How three key factors are driving and challenging implementation of renewable energy systems in remote Arctic communities

Mortensen, Lucia; Hansen, Anne Merrild; Shestakov, A. S.

doi:10.1080/1088937x.2017.1329758

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“…By contrast, remote Arctic communities in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia often rely on fossil fuels affected by "high transportation and commodity prices, lack of transportation infrastructure, high environmental and human health risks, and other costs." [56,57]. Energy has thus become an important issue not only related to climate change mitigation but also to high costs of living in the North.…”

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“…There is a growing interest in alternative energy sources that are suitable for off-grid operation, such as solar and wind [58]. However, there are also limitations, such as financial subsidies of fossil fuels for energy generation, large costs of renewable projects, and insufficient financial incentives [56,57]. The ASI framework does not include attention to energy access (although plans for future updating and adjustments to the ASI indicator set will include attention to this) and it was not specifically highlighted in our own empirical material.…”

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Making Regional Sense of Global Sustainable Development Indicators for the Arctic

Nilsson

Larsen

2020

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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

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“…Previous research has indicated several structural challenges—environmental, locational, and institutional—that obstruct sustainable NRM in the Arctic. These ranged from political deadlock, to harsh terrain and weather conditions—all of which make building infrastructure exceedingly difficult—to downplaying the concerns of native people (Anderson, 2008; Clement et al, 2013; Mortensen et al, 2017). Participants demonstrated how ongoing communicative practices—discursive closure, othering, and tension framing—shaped these challenges.…”

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“…Conflict continues, however, among state, federal, and native actors over sovereignty loss, reneged promises to the tribes, and economics-versus-environmentalism. The pronounced effects of climate change in the region (e.g., permafrost thawing, coastal erosion, melting sea ice) have prompted new tensions (Mortensen et al, 2017; Sovacool, 2008). For instance, President Obama’s 2015 ban on drilling on NWR lands, but allowing offshore exploration, angered both environmentalist and pro-extraction actors.…”

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“…Moreover, this study offers insight into the political economies that underlie NRM and suggests best practices for fragile ecosystems like the Arctic. Despite severe environmental changes in the circumpolar region (e.g., coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, melting sea ice), state and federal NRM policies have not kept pace (Clement, Bengston, & Kelly, 2013; Mortensen, Hansen, & Shestakov, 2017). A legacy of colonialism, discrimination against Alaska natives, and economic domination by Big Oil have often obstructed meaningful NRM (Anderson, 2008; Sovacool, 2008).…”

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Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices

Mitra

2018

Management Communication Quarterly

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This study advances a theoretical framework of sustainable organizing, grounded in the communicative practices of key organizational actors. I situate this study in the enactment of natural resource management (NRM) in the U.S. Arctic, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework hinges on four iterative sensitizing conceptsstakeholder embeddedness in local-global ecologies, constitutive role of d/ Discourse, rhetoric-practice tensions, and systemic risk-resilience-that guided data analysis. Findings revealed that participants communicatively constituted NRM in terms of structural challenges and best practices. NRM's structural challenges were rooted in discursive closure of key perspectives through past events, routinization, and design; othering of important stakeholders; and framing institutional tension as conflict. Nevertheless, participants emphasized key decision-making, relationship-building, and riskmanaging clusters that enabled NRM best practices benefiting both human and natural stakeholders. The empirical study thus extends the proposed theoretical framework by demonstrating context-specific practices that enact sustainable organizing.

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Sustainable Energy Policies and Programs in Yakutia

Gritsenko

2020

Discourses on Sustainability

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How three key factors are driving and challenging implementation of renewable energy systems in remote Arctic communities

Cited by 23 publications

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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

Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices

Sustainable Energy Policies and Programs in Yakutia

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