Arctic: Development
offered by University of Alberta

Public University
1 Campus
Estd. 1908

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Overview

By the end of this course, you will have an idea of the challenges and opportunities facing Northern communities, and gain an understanding of just what regional development looks like in a changing Arctic.

Duration	4 weeks
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Course Level	UG Certificate

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Highlights

Earn a Paid Certification after completion

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Course details

Skills you will learn

Sustainability

What are the course deliverables?

Gain an understanding of concepts in Northern sustainability, geopolitics, resource management, planning and development.
Learn about the climate resilience in Northern communities, and strategies/initiatives to combat a rapidly changing Arctic.
Learn the importance of and challenges faced by regional planning in a changing Arctic.

More about this course

Explore regional development in the Arctic in this four-week course. Investigate the role that natural resources play across the Indigenous, Nordic, Russian and North American Arctics, and gain an understanding of what regional development looks like in a changing Arctic.

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Curriculum

Module 1 - Understanding the Arctic

In this short introductory module we'll cover the basics of the Arctic, Northern sustainability, geopolitics, resource management, and development.

Module 2 - Resource Management in the Arctic

In this module we'll first take stock of some of the renewable and nonrenewable resources in the Arctic, and explore different resource management strategies employed in each of the four Arctics, encountering a number of "tragedy of the commons" case studies.

Module 3 - Community Management in the Arctic

In this module, we'll turn our attention to community planning and development efforts in an increasingly populated Arctic, and how communities in various Arctic regions form resilience to some of the unique problems faced in these regions.

Module 4 - Development in a Changing Arctic

In this module, we'll see how climate change is impacting the Arctic, and examine a number of structural and non-structural adaptations that different Arctic communities are implementing.

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Faculty details

Joshua Evans, Assistant Professor of Human Geo.

Joshua Evans is a human geographer broadly interested in geographies of exclusion and inclusion. He approaches his work from the vantage point of three interrelated themes: space, knowledge and power.

Jeff Birchall, Assistant Professor of EPACCR

Jeff Birchall runs the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Lab in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta, and leads the UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience.