Níels Einarsson
EXPERTS

Níels Einarsson

Director

Stefansson Arctic Institute
 / 
Akureyri
ne@svs.is

Field of activity

Climate and Environment

Education

  • Ph.D. Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Uppsala

Main interests

  • Climate and Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Fisheries
  • Social sciences
  • Sustainability
  • Stefanson Arctic Institute
  • Northern environmental anthropology
  • Circumpolar sustainability and human development issues
  • Social and environmental impacts of fishery management
  • Whale watching, whaling and changes in worldviews in Iceland
  • Resilience, social capital and dynamics in fishing communities
  • Arctic/North Atlantic marine mammal conservation controversies
  • Nature perceptions, ideologies and environmental groups
  • Social adaptation to climate change