Cities in the Arctic encounter distinctive challenges when it comes to improving solid waste management, owing to their small population, remote and isolated locations, financial constraints, and extreme climatic conditions. This lecture will discuss solid waste management practices in northern Russian and Norwegian cities, highlighting prospects for addressing present and future challenges.
Speaker: Dr. Nadezhda Filimonova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School (USA).
The online event is supported by the Geography and Planning Students’ Society and the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta (Canada).
The lecture will be moderated by Dr. Jeff Birchall, School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta; Lead, UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience.
To register for the online (Zoom) session, please visit the Eventbrite website.