Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar ‐ The Stefansson Arctic Institute, SAI (SAI)

Updated 2016-05-17

The Stefansson Arctic Institute is an Icelandic governmental (Ministry for the Environment) research institute with focus on the Arctic region, also involved in public dissemination of research, exhibits, and international collaboration on northern human dimension issues, social and cultural change and human development, economic development and interdisciplinary aspects of human‐environmental relations in the Circumpolar Arctic and Northern North Atlantic. The institute is involved in a range of research and information dissemination projects and programmes. The institute was responsible for leading and hosting the project secretariat and publishing the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR), the first comprehensive scientific assessment of human welfare, social development and cultural change in the circumpolar Arctic, and the follow-up projects Arctic Social Indicators (ASI-I, and ASI-II) 2006-2010. The Institute leads the work on the second AHDR (2010-2014); and follow-up work to the ASI projects includes the implementation of an Arctic Social Indicators monitoring system with a piloting of a monitoring system in the Inuvialuit region of Canada, North West Territories. The ASI indicators work is also being applied in community case studies on the Alaska North Slope Borough, as well as the North-Atlantic region, Yamal-Nenets, Sakha-Yakutia, and Nunavut. Main gaps: Not specified Network type: ‐ Thematic observations ‐ Community based observations

http://www.svs.is/english/index.htm

Status: Ongoing
Project time span: 1998 -
Data collection: 1998 -
Data processing: 1998 -
Data reporting: 1998 -

Contact information

Contact person: - -
Address: Níels Einarsson, Director
Email: si.svs@en

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Human media

Geography

Regions studied: Arctic, Circumpolar

Data availability

Data availability and access: https://www.rannis.is/

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.: Different fields /aspects of social science and economics, including key indicators on quality of life and human development in the Arctic (Arctic Social Indicators, ASI data), e.g. material wellbeing, education, health, fate control, cultural wellbeing, and closeness to nature.

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: No
Other institutes involved in the project: Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar ‐ The Stefansson Arctic Institute, SAI (SAI)
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?: Not specified Networks: International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) (LOICZ), The University of the Arctic (UArctic), North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO), Northern Research Forum (NRF)
Indigenous AND traditional knowledge used in this project: Yes