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Name | Urban Wråkberg |
Academic title(s) | PhD, M.Sc.Met.E. |
Institute | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Department | Dep. of Tourism Research and Northern Studies |
Function | Professor |
Address | Campus Kirkenes, PO Box 107 |
Zip code | 9915 |
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Short biography | Urban Wråkberg is professor of Northern Studies and leader of the research group in this multidisciplinary field of study at the Arctic University of Norway. He has published in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Russian on the geo-economic drivers of industry and science in both polar regions, on the history and ideology of polar exploration and on the nexus between scientific and indigenous knowledge-formation. This research has included fieldwork in Svalbard and East Greenland. In the Scandinavian-Russian borderland of Subarctic Europe Wråkberg’s research has mainly focused issues of cultural heritage and the sustainability of tourism; the latter put into comparative perspective by research on the south Baltic Sea region and in Central Europe. |
Recent publications | (selection) Urban Wråkberg, “A Nordic state-industry governance system goes north: Oil and gas extraction in the Barents Sea” in: Carina Keskitalo, ed., Regional Dynamics: The Old North in a Changing World (forthcoming, Routledge). |
Role in Tensions of Europe | |
Research interests | Security, Energy, Governance, Environment, Knowledge Networks, Financial Crises |
Additional research interests | cross-border issues, tourism |