an interdisciplinary training and education program of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, focusing on sustainability in times of rapid change.  The Resilience and Adaptation Program prepares scholars, policy-makers, community leaders, and managers to address issues of sustainability in an integrated fashion.

Through coursework, an internship experience, thesis research, and other training, students enrolled in PhD and masters programs address a major challenge facing humanity: Sustaining the desirable features of Earth's social-ecological systems at a time of rapid change.  

The concepts of resilience, adpatation, vulnerability, and transformation serve as unifying themes in research examining global-to-local interactions. 

The program prepares students for positions of leadership in academia, government, non-government organizations, Native organizations and agency management.

Alaska Natives and members of other minority groups are encouraged to apply.

ALL RAP Seminars take place from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in IARC 401 unless otherwise listed.  All seminars are followed by pizza and discussion.

November 18:  417 IARC  (Please note new date and place) La'ona De Wilde, Brian Young, Cindy Fabri, and Miranda Wright will give presentations about their internship experiences, followed by a discussion about how to make the most of an intership experience.

December 2:  Stian Stensland will speak on "Angling Tourism and Salmon Management in Norway. - The Role of Landowners and Private Fishing Rights".

December 9 at 9 am - Butrovich Board of Regents Room - Stacia Backensto will defend her thesis, "Common Ravens on Alaska's North Slope."

Weekly Rap for November 16, 2009  click here.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

RAP 1 graduate, Collin Beier (PhD Bio Sciences), recently published part of his dissertation research in Ecology and Society:  Citation:   Beier, C., A. L. Lovecraft, and T. Chapin. 2009. Growth and collapse of a resource system: an adaptive cycle of change in public lands governance and forest management in Alaska. Ecology and Society 14(2): 5. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art5/

Martin D. Robards, John J. Burns, Chanda L. Meek, Annette Watson have an article In Press in the Journal of Environmental Management entitled, " Limitations of an optimum sustainable population or potential biological removal approach for conserving marine mammals: Pacific walrus case study". Click here to download.

Book published:

Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship

Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World

Chapin, F. Stuart III.; Kofinas, Gary P.; Folke, Carl (Eds.)

This is the first textbook to take a resilience-based approach to the ecology and management of resources - it focuses on ecosystems’ ability to adapt to change.

Please click on the link below to access the publisher's website:

 http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental%2Bmanagement/book/978-0-387-73032-5

Email: rap.uaf@alaska.edu       Phone:  907-474-7987          PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK  99775-7000