Arctic Sustainability Research

Petrov, Andrey N.; BurnSilver, Shauna; Chapin, Frederic; Fondahl, Gail; Graybill, Jessica K.; Keil, Kathrin; Nilsson, Annika E.; Riedlsperger, Rudolf; Schweitzer, P.

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“…In the Arctic, interest in the notion of sustainable development emerged in the 1980s in parallel with and partly in response to the global discourses on how to reconcile economic and social development with environmental protection [25]. As global change research developed, scientific practices also came under scrutiny, leading to calls for "sustainability science" with more interdisciplinary approaches and an emphasis on addressing societal problems, e.g., [26].…”

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“…Its further development included attention to system dynamics in resilience thinking, with focus on the capacity of social-ecological systems to cope with and recover from disturbances and more recently developed with added attention to people's capacity to learn in order to adapt to change or deliberately try to transform the system [27][28][29][30]. Partly linked to the focus on learning as a key social aspect of social-ecological systems, sustainability science has come to include a stronger focus on processes for arriving at new development pathways, including an emphasis on co-production of knowledge [25,31]. Arctic research features a growing body of work based on local case studies where co-production of knowledge with communities has been central.…”

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Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic

Nilsson

Larsen

2020

Sustainability

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Since the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015, efforts are underway to identify indicators for monitoring progress. However, perceptions of sustainability are scale and place specific, and there has also been a call for Sustainable Development Goals and indicators that are more relevant for the Arctic than the global perspectives. Based on earlier and ongoing efforts to identify Arctic Social Indicators for monitoring human development, insights from scenario workshops and interviews at various locations in the Barents region and Greenland and on studies of adaptive capacity and resilience in the Arctic, we provide an exploratory assessment of the global SDGs and indicators from an Arctic perspective. We especially highlight a need for additional attention to demography, including outmigration; indigenous rights; Arctic-relevant measures of economic development; and social capital and institutions that can support adaptation and transformation in this rapidly changing region. Issues brought up by the SDG framework that need more attention in Arctic monitoring include gender, and food and energy security. We furthermore highlight a need for initiatives that can support bottom–up processes for identifying locally relevant indicators for sustainable development that could serve as a way to engage Arctic residents and other regional and local actors in shaping the future of the region and local communities, within a global sustainability context.

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Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic

Nilsson

Larsen

2020

Sustainability

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“…Th is idea, 23 years later, was refl ected as the main principle of the sustainable development concept in the UN report Our Common Future (Barlybaev 2001;Bobylev 2004;Kasimov and Mazurov 2005). In addition, some of the ideas that shaped the view of sustainability came from the works of the Russian scientists Vladimir Vernadsky (Vernadsky 1998), Nikita Moiseev (Moiseev 1995) and their followers who advocated the "rational", science-driven development that would inevitably lead to a sustainable future (Petrov et al 2017).…”

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“…In his Murmansk speech, Gorbachev urged the public to "applaud the activities of the authoritative World Commission on Environment and Development" (Gorbachev 1987). His call for collaboration paved the way for new policies fostering sustainable development in the most fragile territories of Russia (Petrov et al 2017).…”

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“…Certain regions of Russia are aff ected by growing industries and natural resource extraction, notably the Arctic region (Newell and Henry 2017). Th e discourse of sustainability in the Arctic has its own specifi cs: fragile ecosystems undergoing rapid change (Forbes et al 2009), world-wide attention to the utilization of land and sea, politically engaged indigenous groups (Petrov et al 2017), and the major role of the region in the world economy (Laruelle 2014). Th e composition of the legislation relevant to the Arctic is rather complicated in Russia embracing four groups of documents: 1) environmental laws, including laws on the Northern indigenous peoples; 2) resource-related laws and regulations on mining and subsoil activities, land use, water, forest and related resources; 3) legal regulation of the transportation by the Northern Sea Route; 4) strategic documents contouring the Arctic development.…”

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Sustainable Development of the Russian Arctic: Legal Implications

Gladun

2019

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Sustainable development has increasingly entered into the Arctic context. For Russia, the Arctic means enormous natural resources and potential for the country's social and economic well-being. Th e focus of this paper is the dynamics of environmental and Arctic legislation in Russia; attention is also given to the rationale and justifi cation of legal implications of sustainable development in the Russian Arctic. Specifi cally, it discusses barriers in transitioning to sustainable development and estimates relevant legal tools used over the last three decades applicable to the Arctic territories. Th e general idea is that despite strong political will to promote sustainable development, Russia's unstable economy has impeded the country's sustainability development objectives. Consequently, resource-based development is prioritized over environmental concerns and puts environmentally fragile territories, like the Arctic, at great risk. Th e research methods include context analysis of the Russian federal and regional laws and contextual interviews at the federal and regional government levels. Th e results of the research are the identifi cation of achievements and defi ciencies in the rule of law related to sustainable development of the Russian Arctic as well as policy recommendations for public authorities. Th e paper outlines that as long as Russian legislation lacks specifi c rules addressing sustainability in the Russian Arctic, it would be diffi cult for the government to implement international principles of sustainable development across this territory.

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Introduction: Energy and the North

Lempinen

2018

Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability

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Arctic Sustainability Research

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Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic

Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic

Sustainable Development of the Russian Arctic: Legal Implications

Introduction: Energy and the North

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