{"id":3841,"date":"2021-03-15T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islandstudies.com\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:01:54","slug":"what-newfoundland-and-labrador-can-learn-from-icelands-financial-crisis-press-release-march-15-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/testforneal\/2021\/03\/15\/what-newfoundland-and-labrador-can-learn-from-icelands-financial-crisis-press-release-march-15-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"[Press Release] What Newfoundland and Labrador can learn from Iceland\u2019s financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


For Immediate Release<\/em>

Charlottetown, PEI (March 15, 2021) \u2014
What Newfoundland and Labrador can learn from Iceland\u2019s financial crisis<\/strong>

UPEI’s Institute of Island Studies hosting free virtual event Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 featuring researchers from Newfoundland & Labrador and Iceland.<\/em> More here<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Stella’s Circle building in St. John’s, shown
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As cold-water islands with a shared history, Newfoundland and Labrador and Iceland are often compared. This time researchers are looking at what one island can learn from the other about getting through a financial crisis. They will be sharing their findings at a free, online, public event on Tuesday, March 30th at 1:00 pm ADT, hosted by the Institute of Island Studies<\/a> at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the financial catastrophe in Newfoundland and Labrador and the 2008 banking crisis in Iceland both seemed to happen suddenly, this study shows they both had deep roots. \u201cNeither government heeded warnings before their crisis and both had poor communications throughout their crisis,\u201d explains one of the researchers, Mark Stoddart of Memorial University in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland and Labrador. \u201cIn Iceland however, public outrage created a turning point that we haven\u2019t yet seen in Newfoundland and Labrador.\u201d

This research undertaken by Professor Stoddart and Dr. \u00c1sthildur Elva Bernhar\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir, an independent research scholar at Reykjav\u00edkAkadem\u00edan in Iceland, is a part of the Sustainable Island Futures<\/a> project being coordinated by Dr. Jim Randall, the UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability<\/a> at UPEI. The project aims to develop a better understanding of the sustainable development practices and potential of small islands and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information and to register for the event, visit islandstudies.com\/islandlectureseries-march2021<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media contact: <\/strong>
Dave Atkinson, UPEI
(902) 620-5117, datkinson@upei.ca<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Event contact: <\/strong>
Maggie Henry, Institute of Island Studies, UPEI
mjhenry@upei.ca<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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