Nicholas Joseph Parlato
Job description
Researcher on the project, INdigenous Peoples Organizations and their DIPlomatic Agencies in the Arctic and Beyond (INDIP)
Publications outside Cristin
Parlato, N. (2026). On the Limits of the Complex Systems Paradigm: Reckoning with Entropy,
Epistemology, and the Social in the Anthropocene. Foundations of Science.
Waite, T., Zhang, Y., Morris, S.T., Lovecraft, A.L., Parlato, N., Zhao, M., Evans, M., Edmonds, J., de
Witt, M., Kasper, J., Kholod, N. (2026). Understanding regional heterogeneity in energy systems and
energy affordability: A polar paradox in Arctic Alaska. Energy Research & Social Science, 133, 104572.
Parlato, N., Middleton, A., Gordon, H.S.J., Madani, Z., Hancock, S. (2025). Reclaiming Science for Peace:
Towards a Just and Interdependent Planetary Future. UArctic News. URL:
https://www.uarctic.org/news/2025/11/reclaiming-science-for-peace-towards-a-just-and-interdependent-
planetary-future/
Parlato, N., Lovecraft, A., Meek, C., and Payenna, H. (2024). Networked Governance, Institutional
Change, and Governmental Coordination for a Dynamic Social-Environmental System: Coastal
Management in Arctic Alaska, 1977-2023. BOEM CMI Report.
Parlato, N. and Ward Jones, M. (2025). The Law of Thaw: Understanding Subnational Land Use Policies
for Permafrost-agroecosystems. Polar Record, 61, e3.
Parlato, N. and Madani, Z. (2024). Water Justice in the Arctic: Indigenous Rights, Legal Challenges, and
the Future of Governance Amidst Climate Change. Current Developments in Arctic Law, 12,
Publisher: University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, ISSN: 23433418, Lapin yliopisto.
Ward Jones, M., Habeck, J.O., Ulrich, M., Crate, S., Gannon, G., Schwoerer, T., Jones, B., Kanevskiy, M.,
Baral, P., Maharjan, A., Steiner, J., Spring, A., Price, M.J., Bysouth, D., Forbes, B., Verdonen, M.,
Kumpula, T., Strauss, J., Windirsch, T., Poeplau, C., Shur, Y., Galgioti, B., Parlato, N., Tao, F., Turetsky,
M., Grand, S., Unc, A., Bordchard, N. (2024). Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-
agroecosystems under environmental change. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 56(1).
Parlato, N. (2024). Donbass-Beringia: A Personal Journey Along the East-West Divide. In Kasten, E., I.
Krupnik, G. Fondahl (eds.), A Fractured North- Facing Dilemmas. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung
Sibirien.
Turner, C., Canino, A., Garcia, H.M., Divine, L.M., Robson, B.R., & Parlato, N. (2024). Best Practices for
Upholding Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Insights and recommendations for funding entities, government agencies, philanthropic institutions and researchers. Research Workspace. 10.24431/rw1k8e1
Lovecraft, A.L., Boylan, B., Bennett, A., Connor, B., Parlato, N., Fresco, N., Meek, C. (2024). Alaska’s
changing Arctic: Coastal infrastructure issues and trends for the Alaska State Legislature and its citizens
(M. Biermann, N. Fresco eds). Center for Arctic Policy Studies, International Arctic Research Center,
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Lovecraft, A., Boylan, B., Burke, N., Glover, A., Parlato, N., Robb, K., Thoman, R., Walsh, J., & Watson,
B. (2023). Alaska’s changing Arctic: Energy issues and trends for the Alaska State Legislature and its
citizens (M. Biermann & H. McFarland, Eds). Center for Arctic Policy Studies, International Arctic
Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Lovecraft, A., Lee, O., Parlato, N. (2022). System identity and transformation in petroleum jurisdictions: A
multi-method approach for the North Slope Borough, Alaska. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
Fondahl, G., Parlato, N., Filippova, V., Savvinova, A. (2021). The Difference Place Makes: Regional
Approaches to “Territories of Traditional Nature Use” in the Russian North. Arctic Review on Law and
Politics, 12, 108-133.
Parlato, N., Fondahl, G., Filippova, V., Savvinova, A. (2021). The Evolution of Forming “Territories of
Traditional Nature Use” in the Sakha Republic (Iakutia). Sibirica, 20(1), 1-27.
Research interests
Arctic legal and political geographies, Indigenous legalities, posthumanism and Anthropocene studies, coastal and marine governance.