First North Hunt Seminar
First North Hunt Seminar – September 28–29, 2009 at SLU in Umeå, Sweden
Social Sustainability of Hunting Tourism in Peripheral Areas
Tentative Programme
Facilitator: Anders Esselin, SLU
28 Sept, afternoon
Session 1: Social sustainability of hunting tourism in the Northern Periphery
12:00 Introduction to the project
and the seminar – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
12:30 National reports from the North Hunt project & Stakeholder feedback
12:30 Finland: Susanna Keskinarkaus, Ruralia Institute
1310 Sweden:
Fredrik Dahl, SLU
13:50 Coffee, tea
14:20 Iceland: Eyrún J. Bjarnadóttir, ITRC and Hjördís Sigursteinsdóttir, RHA, University of
Akureyri
15:00 Scotland: Colin Hunter, University of
Aberdeen
15:40-16:00 Summing up so far
– contrasts and similarities - Colin Hunter, University of Aberdeen
Stakeholder panel:
Sævar Guðjónsson, entrepreneur, Iceland
Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland
+ other stakeholders representatives
29 Sept
Session 2: Sustainability of hunting and hunting tourism.
08:30 Interpreting
sustainability in a tourism context –
Robert Pettersson, ETOUR, Mid-Sweden University
09:10 Harvesting samll game - is there a need for thresholds? Tomas Willebrand, Hedmark, University College,
Norway
09:50 Swedish studies in hunting & hunting tourism – Göran Ericsson, SLU,
Sweden
10:30
Coffee, tea
International outlooks:
11:00 Canada – John Hull, New Zealand Tourism Institute
11:40 Interplay between formal and informal rules on hunting. Information about the EU FP7
project HUNTing for sustainability - Camilla Sanström, Umeå university, Sweden
Sustainable harvest - incorporating human decisions by Nils Bunnefeld
12:20 Lunch
Session 3: Hunting rights and feeling of ownership
13:20 Introduction
– Setting the stage – Anne Matilainen, Ruralia Institute, Finland
13:40 Panel discussion – Participants: Elvar Árni
Lund, Icelandic Hunting and Shooting
Association; Tommy Holmberg, NordGuide, Sweden;
Jukka Bisi, Metsähallitus, Finland; + other stakeholder
representatives
14:40 Coffee, tea
Session 4: Conclusion
15:10 Synthesis of
national reports – Sami Kurki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
15:35 Final comment - Shawn Riley, SLU/Michigan State University
16:00 Closing of conference
The seminar will be directed to entrepreneurs in hunting tourism, primarily in the project area, and other categories with interests in the field such as hunters, landowners, researchers, rural developers, and managers of public land.
Questions may be addressed to Göran Sjöberg, goran.sjoberg@adm.slu.se, +46-70-568 0140.
More information and forms for participation will be posted shortly.
