Author Archives: Snowchange

Snowchange Discussion Paper 9 documents the efforts of the Näätämö River Collaborative Management Project from May 2014 to September 2015. Sámi weather observations of northern climate change are included. Oil tanker adrift in the close-by fjord cause a major disaster … Continue reading →

A new Snowchange -related thesis, “Arctic Voices from the Frontlines of a Warming World: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in the Climate Change Discourse” by Eleanor R. M. Waters, from the University of Vienna is now available online. Arctic ice … Continue reading →

Summer is slowly behind us. One of the coldest summers here in Finland did not prevent community work in Selkie, Näätämö watershed, and other regions. This September Snowchange participates with a large delegation to the international ELOKA Workshop to be … Continue reading →

Snowchange Co-op long-term partner, Tapestry Institute has released a major new document discussing Indigenist Knowledge. Ceremony at a Boundary Fire: A Story of Indigenist Knowledge documents a meeting of Indigenous leaders and Western scholars that took place in the winter … Continue reading →

Snowchange releases a new discussion paper on the traditional lamprey fishermen of Latvia. The Snowchange Cooperative represents the Puruvesi lake fishermen and the vendace (European Cisco) fish domestically. In December 2013 the European Union gave the fish and the traditional … Continue reading →

Beate Stormo, a Steering Committee member of Snowchange Co-op from the community of Kristnes, Iceland, is on a visit to Finland. First she will attend, and hopefully win, the Nordic Forging Black Smith Competition in Fiskars, Finland. Later in the … Continue reading →

A new Snowchange Discussion Paper, number 7, has been released. It is available here. Snowchange Discussion Paper #7: Weather Change Observations of the Puruvesi Winter Seiners 1996-2015 by Tero Mustonen and the Members of the Kesälahti Fish Base describes climate issues in … Continue reading →

BBC, Financial Times and the Guardian as well as the China Dialogue write about the Climate Change: Risk Assessment report that was released yesterday. Snowchange Co-op wrote the Arctic part of the report and participated in the workshops to produce … Continue reading →

Over the past year, Snowchange Co-op has participated in a major new “Climate Change: Risk Assessment”. We contributed the Arctic and Indigenous materials and participated in the write-up and workshops leading to the launch of the report today. The main … Continue reading →

Snowchange and the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism release a small working report on the Finnish reindeer pastures, especially the Sámi situation. It is available here.