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Inspire Session

Session: Seed initiatives for change: how do transformational pathways emerge?

INS 17-9 - Arctic seeds to inspire positive scenarios

Thursday, August 18, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Location: 520A

Presenting Author(s)

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Marianne Falardeau, Dr.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Université Laval

Co-author(s)

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Marianne Falardeau, Dr.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Université Laval
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Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Dr.

Director Key Biodiversity Areas
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Canada
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Elena Bennett

Professor
McGill University, Canada

The Arctic is experiencing profound changes, from amplified climate change to socio-economic transformations. It is home to about four million people – many of whom are Indigenous – whose ways of life are intrinsically linked to ecosystems. In this context, scenarios can help community members and stakeholders co-design plausible, if deeply uncertain, paths forward to the future they want, focusing on levers of change available to communities. In this talk, we will present a seeds-based approach to developing bottom-up, positive, Arctic scenarios that (1) braid different ways of knowing; (2) foster agency; and (3) explore a vast and plausible range of futures.