Theme: Environment

Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies futures symposium in September in Rovaniemi – Call for abstracts

25.3.2025 10:30

Welcome to the first Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies futures (SuMu) symposium on-location in Rovaniemi at the University of Lapland (Finland) September 23–25, 2025.

Three NordForsk fundings for Arctic Centre researchers

21.3.2025 10:34

NordForsk, a subsidiary of the Nordic Council, has granted funding for nine Arctic research projects, three of which involve researchers from the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. The total funding received by Minna Turunen, Timo Koivurova and Florian Stammler is almost 900,000 euros.

Traffic on crossroads in Rovaniemi in winter time. Photo: Elli Alasaari.

Seminar on the impact of the sustainability transitions on Arctic transport

28.11.2024 15:38

How sustainability transitions can affect transport and mobility systems in the Arctic region, especially in Lapland? This topic has been studied by a research project carried out at the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lapland. Project's topic and results will be discussed in a webinar on 10 December 2024.

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The Strategic Research Council granted funding for the Faculty of Law to study water security

22.11.2024 8:08

The Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Research Council of Finland has granted significant funding for WaterFall consortium. The University of Lapland’s share of the funding in the first phase is 389.560 euros.

The main building of the University of Lapland and a silhouette of the Rovaniemi downtown in autumn, from the bird perspective. Photo: Ville Rinne.

The University of Lapland has updated its environment programme

16.5.2024 12:02

The environment programme of the University of Lapland comprises university's environmental principles and goals, as well as the measures to achieve them. The programme has been made for the years 2024–2026.

University of Lapland renewed the Green Office certificate and calculated the carbon footprint

4.12.2023 8:28

This autumn, the University of Lapland has conducted an evaluation of the WWF Green Office criteria, based on which the University of Lapland's campus meets the criteria. University of Lapland's Working Group on the Environment also calculated the carbon footprint. In 2022, the university's operations produced an estimated carbon emission of 3,652 tons.

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New book about everyday life and adaptation in the changing Arctic climate

7.9.2023 14:15

Volume edited by Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg “Living and Working with Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic” brings together accounts of contemporary engagement with Arctic and Subarctic weather conditions affected by climatic changes and requiring continuous adaptation.

New MOOC: Northern Perspectives on Sustainability

25.8.2023 9:00

The Northern Perspectives on Sustainability online course enables you to to acquaint yourself with academic and artistic viewpoints advocated by ULapland to promote sustainable development. The content focuses on social scientific environmental research and environmental art. The online course is open to all, free of charge, and can be completed in Finnish or English.

Blossoms of Anthemis tinctoria on a wool sample dyed with them. Photo: Jenni-Liisa Yliniva, 2023.

The cultural tradition of colors and dyeing is combined with the latest technology in an EU-funded project

6.4.2023 14:30

The degree programme in Fashion, Textile Art and Material Studies takes part in an extensive project that combines the cultural tradition of colorants and textile dyeing with the development of new dyeing technologies and bio-based dyes. The international project is financed by the European Union's Horizon Europe framework programme.

A hand holding a plastic cube on a wooden surface. Photo: Siiri Paananen.

EU funding of 600,000 euros for the Faculty of Art and Design for plastics circular economy research

22.9.2022 15:47

The Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland has been granted 600 000 euros in research funding as part of the EU-funded PlastLIFE project. The PlastLIFE project, addressing sustainable development and circular economy, focuses on reducing plastics and making their recycling more efficient. The Faculty of Art and Design will study, for example, design solutions to reduce the amount of plastic and test new replacement materials for plastics.

Dissertation: Sled dogs transforming the tourist landscape

22.9.2022 8:30

In his dissertation in tourism research, Mikko Äijälä, MSocSc, studies the agency of sled dogs in forming a local tourist landscape. His idea of multispecies trails helps us understand how the significance of animals can be included in the implementation of animal tourism services.

ValueBioMat reseach project studies the whole life cycle of plastics: bio-based and recycled plastic, novel 100 percent renewable materials, resource efficient production, digital technologies and on-site production, new business models, and policies supporting the sustainable change.

Strategic Research Council's continued funding to study sustainable change in plastic production and use

21.6.2022 12:15

Multidisciplinary ValueBioMat research project has been granted continued funding from the Strategic Research Council, established within the Academy of Finland. It studies how the whole value chain of plastic production and use could be made more sustainable. The Faculty of Law at the University of Lapland is one of the project partners, together with Aalto University, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

Doctoral dissertation: Knowledge Integration in Co-management: A Study on the People of the Mount Cameroon National Park

22.2.2022 8:30

Ayonghe Akonwi Nebasifu, M.A., studies in his dissertation the unequal power relations between officials and local people in the co-management of the Mount Cameroon National Park and its adjacent communities. Ayonghe’s work contributes to co-management theory by revealing simultaneous compliance with and opposition to various relations of power in which people use official and unofficial strategies to attain their goals within a system of resource management.

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Survey about Urban Nature and Biodiversity

15.2.2022 12:23

Urban Biodiversity Survey, a joint project of the Finnish Nature Panel and the Arctic Centre, aims to examine the development and present state of the urban biodiversity in Finnish cities and assess the future of the urban nature.

Finnish universities publish 12 ambitious theses and intend to become leaders in sustainable development

24.11.2020 14:47

Carbon neutrality by 2030, sustainable development at the heart of strategies, and strong support for the Finnish Government's climate and biodiversity goals. All of the above is included in the plans of Finnish universities through mutual theses on sustainable development and responsibility, which have been published today.

Arctic Centre joining a Horizon 2020 project on sustainable management in extractive industries

5.11.2020 10:05

The Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland will lead Work Package 2 (Clustering and meta-analysis) of the EU Horizon 2020 project SUMEX.

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New book: Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene

28.10.2020 17:00

Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors – including six researchers from the University of Lapland – this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge.

The cost saved by the carbon kept in the permafrost would cover the cost of doing geoengineering

15.5.2020 12:00

The cost saved by the carbon kept in the permafrost alone would easily cover the cost of doing geoengineering by stratospheric aerosol injection, shows new research from Finnish and Chinese researchers, published in Nature Communications.

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Bruce Forbes to coordinate a major international project

27.4.2020 13:15

Advancing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities. This is the aim for CHARTER, a new EU Horizon 2020 funded project, coordinated by Professor Bruce Forbes of Arctic Centre. The European Commission has just signed the papers and work can begin.

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Not only temperature controls the nutrient cycle in the Arctic

15.4.2020 11:42

Researchers from Umeå University, Germany and Finland discover novel mechanism clarifying the slow nutrient cycling in Arctic soils. Absence of earthworms can explain why Arctic plants are starving for nitrogen. The study was published 14.4.2020 in the prestigious Nature Communications.