia sekä johtamisen osaaminen.Artikkelin johtopäätöksinä esitetään, että hyvinvointijohtamisen yhdyspintayhteistyöhön liittyvä osaaminen näyttäytyy vielä melko kapea-alaisena. Tulokset peräänkuuluttavat hyvinvointijohtamisen tarkastelua kokonaisvaltaisena toimintana, systeemistä ajattelua sekä taitoa hahmottaa laaja-alaisia kokonaisuuksia yhdyspintayhteistyössä. Erityisesti korostuu kyky nähdä omaa aluetta tai sektoria laajemmalle sekä kyky resurssien tarkoituksenmukaiseen kohdentamiseen ja hyödyntämiseen yhteistyössä. Tämän lisäksi yhdyspintayhteistyössä tarvitaan osaamista ymmärtää hyvinvointijohtaminen ennakoivana, eri toimijoita yhdistävänä toimintana
Sustaining Relations and Opportunities for Co-creating with Partners in Siberia
No full textField research in Siberia has become a privilege mostly for Russian citizens resident in Russia, when three decades of Western-Russian research collaboration factually came to a halt in February 2022. On the other hand, voices that argue for the continuation of research collaboration have become gradually stronger, specifically on those topics that can only be studied in Siberia. This chapter emphasizes the importance of relations in this respect, as well as the responsibility of the anthropologist to sustain such relations with the Siberian field where this is desired from the other side. We give examples from two years of continued practices in three different ways: communication through social media and phone, co-creation of data and its remote digital transfer, and physical meetings in third countries, in this case Turkey and China. Rather than contemplating the terrible effects of war, we try to explore what opportunities lie in the new ways co-creating field data jointly between Siberians and international researchers
Minimal AMOC impact in Alaska during the Younger Dryas
No full textThe Younger Dryas chronozone (YD), between ∼12,900 and 11,600 years ago, represents a climatically dynamic period in Earth's history that was defined by rapid millennial-scale climate changes. The cause of the climate change during the YD is typically attributed to substantial meltwater flux into the North Atlantic, which weakened the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). However, it is unclear if the climate signal from periods of AMOC shutdown were truly global in nature. Here, by utilizing the transient iTraCE simulation, a coupled climate model simulation of the last deglaciation, we test if the climate in Alaska was strongly influenced by an AMOC forcing. We find no significant impact of a North Atlantic meltwater forcing on Alaska climate during the YD. However, we do find millennial-scale climate changes concurrent with the YD. We argue that the millennial-scale climate change in Alaska during the YD was driven by changes in the tropical Pacific mean state, which could have been mistaken for an AMOC forcing.</p
”Onhan tämä nyt mukavaa, kun on kotonta yhteys suureen maailmaan”:Lapin asukkaiden puhelimeen liittämät toiveet, huolet ja odotukset 1900-luvulla
No full text“It’s nice now that our house is connected to the big world” – hopes, concerns, and expectations related to the telephone among the residents of Lapland in the 20th centuryThis study explores the meanings that residents of northern Finland have attributed to the telephone, as well as the hopes and fears associated with it. The development—or lack thereof—of telephone infrastructure in past decades is linked to the concept of human security. This includes feelings of insecurity in cases of illness or accidents, concerns about poor connections, experiences of injustice, perceptions of the right to participate and stay connected, and the view of the telephone as an enabler of economic activity. In Lapland, telephone lines were extended even to remote villages with the aim of providing residents with a means of communication. However, telephone technology did not always function as expected, and “telephone misery” was also the result of interpersonal conflicts among local residents. The ways in which the telephone was used in Lapland often differed from southern Finland, with state-funded public telephone points playing a central role.The justifications for acquiring a telephone changed over the course of the 20th century. For instance, the need to report car accidents became more prominent from the late 1950s onward. In the 1960s, the growth of tourism, hiking, and the popularity of summer cottages became evident in applications for telephones, as did rising environmental concerns from the late 1960s onwards. Thus, the telephone was not only a catalyst or accelerator of change, but also an indicator through which we can study how everyday life and communities evolved. Establishing telephone connections in Lapland often required unique technical solutions, such as transmission towers built on mountain peaks. While the telephone was generally welcomed, the construction of telephone lines, the placement of public telephone points, and the introduction of new technologies encountered opposition at various times throughout the decades