Towering wooden moose, restaurant in belly, planned as tourist attraction

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - With little else to attract tourists, promoters of two Swedish counties are pinning their hopes on a truly gargantuan wooden moose.

When completed, the 45-metre tall, 47-metre-long moose will have a restaurant in its belly, as well as a concert hall, conference rooms and a shop, according to Thorbjorn Holmlund, project co-ordinator and local tourism promoter.

The monument to the moose will be so big that its massive wooden hooves will be firmly planted in two different counties, Vasterbotten and Norrbotten, about 870 kilometres north of Stockholm.

"The reason we decided to build a moose is because there is something magnificent about the animal. It's the king of the forest," said Holmlund.

The project is expected to be completed by summer of 2009.

The Canadian Press: Sweden: Towering wooden moose, restaurant in belly, planned as tourist attraction

Cultural Impact Assessments 28-9 Feb 08, Yellowknife, NWT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The NWT Region of the Western and Northern Canada Affiliate of the International Association for Impact Assessment is issuing a call for presentations, papers and posters for a conference on February 28th and 29th, 2008, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. This conference will focus on Cultural Impact Assessment in the broad sense, including such possible themes as:

• Cultural impact assessment methods and case studies
  
• Bringing the cultural together with the ecological
  
• Models of inclusion of cultural knowledge in project design, implementation and reclamation
  
• Cultural landscape assessment
  
• Designing agreements to protect culture
  
• The role of Traditional Knowledge in Cultural Impact Assessment
  
• Getting past Go vs. No go in cultural impact assessment
  
• Designing cultural mitigation measures that stick
  
• Implementing cultural and socio-economic measures of agreements
  
• Cross-cultural awareness: implications for EIA processes
  
• Participatory and community-based methods for assessment
  

 

This conference will draw on the considerable expertise of those involved in the research or practice of EIA as it relates to this general subject.  Those interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit a 300 word abstract to the IAIA Western and Northern Canada Affiliate no later than Dec. 16^th, 2007 Please send abstracts to Ginger Gibson: at vgibson@interchange.ubc.ca   Submissions will be reviewed and contributors notified by Friday Dec. 21^st, 2007

For more information on the conference, contact Ginger Gibson vgibson@interchange.ubc.ca

KEY WORDS: Values, cultural landscapes, wellness, beyond biophysical, stories on the land, assessment methods, community-based and participatory research