During the last 6 months, we have dived deeper into the CliCNord cases, and in all eight cases workshops, fieldwork and other activities are taking place.

The project has also had several media appearances, and a short movie about CliCNord is now available, which will introduce the project in just 2 minutes.

Finally, two CliCNord-related scientific articles have been published by CliCNord-affiliated researchers

For 3 days in April, the CliCNord team was gathered in Kalmar (Sweden), where we had some great discussions about how to progress. The days included a field visit to an area related to the two Swedish cases in CliCNord, which are about. 1) how wildfires under the changing climate conditions in the future will affect small remote communities in Sweden. Here we saw a burnt area near Finsjö (see pictures), and 2) how Sámi communities in Sweden will be affected by climate change, where we in this area looked at the lichens, which are the primary food resource for reindeer (see pictures).

Interested in the methodology we apply in the CliCNord Research Project? Then it is presented in short at our website now – see www.clicnord.org/about (click on Methodology or scroll down). In very short, the overall methodology approach in the CliCNord project is outlined in the CliCNord conceptual framework, which is a social science approach to place attachment, narratives, and social-historical context consisting of three layers, which all hold specific research questions, theories, and methodological approaches.

Hear several of the CliCNord researchers talking with Michael Booth from the Monocle in this special edition of The Foreign Desk about preparedness in the Nordic countries

CliCNord researcher Nina Baron was interviewed by Fyns Amts Avis, where she talked about climate change and the small islands in the South Funen Archipelago - for instance, the fact that there are no evacuation plans for flood events

Lennart Olsson, one of our CliCNord researchers, has together with colleagues from Lund University (Henrik Thorén and Johannes Persson) published a paper (A Pluralist Approach To Epistemic Dilemmas in Event Attribution Science) that is partly funded by the CliCNord project. It is a very interesting reading concerning the appropriate methodology for associating individual weather events with anthropogenic climate change. This is also a topic that is included in the conceptual approach in CliCNord, so the project team as a whole will contribute to this scientific field in the coming years.

Was the event caused by climate change and was it extreme? This is a discussion often raised in the aftermath of events, but what are the challenges in the approach we currently use to answer this question? This paper, partly funded by CliCNord, written among others by our CliCNord researchers from Lund University (Lennart Olsson and David Harnesk) makes an effort to deal with this tricky problem. This is also a topic that is included in the conceptual approach in CliCNord, so the project team as a whole will contribute to this scientific field in the coming years.

Documentarist Phie Ambo, who is to create a documentary about the CliCNord Research Project, joined the fieldwork on some small remote islands in the southern part of Denmark. The footage from this weekend is to start with to be used to create a small pilot to raise resources for the making of a full-length documentary that will include stories from several of the 8 very different cases in CliCNord.

Phie Ambo has directed a number of award-winning films for the cinema. In recent years Ambo has been especially interested in pursuing work of a more thematic nature, and this in the form of documentaries focusing on the relation between science and human existence.

Want to know the key elements of the CliCNord Research Project in just 2 min?

Then watch this short animation – and thereafter visit us at www.clicnord.org

A local Danish newspaper (Lolland-Falsters Folketidende A/S) covered the beginning of May one of the Danish cases in the CliCNord Research Project. In this case, we will study the resilience to climate change in the southern part of the island Falster. Many people in the area still remember the floods due to heavy rainfall in 2011. Now the CliCNord researcher (Mikkel Nedergaard) wants to know how the incident has affected local citizens and authorities to deal with a similar situation.

We presented the CliCNord project to the Interreg Europe Project “Together We Stand”

In the latest edition of a regional Faroese newspaper (Nordlysid – Eng: “the Northern Light”) you can find an article about CliCNord’s case in the Faroe Islands. In this case, we will study the resilience to climate change in two communities (Hvannasund and Viðareiði) in the northern islands.

The article is in Faroese, so in case that is a hard language for you, we can tell that beyond showing some pictures from the fieldwork that the article describes what the CliCNord researcher (Rico Kongsager) is investigating in the region and the CliCNord project in general.

This project has received funding from the NordForsk Nordic Societal Security Programme under Grant Agreement No. 97229