Regional futures nested in global structures

Nilsson, Annika E.; Eklund, Niklas; Jürisoo, Marie; Klimenko, Ekaterina V.; Watt, Lize-Marié van der

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“…Pajala, too, suffered from a constantly declining tax base (Fig. 1), having public administration, tourism, and manufacturing as its main economic sectors (Nilsson et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Mining Project Of Pajala–kolari 2004–2014mentioning

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“…Mining commenced as a greenfield venture on the Swedish side in 2012; after but 2 years, the company went bankrupt in 2014 (Poelzer & Ejdemo, 2018). Having welcomed a large-scale mining project as the last opportunity to redirect declining population and employment trends, Pajala went through a speedy boom-and-bust cycle (Nilsson, Carlsen, & van der Watt, 2015; Poelzer & Ejdemo, 2018; Bjørgo, 2018a, b). In Kolari, the unrealised plans had awoken the memories of the past blossoming as a mining town.…”

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The belief in mining: How imageries of other mines may brighten Arctic minescapes

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2021

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The article discusses how promising outlooks and favourable memories of past and distant mining ventures are employed in the view of a mine in spe. The study utilises interview quotes and written narratives pertaining to a case of mine development in Swedish Pajala and neighbouring Finnish Kolari (the Northland project 2004–2014), located above the Arctic Circle, for explicating this. Its theoretical framework includes the concept of minescape and the ideas of past presences and anticipated futures, which support capturing (the temporality of) the sociocultural and discursive dimensions of mining alongside with its physicality. Previous and distant experiences with mines appeared readily abstracted and brought into the current debate, forgetting about contexts, that is, about any historical or geographical contingencies. This kind of temporal and spatial referencing is seen to represent an imaginative practice which, as it is argued, gains an enhanced role in tandem with the increasing market dependency and volatility of the extractive business. By attending to the meaning-making based on remembering, and forgetting, in the context of experiences made with mining in the past or elsewhere, the article contributes to our understanding of the present-day role of mining heritage.

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“…Pajala, too, suffered from a constantly declining tax base (Fig. 1), having public administration, tourism, and manufacturing as its main economic sectors (Nilsson et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Mining Project Of Pajala–kolari 2004–2014mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The belief in mining: How imageries of other mines may brighten Arctic minescapes

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2021

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“…A growing number of studies have employed the narratives of the global SSPs to develop extended SSPs for specific regions and/or sectors. So far, extended SSPs include extended SSPs of urban and population development worldwide [ 40 , 41 ], in coastal areas [ 42 , 43 ], and in large cities [ 44 ], extended SSPs for health [ 45 , 46 ], for the water sector [ 47 , 48 ], for fisheries [ 49 ], for the forestry sector [ 50 ], and for food security worldwide [ 51 ], in West-Africa [ 52 ], and in South-East Asia [ 53 ], and extended SSPs for specific regions, e.g., the Barents region [ 54 ], the Arctic [ 55 ], Tokyo [ 56 ], Iberia [ 57 ], Scotland [ 57 ], the US [ 58 ], and Europe [ 5 , 59 ].…”

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Projecting Drivers of Human Vulnerability under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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2018

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The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are the new set of alternative futures of societal development that inform global and regional climate change research. They have the potential to foster the integration of socioeconomic scenarios within assessments of future climate-related health impacts. To date, such assessments have primarily superimposed climate scenarios on current socioeconomic conditions only. Until now, the few assessments of future health risks that employed the SSPs have focused on future human exposure—i.e., mainly future population patterns—, neglecting future human vulnerability. This paper first explores the research gaps—mainly linked to the paucity of available projections—that explain such a lack of consideration of human vulnerability under the SSPs. It then highlights the need for projections of socioeconomic variables covering the wide range of determinants of human vulnerability, available at relevant spatial and temporal scales, and accounting for local specificities through sectoral and regional extended versions of the global SSPs. Finally, this paper presents two innovative methods of obtaining and computing such socioeconomic projections under the SSPs—namely the scenario matching approach and an approach based on experts’ elicitation and correlation analyses—and applies them to the case of Europe. They offer a variety of possibilities for practical application, producing projections at sub-national level of various drivers of human vulnerability such as demographic and social characteristics, urbanization, state of the environment, infrastructure, health status, and living arrangements. Both the innovative approaches presented in this paper and existing methods—such as the spatial disaggregation of existing projections and the use of sectoral models—show great potential to enhance the availability of relevant projections of determinants of human vulnerability. Assessments of future climate-related health impacts should thus rely on these methods to account for future human vulnerability—under varying levels of socioeconomic development—and to explore its influence on future health risks under different degrees of climate change.

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Regional futures nested in global structures

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The belief in mining: How imageries of other mines may brighten Arctic minescapes

The belief in mining: How imageries of other mines may brighten Arctic minescapes

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