The NVP Summer School 2015Arctic Ocean Governance as a

Multifunctional Challenge Introduction to the summer school – Lectures and Expected student work

Lasse H. PetterssonNansen Center, Bergen, Norway

Summer school “activities ”• Frame setting presentations and lectures• Student poster presentations• Group work and interactive session

– Your experience– Formulations of questions– Discussions and “answers” to questions– Writing synthesis– External resources and information – Report/Paper preparation and presentation – additional sources

• Plenary discussions

Research topics and Thematic Groups

1. The Arctic environment – Climate change, (resources) and sea ice…

2. Natural resources (can be included in #1)

3. The regulatory framework4. Governance – national and international5. National, international and stakeholders

interests

Group Tasks• Discuss the role and importance of each given

topic wrt. “Arctic governance”

• Formulate questions and cardinal requirements/conditions to each lecture

• Discussion and clarifications of these questions with the lecturers

• Collect notes for writing sessions from Thursday onward

Outcome

• A joint report (draft publication) addressing the role of each topic and the cross- and inter-disciplinary linkages

Methodology 1/2

• Background; – Own experiences;

• Poster presentations and discussions

– Presentations given (so far)– Identify group moderators and rapporteurs

Methodology

Group # 1 + 2

The Arctic environment• xx

Natural resources• xx

Group # 3 + 4

The regulatory framework• xx

Governance• xx

Group # 5

Stakeholders and Nations• xx

Poster session

Linling

Report writing groups

Introduction• xx

Natural Resources

The Arctic Environment• xx

Governance

Legal Framework and Laws

Stakeholders and nations

* integrators