| Joan Nymand Larsen |
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Outgoing president (ex-officio) Borgir, Nordurslod IS-600 Akureyri Iceland
Tel: +354 460 89 84 Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)
Joan Nymand Larsen is senior scientist with the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Iceland. She is also with the Social and Economic Development and Polar Law Program, University of Akureyri. She studied macroeconomics at University of Copenhagen, and received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manitoba, Canada, specializing in economic development and natural resource-based economies of the North. Her background includes many years of researching and publishing on the Arctic economy and quality-of-life in the North. Her research on northern economies and renewable and non-renewable resource extraction includes the impact of industrial development and global change processes for Northern regions and local and coastal communities. Current research focuses on the study and assessment of living conditions and quality-of-life across the circumpolar region, and the construction, measurement and testing of Arctic specific social indicators. She leads three international indicators and quality-of-life projects - Arctic Social Indicators (ASI - I and II) and AHDR-II (Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages. She was Project Manager and co-editor of the first Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR) launched in 2004. She is coordinating lead author of the Polar Regions chapter, for the 5th assessment report, WG-II, of the IPCC. She is member of the international steering committee of LOICZ – Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, and board member on the Arctic Futures Program with the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. Her editorial work includes, among others, Springer Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research and The Polar Journal. |
