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Project activities in Finland

Regional adaptation interests: 

Future tourism prospects of local communities

GIS-based flood risk management system

Participating communities:

City of Rovaniemi

Kolari and ski resort Ylläs

Kittilä and ski resort Levi

Demonstration projects:

1. Examine how strategic tourism planning in Finnish Lapland takes into account the issues of climate change by mapping the tourism products of Northern Finland from the viewpoint of their possibilities to adapt to drastic or slower changes of the operating environment and give guidance to tourism product developers.

2. A project that will involve preliminary flood risk assessment and flood risk maps for the rivers Kemijoki and Ounasjoki in Rovaniemi, and for Kittilä, flood risk management plans, visualisations for local people (maps, website, seminars and media), building codes and land use plans.

Regional lead partner:

The Lapland Regional Environment Centre, Rovaniemi

Other project partners

Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi Research Unit

Thule Institute at University of Oulu with links to the University of the Arctic (UArctic)

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki  

The Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi             

University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (see http://www.ulapland.fi/Clim-atic)

Associated partners:

City of Rovaniemi, Lapland

Regional Project funders:

Ministry of Environment
City of Rovaniemi
Municipality of Kolari
Municipality of Kittilä

Additional regional support group members:

to be confirmed

Regional project events and activities:

Launch meeting of Clim-ATIC subproject in Rovaniemi 29 08 2008

Regional project publications and media coverage:

lapin_kansa_3_9_08

Project coordinator: UHI Millennium Institute,  Perth College, Crieff Road, Perth, Scotland (UK), PH1 2NX
 Tel: (+)44 1738 877000 • Fax: (+)44 1738 877001 • Clive.bowman@perth.uhi.ac.uk
This project is part-financed by the European Union and the European Regional Development (ERDF)