Dr. Tatiana Vlasova is a leading researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russia where she received her PhD in social/economic geography. She graduated from Moscow State University’s Geographical Department as a physical geographer. Her experience in the Arctic is based on her fieldwork and participation in several international multidisciplinary projects such as: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment where she served as a representative from RAIPON, Local Health and Environmental Reporting from the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North (UNEP Grid-Arendal), Arctic Social Indicators, and the Arctic Resilience Report. She was a co-principle investigator of the Project “Natural and Social Science Research Cooperation in Northern Russia and Norway for Mutual Benefits Across National and Scientific Borders” sponsored by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and many other national and international projects. She was a co-principle investigator and the leader of a Russian team of the Belmont forum “Arctic sustainability: synthesis of Knowledge” (ASUS) project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). During the IPY 2007-2008 she served as a member of the IPY Committee of Russia and on the Sub-Committee on Observations. Her current research interests include socially-oriented observations and assessments of quality of life conditions and human capital development involving traditional and local knowledge as well as Arctic sustainability  monitoring. Nowadays she is the Chair of the  International Geographical Union Commission on “Cold and High Altitude Regions” (IGU-CHAR). She  is  a Councilor of the International Arctic Social Science Association (IASSA) and a member of the editorial board of “Polar Geography”.

Main research’s areas of interest are:

Arctic, sustainability, social-ecological systems resilience, monitoring, socially-oriented observations, international cooperation, human and social capital, climate change, adaptation.