
Second International Science and Policy Conference on:
Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach
to Management in the Arctic:
Integrating information at different scales in the framework of EA implementation

Where: Bergen, Norway
When: 25-27 June
Program: Download (24. June - final version)The Ecosystem Approach to Management (EA) is a widely adopted management principle that requires integrated management across sectors of human activities to achieve sustainable use of natural resources while maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem. The EA approach has been acknowledged, defined and adopted by the Arctic states working under the Arctic Council. In 2013 (Kiruna Declaration), the Arctic Council agreed that there was a need for periodic reviews of EA implementation in the Arctic to exchange information on integrated assessment and management experiences. A first international conference was held in Fairbanks, Alaska, in August 2016 to review status of EA implementation. A second Arctic EA conference will be held in Bergen, Norway, in early summer 2019.
Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) have been recognized as appropriate scale and units to apply the EA to management of the Arctic marine and coastal environment, with due recognition of their open boundaries and the need to integrate information and management across different scales within and beyond an LME. The second conference to review EA implementation in the Arctic will focus on the scale integration issue. Scale integration in the context of EA implementation applies equally to the natural and social sciences that provide the knowledge base for decisions (e.g. through Integrated Ecosystem Assessment), and the management structures and processes where management decisions are made. Local and Traditional Knowledge (LTK) provides equally important information and insight about scale integration, EA implementation and management. LTK will be an element of all topics and discussions during the Conference.
Program with abstracts and links to presentations.
Presentations:
Opening session: Conference opening
- Geir Huse (Norway, Scientific Director, Institute of Marine Research)
- Anne-Christine Brusendorff (Denmark, ICES)
- Mayor Harry K. Brower, Jr. (USA, Utqiagvik)
- Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
Session 1: Integrated Ecosystem Assessment
- Elena Eriksen (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Per Arneberg (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Andrea Niemi (Canada, Fisheries and Oceans)
- Tom Christensen (Denmark, Aarhus University)
- Sue Moore (USA, NOAA, retired; University of Washington)
- Judith Rosellon-Druker (USA, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
- Fern Wickson (Norway, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission)
- Per Arneberg (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Lisa Eisner (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
- Bérengère Husson (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Sue Moore (USA, NOAA, retired; University of Washington)
- Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Phillip Wallhead (Norway, Norwegian Institute for Water Research)
Session 2: MPA's and other special areas
- Lauren Wenzel (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
- Boris Solovyev (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Martine Giangioppi (Canada, World Wildlife Fund)
- Martin Sommerkorn (Norway, World Wildlife Fund)
- Boris Solovyev (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Elizabeth Logerwell (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
- Ole Anders Turi (Norway, Sámediggi/Sámi Parliament)
- Lis L. Jørgensen (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Wenting Chen (Norway, Norwegian Institute for Water Research)
- Gerold Janssen (Germany, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development)
- Sheku Sei (Sierra Leone, University of Sierra Leone)
- “Resource user perception evaluation for the establishment of Marine Protected Areas in Sierra Leone”
Session 3: Voices from the North - A conversation about people, nature and sustainability
- Fred Phillips and Mellisa Heflin (USA, Bering Sea Elders Group)
- Nicole Kanayurak (USA, Utqiagvik, North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management)
- Gerry Inglangasuk (Canada, Inuvialuit Member, Fisheries Joint Management Committee) and Alan Kennedy (Canada, Chairman, Fisheries Joint Management Committee)
- Andrea Niemi/Lianne Postma - TBC and Elizabeth Hiltz (Canada, Fisheries and Oceans)
Session 4: National EA Implementation
- Cecilie von Quillfeldt (Norway, Norwegian Polar Institute)
- Daniel Van Vliet (Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada)
- Elizabeth Logerwell (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
- Boris Solovyev (Russia, WWF Russia/Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Anders Mosbech (Denmark, Aarhus University)
- Bjarne Lyberth (Greenland, The Association of Fishers & Hunters in Greenland)
- Mandy Karnauskas (USA, NOAA Fisheries)
- Daniel Taukie (Canada, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.)
- Gunn-Britt Retter (Norway, Saami Council)
Session 5: Central Arctic Ocean
- Alf Håkon Hoel (Norway, University of Tromsø; presented by Hein Rune Skjoldal)
- Hein Rune Skjoldal (Norway, Institute of Marine Research)
- Vasily Spiridonov (Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Are Olsen (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research/Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen)