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What Does It Take to Move a City? Arctic Initiative and Luleå University Student Arctic Dialogue

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The world's biggest underground iron ore mine is about to undermine the Swedish city of Kiruna. The answer? Move the city.

Join the Arctic Initiative for a conversation with students from Luleå University and experts from across the globe for a case discussion about sustainable development, consensus building, and how one Arctic city is responding to rapid change.

Apply to be part of this unique case discussion opportunity by Monday, September 28, 2020, so you can be matched with your international team.

Date: Time: - Location: Online
A Kiruna heritage building being moved intact in August 2017.

The Kiruna Case Discussion

Students from Harvard will connect virtually with students at Luleå University for a discussion about the case of Kiruna, a town in Northern Sweden that is relocating because of subsidence due to mining and climate change. 

Students will have an opportunity to play the role of various decision-makers in the town, and discuss how they would handle the public policy challenge of town relocation. Experts from Sweden and the town of Kiruna will provide context for the case discussion and share their real-life experience of how this experiment in resilience is playing out. 

Some case preparation work is required as Harvard students will be paired with students from Luleå University to come up with their teams strategy to deal with the sinking town in advance of the Oct. 2 Zoom session. 

Apply to be part of this unique case discussion opportunity by Monday, September 28, 2020, so you can be matched with your international team. 

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