Time: Wednesday 20 May 16.00-17.30
Room: Planet
Session chairs: Mine Islar, Lund and Copenhagen University, BECC; David Gustafsson, SMHI
Session description
Cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledge systems offer important yet underexplored resources for strengthening climate resilience in the Arctic and other protected areas. This panel examines how place-based knowledge, traditional land-use practices, and cultural stewardship can inform climate adaptation strategies and decision-making. Drawing on collaborative research with Indigenous communities, environmental organizations, and scientific community, the panel aims to highlight pathways for translating Indigenous knowledge into actionable frameworks for water and land use, conservation and climate policy. The panel explores ideas that can integrate cultural heritage into climate action and planning, as well as those that bridge multiple knowledge systems ranging from social sciences, indigenous sciences to climate science and modelling.
Session programme
Minor changes in the programme may occur.
16:00 – Welcome
16:10 – Pluriversal pathways for climate adaptation: A systematic review of Indigenous–researcher collaborations in the Amazon Ana Maria Vargas and Torsten Krause (Lund University & BECC)
16:20 – Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Risks, Loss, and Research Priorities Philip Buckland (Umeå University)
16:35 – Many Worlds, One Nature: Roots of Biodiversity Thought in Ancient Civilizations Hongxiao Jin (Lund University, & BECC/MERGE )
16:45 – “There’s no future in ice”: Lichen, Reindeer, Olfaction and Environmental Change Tarsh Bates (Umeå University)
16:55 – Socio-glaciology approach for addressing loss and damage in the
cryosphere Emma Johansson (Lund University & BECC)
17:10 – Who should care for the wilderness? A multispecies phenomenology in Sarek National Park, Sweden Katherine Burlingame (University of Oslo)
17:20 – Concluding discussion and remarks
