Anne Merrild Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 106008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Merrild Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Merrild |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7889-4604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Impacts of mine closure and the potential of impact assessment to enable post-mining transition
Mine closure generates social, environmental, and economic impacts that standard project-level impact assessment (IA) often overlooks. Despite this, the role of IA in guiding mine closure planning, particularly in relation to post-mining transition (PMT), remains underexplored. This study investigates the significance of mine closure impacts and explores the potential of IA to inform closure planning. A typology of fifty-four positive and negativ…
Social impacts of bauxite mining and refining
This article presents an extensive review of scientific publications focused on how the impacts of bauxite mining and refining have been investigated. This includes results on which types of impacts have been addressed in scientific publications and details concerning social impacts in the years 2010‒2020. The analysis reveals that while environmental impacts are most prominent in academic publications, social impacts have been increasingly inves…
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
Social no-go factors in mine site selection
Does Indigenous Knowledge Occur in and Influence Impact Assessment Reports? Exploring Consultation Remarks in Three Cases of Mining Projects in Greenland
Mineral extraction is pursued in Greenland to strengthen the national economy. In order that new industries promote sustainable development, environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments are legally required and undertaken by companies prior to license approval to inform decision-making. Knowledge systems in Arctic indigenous communities have evolved through adaptive processes over generations, and indigenous knowledge (IK) is co…
In the Shadow of the Mountain
The Future of Hydrocarbon Development in Greenland
Although Greenland has pursued hydrocarbon development over the last four decades, no viable reserves have been found to date. Therefore, local Greenland communities have little experience or knowledge of how such development might affect their way of life or how to influence project development and outcomes should a significant reserve be found. On the North Slope of Alaska, in contrast, hydrocarbon extraction was commercialized in the 1970s, an…
Petroleum as a challenge to arctic societies
How three key factors are driving and challenging implementation of renewable energy systems in remote Arctic communities
Challenges related to access and supply of fossil fuel generated energy in Arctic communities, together with a global agenda to fight the climate change, including through promoting renewable energy systems as alternatives to fossil fuels, are motivating implementation of renewables in the Arctic Region, as in the rest of the world. Various benefits are anticipated in relation to implementation of renewables in Arctic communities, a fact that is …
Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre
(Published: May 2016)Citation: R. L. Johnstone and A. M. Hansen. “Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2016, pp. 107–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.421
Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Residents in Upernavik as Oil Companies are Making a First Entrance into Baffin Bay
The oil industry is making its first entrance offshore in Baffin Bay in a time where Inuit residents on the northwest coast of Greenland are struggling to uphold a traditional way of living. The operating oil companies are encouraged by the Government of Greenland to promote a high degree of local content in projects to secure benefits to residents in affected areas. However, a prerequisite to a high degree of local content is local interest to e…
Corporate collaboration
Greenlandic regulations require oil companies to conduct a Social Impact Assessment before undertaking exploration drilling. A key part of this assessment is a Social Baseline Study (SBS), which provides descriptions of existing social conditions and development trends and goals in communities that could potentially be affected by exploration drilling in the area. Four oil and gas companies operating in Baffin Bay, offshore of Northwest Greenland…
Managing the social impacts of the rapidly-expanding extractive industries in Greenland
Perceptions of public participation in impact assessment
Oil exploration presently takes place offshore NW of Greenland. The recent entry of the oil industry in this sparsely populated area carries the potential for radical and unpredictable societal change. To ensure local adaptation, Public participation (PP) is implemented as a legal requirement in environmental impact assessment of offshore oil exploration. However, NGOs and associations, industry and individuals in Greenland express general frustr…
The paradox of strategic environmental assessment
The significance of structural power in Strategic Environmental Assessment
A method for EIA scoping of wave energy converters—based on classification of the used technology
A value-rational view of impact assessment of mega industry in a Greenland planning and policy context
The article reflects on the challenges to Greenland's impact assessment (IA) system in a planning and policy context, and discusses if and how IA at a strategic decision level could contribute to securing good environmental management and support sustainable development. This is done by focusing on two value-rational questions: (1) Where are we going with industrial development, IA regulation and IA practice in Greenland? and (2) What should be d…
The paradox of strategic environmental assessment
Managing the social impacts of the rapidly-expanding extractive industries in Greenland
The significance of structural power in Strategic Environmental Assessment
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
In the Shadow of the Mountain
Petroleum as a challenge to arctic societies
Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Residents in Upernavik as Oil Companies are Making a First Entrance into Baffin Bay
The oil industry is making its first entrance offshore in Baffin Bay in a time where Inuit residents on the northwest coast of Greenland are struggling to uphold a traditional way of living. The operating oil companies are encouraged by the Government of Greenland to promote a high degree of local content in projects to secure benefits to residents in affected areas. However, a prerequisite to a high degree of local content is local interest to e…
Does Indigenous Knowledge Occur in and Influence Impact Assessment Reports? Exploring Consultation Remarks in Three Cases of Mining Projects in Greenland
Mineral extraction is pursued in Greenland to strengthen the national economy. In order that new industries promote sustainable development, environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments are legally required and undertaken by companies prior to license approval to inform decision-making. Knowledge systems in Arctic indigenous communities have evolved through adaptive processes over generations, and indigenous knowledge (IK) is co…
A method for EIA scoping of wave energy converters—based on classification of the used technology
A value-rational view of impact assessment of mega industry in a Greenland planning and policy context
The article reflects on the challenges to Greenland's impact assessment (IA) system in a planning and policy context, and discusses if and how IA at a strategic decision level could contribute to securing good environmental management and support sustainable development. This is done by focusing on two value-rational questions: (1) Where are we going with industrial development, IA regulation and IA practice in Greenland? and (2) What should be d…
A method for EIA scoping of wave energy converters—based on classification of the used technology
The significance of structural power in Strategic Environmental Assessment
Perceptions of public participation in impact assessment
Oil exploration presently takes place offshore NW of Greenland. The recent entry of the oil industry in this sparsely populated area carries the potential for radical and unpredictable societal change. To ensure local adaptation, Public participation (PP) is implemented as a legal requirement in environmental impact assessment of offshore oil exploration. However, NGOs and associations, industry and individuals in Greenland express general frustr…
The paradox of strategic environmental assessment
Corporate collaboration
Greenlandic regulations require oil companies to conduct a Social Impact Assessment before undertaking exploration drilling. A key part of this assessment is a Social Baseline Study (SBS), which provides descriptions of existing social conditions and development trends and goals in communities that could potentially be affected by exploration drilling in the area. Four oil and gas companies operating in Baffin Bay, offshore of Northwest Greenland…
Managing the social impacts of the rapidly-expanding extractive industries in Greenland
Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre
(Published: May 2016)Citation: R. L. Johnstone and A. M. Hansen. “Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2016, pp. 107–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.421
Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Residents in Upernavik as Oil Companies are Making a First Entrance into Baffin Bay
The oil industry is making its first entrance offshore in Baffin Bay in a time where Inuit residents on the northwest coast of Greenland are struggling to uphold a traditional way of living. The operating oil companies are encouraged by the Government of Greenland to promote a high degree of local content in projects to secure benefits to residents in affected areas. However, a prerequisite to a high degree of local content is local interest to e…
How three key factors are driving and challenging implementation of renewable energy systems in remote Arctic communities
Challenges related to access and supply of fossil fuel generated energy in Arctic communities, together with a global agenda to fight the climate change, including through promoting renewable energy systems as alternatives to fossil fuels, are motivating implementation of renewables in the Arctic Region, as in the rest of the world. Various benefits are anticipated in relation to implementation of renewables in Arctic communities, a fact that is …
The Future of Hydrocarbon Development in Greenland
Although Greenland has pursued hydrocarbon development over the last four decades, no viable reserves have been found to date. Therefore, local Greenland communities have little experience or knowledge of how such development might affect their way of life or how to influence project development and outcomes should a significant reserve be found. On the North Slope of Alaska, in contrast, hydrocarbon extraction was commercialized in the 1970s, an…
Petroleum as a challenge to arctic societies
Does Indigenous Knowledge Occur in and Influence Impact Assessment Reports? Exploring Consultation Remarks in Three Cases of Mining Projects in Greenland
Mineral extraction is pursued in Greenland to strengthen the national economy. In order that new industries promote sustainable development, environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments are legally required and undertaken by companies prior to license approval to inform decision-making. Knowledge systems in Arctic indigenous communities have evolved through adaptive processes over generations, and indigenous knowledge (IK) is co…
In the Shadow of the Mountain
Social no-go factors in mine site selection
Collaboration through environmental assessment networks
Social impacts of bauxite mining and refining
This article presents an extensive review of scientific publications focused on how the impacts of bauxite mining and refining have been investigated. This includes results on which types of impacts have been addressed in scientific publications and details concerning social impacts in the years 2010‒2020. The analysis reveals that while environmental impacts are most prominent in academic publications, social impacts have been increasingly inves…
Impacts of mine closure and the potential of impact assessment to enable post-mining transition
Mine closure generates social, environmental, and economic impacts that standard project-level impact assessment (IA) often overlooks. Despite this, the role of IA in guiding mine closure planning, particularly in relation to post-mining transition (PMT), remains underexplored. This study investigates the significance of mine closure impacts and explores the potential of IA to inform closure planning. A typology of fifty-four positive and negativ…
Political science (14 works) · Mining and Resource Management (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (9 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (7 works)