Ansættelser siden 1978 /Work experience since 1978 · 1993/94 - Some Consequences of 2 Decades of Income Policy - published in: Lise Lyck (ed): Socio-economic Developments in Greenland

BIRGER POPPEL CURRICULUM VITAE

Navn/Name: Birger Poppel Fødselsdato/Date of Birth: 25. maj 1950/May 25th, 1950 Statsborgerskab/Citizenship: Dansk/Danish Ansættelsessted/Place of Employment: Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland Uddannelse/Education: Cand.polit. /M.A. (economics) 1978, University of

Copenhagen Aktuel beskæftigelse/Occupation: Projektchef, SLiCA/Project Chief, SLiCA Arbejdsadresse/Address (work): Box 1061, 3905 Nuussuaq, Greenland Privatadresse/Address (private): Box 5199, Kigutaarnat 80, 3905 Nuussuaq, Greenland E-mail: [email protected] Civilstand/Marital status: Gift med/Married to Mariekathrine Poppel Børn/Children: Ursula (37 år/years) and Upaluk (36 år/years)

Ansættelser siden 1978 /Work experience since 1978 2016- Projektchef/Project Chief emeritus, Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA,

Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland; 2004-16: Projektchef/Project Chief, Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA,

Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland; 1989-04: Chief Statistician, the Greenland Home Rule Government; 1992-96: Chief Statistician and Data Processing Manager, the Greenland Home Rule Government; 1988-89: Department of Economic Affairs, division for economic planning; 1987-88: Department of Housing, Technology and Environment; 1984-86: Advisor/Consultant for the Greenland Home Rule Government, Department of Social

Affairs; 1980-84: Advisor/Consultant for SL (Socialpædagogernes Landsforbund: the union of social

workers dealing with physically and mentally disabled); 1978-80: Principal in the administration of the Municipality of Copenhagen;

mailto:[email protected]

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Birger Poppel – CV – September 2016

Indholdsfortegnelse/List of contents:

Page 3: Publikationsliste/List of publications (peer reviewed) – 1995 - present

Page 9: Samarbejder, tillidshverv, forskningsrelationer/Synergistic activities, honorary offices, positions of trust, research affiliations, etc.

Page 12: Formidlingsaktiviteter (I)/Outreach activities (I): Public lectures, presentations & lectures in national and international meetings/ gatherings

Page 16: Formidlingsaktiviteter (II)/Outreach activities (II): Dissemination of research results to a broader audience via Greenlandic newspapers

Page 18: Deltagelse i internationale forskningskonferencer, seminarer og workshops/ Papers & guest lectures presented at international research conferences, seminars & workshops

(undervisning & vejledning mangler/teaching & supervision not included)

(konsulentopgaver mangler/consulting not included)

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List of peer reviewed publications: Books and Articles

Books edited:

Petersen, H. and Poppel, B. (Eds.). (1999). Dependency, Autonomy and Sustainability in the Arctic

Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Group. (392 pages). Poppel, B. and Csonka, Y. (Eds.). (2011). Arctic Social Sciences – Prospects for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 Era and Beyond. Topics in Arctic Social Sciences, volume 6, 2011. International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland. Nuuk Greenland. (170 pages). Poppel, B. (Ed.) (2015). SLiCA: Arctic living conditions. Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Sami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula. TemaNord 2015:501. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. (426 pages). DOI:10.6027/TN2015-501

Articles (peer reviewed)

The Collection, Processing and Communication of Data in Greenland

(co-writer: Keun Hwang, Danish Bureau of Statistics) - published in: The Internationalization Process and the Arctic - Proceedings from Nordic Arctic Research Forum Symposium 1994. 1995, Peter Friis (ed). Informationsteknologien i statistikkens tjeneste dataindsamling, -bearbejdning og -formidling i Grønland status og vision, May 1996 - Essay published in the Final Report from the IT-working group of the Greenland Home Rule Government, 1997. IT og Uddannelse In: Informationsteknologi og Uddannelse i Grønland - Indlæg på INUTEK’s Minikonference om informationsteknologi og uddannelse den 10. februar 1996 i Nuuk. Nuuk, maj 1996. The Distribution of Income and Changes in the Purchasing Power in Greenland from 1979 to 1993/94 - Some Consequences of 2 Decades of Income Policy - published in: Lise Lyck (ed): Socio-economic Developments in Greenland and in other Small Nordic Jurisdictions, 1997. Greenland’s Road to Recovery and the Pattern of Settlement In: North, The Nordic Journal of Regional Development and Territorial Policy, Vol. 8, 1997, No.2, pp. 11-18.

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Fiskeres og fangeres levevilkår. Signalement af en fisker/fanger og en fisker-/fangerhusholdning (co-writer: Thomas Andersen) - published in: Kalaalimernit, INUSSUK - Arktisk forskningsjournal vol. 1, 1997, pp. 41-56. Udredning om forsknings- og udviklingsaktiviteter i og om Grønland, Published in: Forskningsaktiviteter på Færøerne og Grønland - Forskningssamarbejde i Vestnorden. (“A Statement on Research and Development Activities in and on Greenland”) Tema 1997:610, Nordisk Ministerråd, 1997, pp. 79-204.

Economic Conditions and Migration in Greenland - A Preliminary Study on Migration to and from Greenlandic Settlements 1988-1995. In: Proceedings from Nordic Arctic Research Forum Symposium. 1998.

Den grønlandske økonomi – nogle hovedtræk i udviklingen siden Hjemmestyrets indførelse (“The Greenlandic Economy – Main Features in the Development since the Introduction of Home Rule). In: Samfundsøkonomen, December 1998:8, pp. 5-12.

Befolkningseksplosionen - Sundhedsforhold omkring 1959 og siden. In: Gyldendals Håndbog om Grønland, Copenhagen 1999, pp.267-276.

Measuring Ways of Living and Living Conditions of Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic – The Greenland Inuit as an example (co-writers: Thomas Andersen, Per Lyster) September 2000: Montreux, Switzerland: IAOS (International Association of Official Statistics) – conference: Paper. www.statistik.admin.ch/about/international/03iaos_det07.htm Essay on SLICA. In: Arctic – Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America, Vol. 55, No. 3, 2002, University of Calgary. (co-writers: Thomas Andersen, Jack Kruse)

Andersen, T. and Poppel, B. (2002). Living Conditions in the Arctic. In:

Michael R. Hagerty, Vogel, J. and Møller,V. ed. (2002): Assessing Quality of Life and Living Conditions to Guide National Policy. The State of the Art. Social Indicators Research Series, Vol. 11. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 193-216. (Reprinted from: Social Indicator Research 58, Nos. 1-3 (June 2002)).

Alcohol and Drug Use Among Students in Greenland – A preliminary Comparison between the 1999 and 2003 ESPAD Data. In: Proceedings from the 12th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, ICCH/Nuna Med. 2003. Birthplace criteria (with Marianne Stenbæk). In: Mark Nuttall, ed. (2005): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Vol. 1. New York/London: Routledge, pp. 261-262.

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G-50. In: Mark Nuttall, ed. (2005): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Vol. 2. New York/London: Routledge, pp. 697-698. G-60. In Mark Nuttall, ed. (2005): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Vol. 2. New York/London: Routledge, pp. 698-700. Human Dimensions: Research programs. (with Marianne Stenbæk). In Mark Nuttall, ed. (2005): Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Vol. 2. New York/London: Routledge, pp. 887-892. The Hunting and Fishing Society in Greenland. In: Ludger Müller-Wille, Kingsley, M., and Stach Nielsen, S. eds. (2005): Socio-economic Research on Management Systems of Living Resources. INUSSUK - Arctic Research Journal 1, 2005, pp. 139-143. The socio-economic challenges in Greenland. In: Ludger Müller-Wille, Kingsley, M., and Stach Nielsen, S. eds. (2005): Socio-economic Research on Management Systems of Living Resources. INUSSUK – Arctic Research Journal 1, 2005, pp. 87-100. (co-writers: Rasmus Ole Rasmussen and Gorm Winther) Social Sciences and Humanities in the International Polar Year 2007-2008: An Integrating Mission. In: ARCTIC, Vol.58, no. 1, March 2005. (co-writers: Igor Krupnik, Michael Bravo, Yvon Csonka, Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, Ludger Müller-Wille, Peter Schweitzer, and Sverker Sörlin) Grønland 2005 – 26 års Hjemmestyre, status og aktuelle udfordringer [Greenland 2005 – 26 Years of Home Rule Government, State of Affairs and Current Challenges]. In: Geografisk Orientering, Tidsskrift for Geografforbundet, 35. årgang vol. 6, November 2005, pp. 280-286. Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse, SLiCA – et komparativt og transnationalt projekt: [The Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA – a Comparative and Transnational Project] In: Hanne Petersen (ed.) Grønland i verdenssamfundet (2006), pp. 259-277. Interdependency of subsistence and market economies in the Arctic: In: Solveig Glomsråd and Iulie Aslaksen (eds.). The Economy of the North. Statistisk Sentralbyrå/Statistics Norway (2006), pp. 65-80. Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: SLiCA Results. Anchorage: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. (2007), 666 pages. (co-writers: Jack Kruse, Gérard Duhaime, Larissa Abryutina).

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Poppel, B. (2007). Nogle forskelle mellem levevilkår i byer og bygder – og input til en diskussion om bygdernes fremtid [Some differences between living conditions in towns and settlements – and input to the discussion about the future of the settlements]. In: Samfundsøkonomen (2007). Copenhagen, pp. 19-24. Poppel, B. (2008). Er subsistensaktiviteter i Arktis en del af den markedsøkonomiske virkelighed eller er markedsøkonomien en del af en subsistensbaseret blandingsøkonomi? [Are subsistence activities in the Arctic part of the market economic reality or - is the market economy a part of a subsistence based mixed economy?] In: Grønlandsk Kultur og Samfundsforskning 2006-07. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat. Nuuk, pp. 217-232. Poppel, B., Andersen, T. and Lyster, P. (2008). Measuring Ways of Life and Living Conditions of the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic. In: Mikaela Engell og Jørgen S. Søndergaard (editors). Menneskesjæl. Festskrift til Finn Lynge. Nuuk, pp. 97-117. Kruse, J., Poppel, B., Abryutina, L., Duhaime, G., Martin, S., Poppel, M., Kruse, M., Ward, E., Cochran, P. and Hanna, V. (2008). A Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic. In: Valerie Møller et al. (red.) Barometers of Quality of Life around the GlobeSocial. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. pp. 107-134. Andersen, T. and Poppel, B. (2008) Living Conditions in the Arctic. In: Indicators Relevant to Indigenous Peoples, A Resource Book. Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education) Philippines, pp. 273-293. Poppel, B. and Kruse, J. (2009). The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic – an analysis based on Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA). In: Valerie Møller and Dennis Huscka (editors): Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge: Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research. Social Indicators Research Series. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. pp. 27-43. Aslaksen, I., Dallmann, W., Holen, D. L., Høydahl, E., Kruse, J., Poppel, B., Mary Stappleton and Ellen Inga Turi (2009). Interdependency of subsistence and market economies in the Arctic. In: Solveig Glomsråd and Iulie Aslaksen (eds.) The Economy of the North 2008. Statistisk Sentralbyrå/Statistics Norway. pp. 75-98. Hamilton, L., Bjerregaard, P. and Poppel, B. (2010). Health and Population In: Joan Nymand Larsen et al. (eds.): Arctic Social Indicators – A follow-up to the Arctic Human Development Report. TemaNord 2010:519. Nordic Council of Ministers. pp. 29-45. Poppel, B. (2010). Some data sources on people, peoples, communities, regions and human activities in Greenland. In: Gorm Winther (ed): The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development. Vol. 1. TemaNord 2010:521. Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 287-320.

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Poppel, B. (2010). Are subsistence activities in the Arctic a part of the reality of the market economy, or is the market economy a part of a subsistence based mixed economy? In: Cultural and Social Research in Greenland – selected essays 1992-2010. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat. pp. 349-365. Mikkelsen, E. and Hoel, A. H. (lead authors). Hacquebord, L., Poppel, B. and Larsen, J.N. (contributing authors). Social, Economic, and Institutional State of the Circum-Arctic Coast In: Forbes, D.L. (editor). 2011. State of the Arctic Coast 2010 – Scientific Review and Outlook. International Arctic Science Committee, Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, International Permafrost Association. Helmholtz- Zentrum, Geesthacht, Germany, 178 p. http://arcticcoasts.org, pp. 57-78 (Box pp. 65-66). Hovelsrud, G., Poppel, B., van Oort, B. and Reist, J. (2011). Arctic societies, cultures and peoples in a changing cryosphere. AMBIO (2011): Volume 40, Issue 1: 100-110. Hovelsrud, G., Poppel, B., van Oort, B. and Reist, J. (2011) Arctic societies, cultures and peoples in a changing cryosphere. In: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Norway. 103 pages. Poppel, B. (ed.) (2011). Arctic living conditions. Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic. Major SLiCA findings presented to the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting. 6 pages. Nuuk. Eliassen, B-M, Melhus, M., Kruse, J., Poppel, B. & Broderstad, A.R. (2012). Design and Methods in a Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic – the SLiCA study. In: International Journal of Circumpolar Health 2012, 71: 17229 – DOI: 103402/IJCH.v71i0.17229. 19 pages. Poppel, B. and Jensen, C. O. (2013). SLiCA tables: http://www.uni.gl/da-dk/forskning/projekter/slica/tabeloversigtslica.aspx Poppel, B. (2014). Birger Poppel: A Pioneer in Greenlandic and Arctic Quality of Life Research.

Applied Research in Quality of Life (2014). DOI 10.1007/s11482-013-9294-y. Poppel, B. (2014). SLiCA, Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic. In: Michalos, A. C. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp 5993-6003. ISBN: 978-94-007-0752-8. Poppel, B. (2014). Subsistence in the Arctic. In: Michalos, A. C. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp 6464-6466. ISBN: 978-94-007-0752-8. Poppel, B. (2014). Mining in Greenland – Current State and Plans for the Future. In: Heininen, L. (Ed.) Arctic Yearbook 2014. http://www.arcticyearbook.com

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Poppel, B. (2015). Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic. In. Glatzer, W., Camfield, L., Møller, V., Rojas, M. (Eds.). Global Handbook of Quality of Life - Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. pp. 715-747. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6

Rautio, A., Poppel, B. and Young, K. (2015). Human Health and Well being. In: Larsen, J. N. and Fondahl, G. (Eds.). Arctic Human Development Report II. TemaNord 2014:567. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp 315-367. DOI:10.6027/TN2014-567

Poppel, B. (2015). Inuit Nunaat – The Inuit World: Measuring living conditions & subjective wellbeing – monitoring human development using the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) to augment ASI for the Inuit World. In: Larsen, J. N., Schweitzer, P., Petrov, A., Fondahl, G. (Eds.), Arctic Social Indicators II - Implementation. TemaNord 2014:568. Nordic Council of Ministers. Copenhagen. pp. 223-276. DOI:10.6027/TN2014-568

Poppel, B. (2015). Introduction to SLiCA – Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula – From Reseach Question to Knowledge: Why? What? How? & Some main Results. In: Poppel, B. (Ed.), SLiCA: Arctic Living Conditions. Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Sami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula. TemaNord 2015:501. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 23-86. DOI: 10.6027/TN2015-501

Poppel, B. (2016). Les défis économiques du Groenland (The Economic challenges of Greenland). In: Masson-Delmotte, V., Gauthier, É., Gremillet, D., Huctin, J.-M. and Swingedouw, D. (Eds.): Greenland Unveiled. CNRS Éditions. pp yyy-zzz.

Poppel, B. (forthcoming). History of Well-being in the Arctic. In. Estes, R. & Sirgy J. (Eds.). The Pursuit of Well-Being: The Untold Global History. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. pp. xx-yy. DOI Poppel, B. (forthcoming). Arctic The Arctic as a ’hotspot’ in a natural resource boom: In: Iulie Aslaksen and Solveig Glomsråd (eds.). The Economy of the North III. Statistisk Sentralbyrå/Statistics Norway.

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Synergistic activities, honorary offices, positions of trust, research affiliations, etc. (to be updated)

1993 - 2004: examiner at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland.

January 1994 - May 1995: member of a working group analyzing the Greenland vocational training system appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

1994 - 2000: member of The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland (KVUG) appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

1995 - 1996: member of the national Information Technology Working Group appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

1996 - 2004: Working group/steering committee member in the interim steering board of Ilimmarfik (the center for research, education and documentation).

1997, March: co-organizer of the 6th Nordic Arctic Research Forum in Nuuk, with Professor Hanne Petersen, Ilisimatusarfik.

1997 - : Project Chief of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA & International research team coordinator.

1997 - 2004: member of the Greenland Health Research Board appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

1997 - 1998: member of an expert-group developing an Arctic Social Science Plan - invited by Arctic Consortium of the United States, ARCUS.

1997 - 1998: member of an expert-group (Nordic Council of Ministers) developing a Nordic Arctic Science Plan: NARP.

1998: Co-organizer of the 11th Inuit Studies Conference in Nuuk.

1999 & 2000: Representative at the annual meetings of the Nordic chief statisticians on behalf of the Nordic Home Rule Governments (Åland, The Faeroe Islands and Greenland).

2000 - 2004: vice chairman of the interim steering board of the center, Ilimmarfik.

2000 - 2004: member of new The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland (KVUG) appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

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2000 - 2011: Affiliated with the Sustainable Development Working Group, SDWG of the Arctic Council, AC as the Project Chief of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA

2001 – 2003: chairman of the corps of examiners at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland.

2001, April: Organizer of the Conference on Living Conditions Research in Nuuk (funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers).

2001-2002: member of the IPSSAS-network (International PhD School for the Study of Arctic Societies).

2001, May - 2014: elected member of the board of IASSA, International Arctic Social Sciences Association.

2002 - 2009: member of The Greenland Home Rule Government Research Fund.

2004 - 2005: Ilimmarfik delegate at the annual ARCUS-meeting (Arctic Consortium of the United States).

2004-2008: deputy member of The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland appointed by the Greenland Home Rule Government.

2004 - 2005: ICARP II Working Group member in WG02: Indigenous Peoples and Change in the Arctic: Adaptation, Adjustment and Empowerment.

2004 - 2008: Vice-president of IASSA, International Arctic Social Sciences Association.

2004: Reviewer for National Science Foundations, NSF the field of Arctic social science.

2004 - : Member of the Editorial Board, Social Indicator Research, SIR (An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of Life Measurement).

2004 - 2009: Member of the National, Greenland and Danish International Polar Year (IPY) Committees.

2005 - 2009: Chairman of the National Greenland International Polar Year (IPY) Committee.

2005, April 28-May 2: Convener of a Research seminar and workshop in Ilulissat, Greenland (funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers & the Greenland Home Rule Government): Nordic research cooperation within the social sciences and humanities connected to the International Polar Year, IPY 2007-2008.

2005 - 2008: Member of the Steering Committee of ECONOR (The Economy of the North project).

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2006 - 2010: Member of the IPY Data Sub Committee.

2006 - 2010: Member of the Arctic Social Indicator/ASI Working Group.

2006 - : Co-project leader of the research project, Understanding Migration in the Circumpolar North, UMCN.

2008 - 2012: Member of the board of Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland.

2008, August 22-26: Convener of ICASS VI, International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences.

2009, January 17-18: Co-convener, Public IPY mini seminar, Ilisimatusarfik/Ilimmarfik.

2009, May-2011: Member of the SWIPA-IT (Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic Integration Team (representing the social sciences).

2010: Member of the Scientific Committee of ‘The Arctic as a Messenger for Global Processes – Climate Change and Pollution’. Conference at University of Copenhagen, May 4-6, 2011.

2011, September 24-26: Co-convener of the Arctic Dialogue – Greenland Conference & Workshop focusing on the emerging oil and gas sector in Greenland.

2012, September 21-22: Co-convener of the Icelandic Greenlandic Arctic Science Days. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk, September 21-22.

2012 - 2014: Field editor Encyclopaedia for Quality of Life Research. Editor: Alex Michalos. Publisher: Springer Verlag.

2012-13: Member of the PhD-review board for Kåre Hendriksen: Grønlands bygder - økonomi og udviklingsdynamik

censor: University of Copenhagen/KU, Danish Technical University/DTU, Niuernermik Ilinniarfik/NI

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Outreach activities (I): (to be updated) Public lectures, presentations & lectures in national and international meetings/ gatherings

May 1996: Nuuk, Greenland INUTEK Conference on Information technology and Education. Paper: Informationsteknologi og Uddannelse i Grønland.

June, 1998: Kirkenes, Norway - Seminar on Co-operation Projects on Education and Small/medium sized Enterprises between Russia, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Greenland, Canada and USA: Paper: Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka

August, 2002: Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec: 9th General Assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Paper:

February, 2003: Thorshavn, Faeroe Islands: Participation in a public seminar: Statistik der kræves, for at kunne belyse Velfærd, Ligestilling og Arbejdsmarked.

October 2003: InuTek – offentligt foredrag i Katuaq under temaet: Sociale forandringer i storbyen: Urbanisering – karakteristika og konsekvenser i Grønland - i hvilken udstrækning kan statistik og samfundsforskning nu og på lidt længere sigt belyse disse forhold.

March 1, 2007: Nordic IPY launch, Copenhagen: Levevilkår i Arktis [Living Conditions in the Arctic]

April 10-11, 2007: Arctic Council, Sustainable Development Working Group meeting in Tromsø/Norway: SLiCA Results presentation.

April 12-13, 2007: Arctic Council, Senior Arctic Officials meeting in Tromsø/Norway: SLiCA Results presentation.

June 1, 2007: Standing Committee of the Arctic Council – meeting in Reykjavik: Motivation for the Study and SLiCA Results presentation.

Poppel, Birger. (2007): Det Internationale Polarår (IPY 2007–2008) – et grønlandsk (og dansk) perspektiv. Presentation to Minister of the Environments Connie Hedegaard and the standing committee of the Danish Parliament for the Environments and Planning.

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Poppel, Birger. (2007): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, August 23-September 6:

o Grønlands politiske udvikling – specielt i tiden efter anden verdenskrig o Hvorfor vælger mennesker at bosætte sig og blive boende i et ofte barskt klima og

ugæstfrit miljø? Grønlændernes levevilkår og nogle årsager til deres bosætning – resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse, SLiCA

o Why do people settle and stay under often harsh climatic and unfriendly environmental conditions? Results from a Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic?

o Det Internationale Polarår (IPY 2007–2008)) – et grønlandsk (og dansk perspektiv) o IPY from a Greenlandic (and Danish) perspective

Poppel, Birger. 2008. Living Conditions of Children and Youth in Greenland – a sketch of a youth profile. World Winter Cities Association for Mayors (WWCAM) – Mayors’ Conference in Nuuk. January 18-19.

Poppel, Birger. (2008): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, May 23-June 6: o Grønlands politiske udvikling – specielt i tiden efter anden verdenskrig o The political development In Greenland – with a focus on the post WWII period o Hvorfor vælger mennesker at bosætte sig og blive boende i et ofte barskt klima og


o Why do people settle and stay under often harsh climatic and unfriendly environmental conditions? Living conditions of Greenlanders (and other Inuit) and some findings about settling down and staying? - Results from the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic

o Det Internationale Polarår (IPY 2007–2008)) – et grønlandsk (og dansk) perspektiv

2009, January 17-18: convener of Public IPY mini seminar, Ilisimatusarfik/Ilimmarfik

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Hvor tilfredse er vi i Grønland? Resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsunder-søgelse, SLiCA. Offentligt foredrag på Ilimmarfik i miniseminar: ‘Mød IPY-forskerne i Ilimmarfik’. January 18.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Hvor tilfredse er vi i Grønland? Resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsunder-søgelse, SLiCA. Foredrag i Rotary/Nuuk. February 17.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Præsentation af resultater fra den grønlandske del af SLiCA-undersøgelsen 2004-06. Foredrag i Paarisa/Dept. for Sundhed/Health. March 3.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Living Conditions in Greenland (and among Inuit in Alaska, Canada and Chukotka) with a special focus on civic activities, attitudes to public policies, media and satisfaction with different aspects of life). Lecture for Nordic Media Program (NMP): Nuuk. April 21.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Living conditions in Greenland and among Inuit in Alaska, Canada and Chukotka. Presentation for students’ group from Nunavut and Nunavik. May 5.

Det 4. internationale Polarår, IPY 2007-2008 - var det umagen værd? - et grønlandsk perspektiv. Offentligt foredrag i Katuaq, 12. maj 2009.

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Poppel, Birger. 2009. A Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA: Inuit Sámi and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka Data and concepts. Presentation to Kim Swanzey, lead for social study (ALCOA), Environmental Resources Management (ERM). Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk. June 24.

Poppel, Birger. (2009): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, July 8-16:

o Grønlands politiske udvikling – specielt i tiden efter anden verdenskrig o The political development In Greenland – with a focus on the post WWII period o Hvorfor vælger mennesker at bosætte sig og blive boende i et ofte barskt klima og


o Tre fortællinger om samfunds organisering og forandring i Grønland (co-author: MarieKathrine Poppel)

Poppel, Birger. (2010): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, September 4-23:

o Introduktion til Grønlands politiske udvikling: fra koloni til selvstyre. Aktuelle udfordringer

o Greenland – the road to self-governance and beyond…? On Greenland’s road from a colony and today’s challenges.

o Grønland – levevilkår og tilfredshed med livet. Resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse, SLiCA

o Grønland før og nu. Det traditionelle og det moderne Grønland. o Grønland – konsekvenser af klimaændringer: er der både vindere og tabere?

Poppel, Birger. 2011. Levevilkår i Arktis – hvad er vigtigt for de oprindelige folk i Arktis og hvad bekymrer? Offentligt møde under Arktisk Råds Ministermøde, Nuuk, May 11.

Poppel, Birger. (2011): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, July 3-23:

o Grønland før og nu. Det traditionelle og det moderne Grønland. o Grønlands vej til selvstyre og selvstændighed (?) – udfordringer nu og i fremtiden. o Greenland – the road to self-governance and beyond: actual and future challenges. o Grønland – Livet i byer og bygder - hvor tilfredse er grønlænderne med deres liv? -

resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse. o Grønland – konsekvenser af klimaændringer: er der både vindere og tabere? o Klimaændringer i Grønland – konsekvenser for mennesker og samfund før og nu. o Impacts on Arctic societies, cultures and peoples when snow, water, ice and

permafrost change.

Poppel, Birger. (2012): Guest lecturer on the cruise ship Fram, June 6-24:

o Grønland – før og nu: fra det traditionelle til det moderne Grønland. Om Grønlands vej til selvstyre og aktuelle udfordringerne i en globaliseret verden.

o Livet i bygder og byer. Hvor tilfredse er grønlænderne med deres liv? – belyst ved resultater fra Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse (SLiCA)

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o Grönland auf dem Weg zur Selbstverwaltung/Selbstständigkeit und die aktuellen Herausforderungen.

o On Greenland’s road to self-governance and today’s challenges. o The Greenlandic Settlement Structure. Living conditions. Who moves, who stays and

why? - What can we learn from the Arctic Living Conditions Survey, SLiCA?

Poppel, Birger. 2012. Arktiske samfund, kulturer og folk i en kryosfære under forandring (kapitel 10 fra SWIPA rapporten). Klimasession i forbindelse med indgåelse af klimaaftale . [Arctic societies, cultures and peoples in a changing cryosphere (chapter 10, SWIPA Report). Session on Climate on the occasion of the signing of a climate agreement]. Ilimmarfik, Nuuk, May 11.


Fortællinger om samfundsorganisering og –forandring. Grønland før, nu og …

Grønland – før og nu: fra det traditionelle til det moderne Grønland. Om Grønlands vej til selvstyre og aktuelle udfordringerne i en globaliseret verden.

Grønland siden 2. Verdenskrig - Fra koloni til hjemmestyre, selvstyre og … ?

Grönland - der Weg zur Selbstverwaltung und die weiteren Zukunftsaussichten

Impacts on Arctic societies, cultures and people when snow, water, ice and permafrost change

Greenland – the road to self-governance and beyond.

Poppel, Birger. 2015. Bosætning: Bygder – og Arktiske Levevilkår, SLiCA. Præsentation i forbindelse med møde for de nordiske samarbejdsministre i Ilimanaq 10. marts 2015. [Settlement structure: Settlements – and Arctic Living Conditions, SLiCA. Presentation to the Nordic Ministers on Nordic cooperation in Ilimanaq, March 10, 2015]

Poppel, Birger. 2015. Levevilkår i Arktis – hvad er vigtigt for de oprindelige folk i Arktis og hvad bekymrer. Endelig afrapportering af SLiCA-projektet i forhold til de nordiske samarbejdsministre og præsentation af bogen ’SLiCA: Arctic living conditions. Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Sami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula’ i forbindelse med møde NSK MR-SAM. Ilulissat, 11. marts 2015. [Arctic Living Conditions – what is important to the indigenous peoples of the Arctic – and what are their concerns. Final report to the Nordic Ministers on Nordic cooperation and presentation of the book ’SLiCA: Arctic living conditions. Living conditions and quality of life among Inuit, Sami and indigenous peoples of Chukotka and the Kola Peninsula’ at the meeting of NCM MR-SAM, ilisimatusarfik, March 11, 2015]


o Fortællinger om samfundsorganisering og –forandring. Grønland før, nu og …

o Grønland – før og nu: fra det traditionelle til det moderne Grønland. Om Grønlands vej til selvstyre og aktuelle udfordringerne i en globaliseret verden.

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o Grønland siden 2. Verdenskrig - Fra koloni til hjemmestyre, selvstyre og … ?

o Grönland - der Weg zur Selbstverwaltung und die weiteren Zukunftsaussichten

o Impacts on Arctic societies, cultures and people when snow, water, ice and permafrost change

o Greenland – the road to self-governance and beyond.

Furthermore I have participated in a number of nation-wide conferences on different topics: Unemployment (1986), Labor market (1991 and 1995), Settlements (1992, 1996 and 2011), Regional Development (2008), Hunters (2008), Settlements (2013).

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Outreach activities (II): (to be updated) Dissemination of research results to a broader audience via Greenlandic newspapers

Through the years I have participated in public debates with articles and interviews based on my research. The following references are examples from Greenlandic newspapers:

Poppel, B (1998): Skrøbelige argumenter. I Sermitsiaq nr. 50, 1998.

Poppel, B (2004): Farvel til solidariteten. I: Sermitsiaq nr. 33, 2004.

Poppel, B (2006): Privatisering. Endnu en gang uden vision, målsætninger og konsekvensberegninger. I: Sermitsiaq nr. 43, 2006.

Poppel, B (2006): Om over-, fejl og anden fortolkning. I: Sermitsiaq nr. 49, 2006.

Poppel, B (2007): Grønland ved en korsvej – endnu en gang eller hvor er de kritiske spørgsmål? I: AG, 15.marts 2007.

Poppel, B. (2007): Uddannelsesdebat på et reelt grundlag og med respekt – tak! I AG 4. oktober 2007.

Poppel, B (2008): Aluminiumssmelteværk i Grønland – realiteter og idealforestillinger. I: AG, 6. maj 2008.

Poppel, B (2009): Den grønlandske styrkes uddannelsesniveau – endnu en gang! I: Sermitsiaq nr. 03, 2009.

Poppel, B (2010): Skal fødestedskriteriet genindføres. I: Sermitsiaq nr. 13, 2010.

Poppel, B (2010): Bygdernes fremtid. I: Sermitsiaq nr. 48, 2010.

Poppel, B (2011): Sund fornuft eller liberalistisk autopilot? I: AG, 26.januar 2011.

Poppel, B (2012): En bæredygtig udvikling af bygderne er mulig I: Sermitsiaq nr. 38, 21. september 2012.

Poppel, B (2012): Obama er bedst for os. I: Sermitsiaq-AGs hjemmeside, 6.novenber 2012. http://sermitsiaq.ag/node/139828

In 2009 the Greenland weekly newspaper Sermitsiaq agreed to publish a number of feature articles in 2009 based on research results from the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA: Sermisiaq vol. 08, 2009, February 20, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (1) Individuel velfærd og tilfredshed med livet eller: hvordan synes vi selv det går? / [Individual well being and satisfaction with life or: How are we doing?] Sermitsiaq vol. 15, 2009, April 8, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (2) Et signalement af levevilkår i bygderne / [A description of living conditions in the settlements].

Sermitsiaq vol. 18, 2009, April 30, 2009: Levevilkår I Grønland (3) Befolkningens viden om politik og opfattelse af politikkens betydning / [The knowledge about politics and the perception of the importance of politics among people].

Sermitsiaq vol. 22, 2009, May 29, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (4) Befolkningens opfattelse af væsentlige sociale og miljømæssige problemer / [People’s perception of important social and environmental problems].

Sermitsiaq vol. 24, 2009, June 12, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (5) Fordeling af indkomster og fattigdom – en omfattende politisk opgave / [Distribution of income and poverty – an extensive political task].

Sermitsiaq vol. 27, 2009, July 3, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (6) Det grønlandske sprog – en status ved Selvstyrets indførelse / [The Greenlandic language – state of affairs at the introduction of Self governance].

Sermitsiaq vol. 36, 2009, September 4, 2009: Levevilkår i Grønland (7) Tryghed, tillid og familiebånd – nogle elementer i den ’sociale sammenhængskraft’ i Grønland og andre områder af Arktis / [Safety, trust and family ties – some elements in ’social cohesion ’ in Greenland and other parts of the Arctic].

http://sermitsiaq.ag/node/139828

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Papers & guest lectures

presented at international research conferences, seminars & workshops (to be updated)

March, 1993: “Workshop on the 1991 census and aboriginal peoples’ survey arranged by Inuit Taperisat of Canada and Statistics Canada. Paper: On Production of Statistical Data in Greenland.

January, 1994: Hundested, Denmark - 3rd Nordic Arctic Research Forums. Paper: The Collection, Processing and Communication of Data in Greenland (co-author: Keun Hwang, Danish Bureau of Statistics)

June, 1994: Iqaluit, Canada - 9th Inuit Studies Conference. Paper: Inuit Statistics in Greenland and Canada (co-author: Jack Hicks, Research Director, Nunavut Implementation Committee)

January, 1996: St. Heddinge, Denmark - 5th Nordic Arctic Research Forum. Paper: The Distribution of Income and Changes in the Purchasing Power in Greenland from 1979 to 1993/94 - Some Consequences of 2 Decades of Income Policy

August, 1996: St. John’s, Canada -10th Inuit Studies Conference. Paper: Register and Survey Based Income Measurement in Greenland: Development of Income and Income distribution 1979 - 1994 (co-author: Thomas Andersen)

October, 1996: Narsaq, Greenland, Circumpolar Science Ph.D. Network - Greenland 1996: Conditions for Community Survival and Development: Papers: World of Statistics - Statistics Greenland & the Statistics on Greenland & Register and Survey Based Income Measurement in Greenland: Development of Income and Income distribution 1979 - 1994.

May, 1997: Nuuk, Greenland: Seminar on “The Significance of Country Food on Socio-cultural and Health Conditions. Paper: Living Conditions among Fishermen’s and Hunter’s Households (co-author: Thomas Andersen)

January, 1998: Slette Strand, Denmark - 7th Nordic Arctic Research Forum. Paper: Economic Conditions and Migration in Greenland - A Preliminary Study on Migration to and from Greenland Settlements 1988-1995

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May, 1998: Copenhagen, Denmark - 3rd International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences, ICASS III: Paper: From Administrative Data to Knowledge - Register based Statistics and Research in Greenland

August, 1998: San Francisco: 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Paper: Social Research and Policy in the Circumpolar North: What can Sociology Offer? Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka - as an example

September, 1998: Nuuk, Greenland: 11th Inuit Studies Conference. Paper: Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka

May, 1999: Girona, Spain: Conference in Society of Quality of Life Studies –conference. Paper: Living Conditions in the Arctic

(co-author: Thomas Andersen)

June 1999: Aberdeen, Scotland: The Sixth Circumpolar Universities Co-operation Conference. Paper:

Living Conditions Research in the Arctic (co-author: Thomas Andersen)

August 2000: Aberdeen, Scotland: The 12th Inuit Studies Conference. Paper: A sketch of Rapid Change in Living Conditions in Greenland in the 20th Century – What Can We Learn from Public Statistics and Archival Data, (co-author: Mariekathrine Poppel)

September 2000: Montreux, Switzerland: IAOS (International Association of Official Statistics) – conference: Paper: Measuring Ways of Living and Living Conditions of Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic – The Greenland Inuit as an example (www.statistik.admin.ch/about/international/03iaos_det07.htm)

April 2001: Nuuk, Greenland: Conference on Living Conditions Research: Organizer – Paper:

The Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic

May 2001: Quebec City, Canada – 4th International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences, ICASS IV: Paper: Economic Development and Income Distribution in Greenland 1979-2000

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December 2001: Washington D.C.: International Society of Quality of Life Studies, ISQOLS-conference. Paper:

The Survey of Living Conditions of the Arctic – The Development of an International Comparative Study

May-June 2002: Nuuk, Greenland: First IPSSAS (International PhD. school) Seminar. Paper: Socio economic transformation in Greenland

August 2002: Anchorage, Alaska: The 13th Inuit Studies Conference. Paper The Information Technology Strategy of Statistics Greenland 2003

(co-author: Lene Baunbæk) Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka.

February, 2003: Thorshavn, Faeroe Islands: Participation in seminar Women leave, men stay. Paper:

Development of Greenland in Figures – from a Gender Perspective

September 2003: Nuuk Greenland: 12th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, ICCH/Nuna Med 2003. Paper:

Alcohol and Drug Use among Students in Greenland – A preliminary Comparison between the 1999 and 2003 ESPAD Data.

November 2003: Nuuk, Grønland: Workshop on Social and Economic Research Related to the Management of Marine Resources in West Greenland. Paper: The Hunting and Fishing Society in Greenland

May 2004: Fairbanks, Alaska – 5th International Congress on Arctic Social Sciences, ICASSIV. Paper: Structure and the individual in the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic

September 2004: Thorshavn, Færøerne: Workshop om Velfærdsforskning I Vestnorden. Papers:

Forskning inden for sociale forhold i Grønland – Problemer, aktuel forskning og forskningsstrategier;

Forskning inden for arbejdsmarkeds forhold i Grønland – Problemer, aktuel forskning og forskningsstrategier;

Forskning inden for sundheds forhold i Grønland – Problemer, aktuel forskning og forskningsstrategier.

November, 2004: Oulu, Finland – Workshop on Nordic Role in Arctic Research: Paper SLiCA – experiences.

May 2005: Oulu, Finland – Northern Economies Workshop (organised by Northern Research Forum). Paper:

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Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic/SLiCA and Subsistence – and ways to measure and evaluate its significance

June 2005: Reykjavik, Iceland: Seminar om Velfærdspolitik I Norden: Arbete, Barnhälse och Levnadsvilkor i Västnorden. Paper: Levevilkår, individuel velfærd – og forsøg på måling heraf

March 2006: IPY Data Management Workshop at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK Workshop. Paper:

"Two projects incorporating social science data: SLiCA RAAS and ArcticStat".

July 2006: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa - The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) - Prospects for Quality of Life in the New Millennium. Plenary session/Round table – paper:

How are we doing? Quality of Life Surveys around the Globe –

July 2006: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa - The International Society for Quality-of- Life Studies (ISQOLS) - Prospects for Quality of Life in the New Millennium. Paper:

Why a survey of living conditions among indigenous peoples in the Arctic?

July 2006: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa - The International Society for Quality-of- Life Studies (ISQOLS) - Prospects for Quality of Life in the New Millennium. Paper:

The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic.

September 2006: SLiCA-ECONOR Workshop facilitated by Greenland Home Rule Gvt./Foreign Department and Greenland Representation in Denmark within the auspices of the Sustainable Development Working Group/SDWG of the Arctic Council. Workshop convener. Papers presented:

Introduction to SLiCA in an Arctic Council/SDWG setting.

The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest/ herding- based economy to living in the Arctic.

September 2006: Arctic Social Indicators Workshop at the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Island. Paper presented: "Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic and the development of Arctic Social Indicators".

Oktober 2006: Boreas/Eurocores meeting at Scott Polar Institute, University of Cambridge. Paper presented: Understanding Migration in the Circumpolar North (UMCN) - A Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic; Inuit, Sámi and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka. The SLiCA contribution to UMCN.

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March 22, 2007: IPY launch and SLiCA-Results Workshop at the University of Alaska Anchorage facilitated by National Science Foundation and UAA: Papers presented: Motivation for the Study.

The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic – an analysis based on the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA.

June 8-9, 2007: Arctic Social Indicators Workshop at Roskilde University Centre. Paper presented: Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic and the development of Arctic Social Indicators.

June 10-12, 2007: Workshop at Roskilde University Centre on Understanding Migration in the Circumpolar North (UMCN). Paper presented: Introduction to Greenland population data and some data sources: Statistics Greenland and SLiCA.

June 10-12, 2007: Workshop at Roskilde University Centre on Understanding Migration in the Circumpolar North (UMCN). Paper presented: Introduction to Greenland population data and some data sources: Statistics Greenland and SLiCA.

October 13-17, 2007: European Science Foundation, ESF, Konference i Nynäshamn, Sverige: Conference on Global Environmental Change: The Role of the Arctic. Paper presented: Arctic living conditions and ways of life under rapid change – illustrated by results from SLiCA - Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic; Inuit, Sámi and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka

November 1-3, 2007: IPY-Workshop in Skagen, Denmark on Political Economy of Northern Regional Development POENORD). Paper presented: Social and Scientific Data on Development and Economies in the Arctic.

November 12-14, 2007: IPY workshop on Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks, Stockholm. Paper presented: Human Health and Well-Being approached and exemplified by the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic.

Poppel, Birger. 2007. The 8th Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) San Diego, California, USA. December 6-9, 2007. Paper presented: Arctic Social Indicators: Health and Demography.

Poppel, Birger. 2008. Den arktiske Levevilkårsundersøgelse, SLiCA”. Nordisk Statistiktræf.

Nuuk. Grønland. August 11-14.

Poppel, Birger. 2008. Overview of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic. 6th Inter-

national Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VI). Nuuk Greenland. August 22-26.

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Poppel, Birger. 2008. Grønlændernes levevilkår – nogle resultater fra Den arktiske

Levevilkårsundersøgelse, SLiCA. Lunch seminar, Institute of Criminology, University of Oslo.

October 3.

Poppel, Birger. 2008. Grønland under forandring – mødet mellem subsistensøkonomi og

moderne markedsøkonomi – eller hvorfor vælger mennesker at bosætte sig og blive boende

i et ofte barskt klima og ugæstfrit miljø? Lunch seminar, Statistics Norway. October 6.

Poppel, Birger. 2008. The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic – an analysis based on the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA. Conference: Human Dimensions in the Circumpolar Arctic. Umeå University, Sweden. October 8-10.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Rapid societal change in Greenland and some indicators on social

cohesion in contemporary Greenland – Results form the Survey of Living Conditions in the

Arctic, SLiCA. Workshop: ‘More conciliation – less punishment. Possibilities and obstacles for

an extended use of restorative justice’. Oñati University. Spain. May 21-22.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. A Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA: Inuit Sámi and the

Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka. Workshop: ‘Arctic Databases, Intelligence and Information

Management. Aalborg University. Denmark. June 6-7.

Poppel, Birger and Jack Kruse. 2009. Quality of Life and Sustainability – Views and evidence

from the Arctic Societies. 9th ISQOLS conference, in Plenary session: ‘Quality of Life and

Sustainability – Concordant or Conflicting Goals of Societal Development’. Firenze, July 19-23.

Poppel, Birger. 2009. Is suicide a problem in the community? Suicide ideation - What can we

learn from the Arctic Living Conditions Survey, SLiCA? Seminar: ‘Hope and resilience in

Suicide Prevention’. Nuuk, Greenland. November 7-8.

Poppel, Birger. 2010. Demographic change – urbanization and new industries. Views and

evidence from the Arctic Societies. Nordic Council of Ministers Conference: “Arctic Changing

Realities”. Copenhagen. May, 26.

Poppel, Birger and Jack Kruse. 2010. Are Subsistence Activities, Harvest of Renewable

Resources and Herding Important to Indigenous Peoples in Modern Arctic Economies and

Cultures. IPY Oslo Science Conference 2010. June 8-12.

Poppel, Birger, Jack Kruse, Larissa Abruitina, Ann Ragnhild Broderstad and Hugh Beach. 2010.

Relations between Suicide ideation, Social Problems and other Dimensions of Living

Conditions. IPY Oslo Science Conference 2010. June 8-12,.

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Poppel, Birger. 2010. Levevilkår i Grønland. Møde I Nordisk Råds Medborger- og

Forbrugerudvalg. Kangerlussuaq. June 28.

Poppel, Birger. 2010. Arktiske Levevilkår for unge. NORDBUK-konference (Nordisk Børne- og

Ungdomskomité): Demokratisk medborgerskab & iværksætteri i Nordens yderdistrikter. Nuuk.

August 17-20.

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Poppel, Birger & Hovelsrud, Grete K. 2011. Arctic societies, cultures and peoples in a

changing cryosphere (Chapter 10, SWIPA Report). AMAP 20th Anniversary Conference: The

Arctic as a Messenger for Global processes – Climate Change and Pollution. Copenhagen 4-6

May.

Poppel, Birger. 2011. Levevilkår i bygder og byer – belyst ved resultater fra Den arktiske

Levevilkårsundersøgelse (SLiCA). VNF-2030 workshop: Program for Vestnorden 2030

bygdernes fremtidsvisioner. Nuuk, June 4.

Poppel, Birger. 2011. The Inuit World. Measuring living conditions & individual well being –

monitoring human development. The Arctic Living Conditions Survey, SLiCA, as an example.

7th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII). Akureyri, Iceland. June 22-26.

Poppel, Birger. 2011. A survey of living conditions among indigenous peoples in the Arctic – (Some) Lessons Learned – and what next? 7th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII). Akureyri, Iceland. June 22-26.

Poppel, Birger. 2011. Levevilkår i Arktis – hvad er vigtigt for de oprindelige folk i Arktis og hvad bekymrer? Offentligt møde under Arktisk Råds Ministermøde, Nuuk, May 11.

Poppel, Birger. 2011. Opening address. Arctic Dialogue – Greenland Conference: Ilismatusarfik September 24-25.

Poppel, Birger. 2012. Borgerdeltagelse i det moderne Grønland – vi mangler svar, men har vi de nødvendige spørgsmål? Vestnordisk Råds temakonference: Vestnordens position i det internationale system, med særligt fokus på Arktis. Ilulissat, March 27-30.

Poppel, Birger. 2012. The Greenlandic Settlement Structure – Who Moves, Who Stays and

Why? Results from the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA. IPY 2012 Conference:

From Knowledge to Action. Montreal, April 22-27.

Poppel, Birger. 2012. Arktiske samfund, kulturer og folk i en kryosfære under forandring.

Klimasession i forbindelse med underskrivelse af grønlandsk-dansk samarbejdsaftale.

Ilimmarfik, Nuuk, August 15. Co-author: Grete K. Hovelsrud CICERO, Oslo.

Poppel, Birger. 2012. Living conditions and wellbeing – Nordic research/projects: The Survey

of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA and Arctic Social Indicator, ASI as examples. Icelandic

Greenlandic Arctic Science Days. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk, September 21-22.

Poppel, Birger. 2012. Grønland - en hot spot i Arktis (fra ’stepping stone’ til ’hot spot’).

Norges Forskningsråd: Nordområdekonference 2012. UNIS, Svalbard, November 27-29.

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Poppel, Birger. 2013. Extractive industries and living conditions in the Arctic. PhD Summer

School: Health, Society and Environment in Relation to Large-Scale Industrial Projects. Nuuk,

Greenland 5th-9th September, 2013.

Poppel, Birger. 2013. Kan erfaringer fra interviewing i Den sorte Firkant for 40 år siden bruges i byer og bygder i dagens Grønland? Forskningsseminar: Untold Stories: Adventures

in Methodology, Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk. 6-7 November.

Poppel, Birger. 2013. Arctic sustainability – the arctic as a ’hot spot’ in a natural resource

boom. ECONOR III workshop, Oslo, November 18-19.

Poppel, Birger. 2014. Climate change and resource exploitation – challenges facing human

development and sustainable development in the Arctic’. PhD Summer School within the

social and human sciences: Comprehensive Sustainable Development in Arctic Societies:

Sisimiut, Greenland 12th-15th May.

Poppel, Birger. 2014. SLiCA: from research questions to methodology, partnerships and

research ethics, concepts, data and results. Panel presentation and discussion in: ’Bringing

Northern Community Needs into the ICARP-III Process Through UARCTIC: The UCCARP Project –

Panel. 8th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII). Prince George, UNBC,

Canada. May 22-26.

Poppel, Birger. 2014. Measuring Living Conditions / Well-Being and Quality of Life of

Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic with SLiCA data. 8th International Congress of Arctic Social

Sciences (ICASS VIII). Prince George, UNBC, Canada. May 22-26.

Poppel, Birger. 2014. Internal Migration to and from Greenland’s Settlements. 8th

International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII). Prince George, UNBC, Canada.

May 22-26.

Poppel, Birger. 2015. The importance of subsistence to indigenous peoples of the Arctic – Different Aspects of Subsistence Activities in Contemporary Arctic Economies and Cultures. Findings Based on the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA. Paper delivered to Intersessional Expert Workshop on Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling (ASW), convened by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Maniitsoq. September 14-18, 2015.

Poppel, Birger. 2016. Living in the Arctic. Greenland – from colony to self-governance: history, economics and political issues. Current living conditions and challenges. International Conference on economic and political developments and the geological potential of the Arctic. TU Bergakademie, Freiberg. June 9 - 10, 2016.

Poppel, Birger. 2016. Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life among Indigenous

Peoples - Ethical challenges in research capacity building. PhD Summer School: Ethics and

local Research capacity building. Nuuk, Greenland, September 28-30, 2016.

Documents

Ansættelser siden 1978 /Work experience since 1978 · 1993/94 - Some Consequences of 2 Decades of Income Policy - published in: Lise Lyck (ed): Socio-economic Developments in Greenland