Timo Koivurova

Arctic Centre

University of Lapland

timo.koivurova@ulapland.fi

Rovaniemi

Research professor Timo Koivurova, is a director of the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) and has specialized in various aspects of law applicable in the Arctic and Antarctic region. In 2002, Koivurova's doctoral dissertation "Environmental impact assessment in the Arctic: a Study of International Legal Norms" was published by Ashgate. Increasingly, his research work addresses the interplay between different levels of environmental law, legal status of indigenous peoples, law of the sea in the Arctic waters, integrated maritime policy in the EU, the role of law in mitigating/adapting to climate change, the function and role of the Arctic Council in view of its future challenges and the possibilities for an Arctic treaty. He has been involved as an expert in several international processes globally and in the Arctic region and has published on the above-mentioned topics extensively. He is also an executive committee member in the European Polar Board and China Nordic Arctic Research Centre and editor-in-chief in Yearbook of Polar Law (Brill) and the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press).