Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia

Obydenkova, Anastassia

doi:10.1080/14631377.2022.2028478

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“…However, despite the employment of "environmental discourse," and legally promised support to Indigenous peoples (Russian Federation, 1999), there were no efficient implementations of specific policies for sustainable development or of Indigenous people's rights to land and resources, self-determination, and culture in their homeland in the Arctic (Garbis et al, 2023;Stepanov et al, 2023;Vladimirova, 2023b). The important role of legitimacy and rhetorical tools in autocratic regionalism has been studied elsewhere (Obydenkova, 2022b;. This article contributes an innovative analysis of autocracies-led regional governance focusing on the nexus of state-imposed militarization and society in the Arctic as well as the most recent socio-political transformations in this environmentally fragile region.…”

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Continuous Militarization as a Mode of Governance of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic

Vladimirova

2024

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This article analyzes ethnographic data that shows long-term militarization forms a significant part of state governance of the population and environment in the Arctic. Kola Peninsula, the study region, is a borderland with the West and has since the 1950s been a heavily militarized area. Applying insights from research on militarization, subjectivities, materiality, borders, and regionalism in autocratic regimes, I show how militarization shapes the environment and the lives of Indigenous reindeer herders. Despite discourses of demilitarization in the 1990s, Kola Peninsula did not move away from militarization as part of governance. The article explores what I call <em>continuous militarization </em>by engaging with two phenomena: (a) fencing off territories for military use and infrastructure, and (b) nuclear pollution. It discusses the interrelations of materiality and knowledge in maintaining Indigenous subjectivities and culture in line with the objectives of militarization, and shows how Russia uses participation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region to support the objectives of militarization and justify them to the local population. The article finds that militarization is employed by the authorities to solidify the current autocratic regime among residents in the Arctic.

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Continuous Militarization as a Mode of Governance of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic

Vladimirova

2024

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“…This thematic issue advances our understanding of the changes and challenges that have taken place in ARG, from historical and modern perspectives, by focusing on different aspects of environmental governance (e.g., the management of marine living resources and seal populations), IP, and nation-states (e.g., Russia and China), thus contributing to comparative environmental studies (Demchuk et al, 2022;Hanaček & Martinez-Alier, 2022;Libman & Obydenkova, 2014;Obydenkova, 2022d;Tosun & Shyrokykh, 2022). A few overlapping themes reappear across some of the articles: the role of historical lessons, the importance of inclusiveness in environmental governance, and the role of diffusion and learning across borders.…”

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Arctic Regional Governance: Actors and Transformations

Obydenkova

2024

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This thematic issue analyzes recent and ongoing changes in Arctic regional governance in new geopolitical, security, and socio-economic contexts. It places current challenges in the Arctic within a historical context, aspiring to identify solutions, and enhances our understanding of modern processes. It presents three perspectives on Arctic regional governance: the first focuses on the challenges to Arctic environmental governance (marine living resources and Arctic seals); the second looks at the role of large nation-states, such as Russia and China, in Arctic regional governance; and the third one analyses the challenges posed to Indigenous people—in Russia, Finland, and Canada. Many overlapping themes are developed in the articles: historical lessons (e.g., from the Cold War period), challenges to the inclusiveness of environmental governance, and the role of cross-border diffusion and learning. New challenges to Arctic regional governance in the context of the war in Ukraine affect environmental governance, international scientific collaboration, and the lives of Indigenous people. Yet we know little about the depth of these recent transformations. This thematic issue aims to fill in at least some of the outlined gaps.

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“…Despite the growing policy attention to the Arctic and the climate change taking place in the region, Russia seemed to have been inefficient to develop a viable strategy coping with this challenge in the region (Obydenkova 2022c). It may be partly explained by priorities of economic and security benefits, i.e.…”

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“…Underestimation of climate risks in the Arctic policy of the Russian Federation can be explained by the general neglect of the climate factor in long-term planning of Russia's development for several decades (Kokorin and Korppoo 2013;Obydenkova 2022c;Makarov 2022), though in recent years Russia's climate policy, especially its mitigationrelated dimension, has boosted. As a participant of the Paris Agreement, Russia pledged to tackle the climate problem and approved its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2020, which implies that, by 2030, Russia will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30% from 1990 level.…”

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Climate change and challenges to sustainable development in the Russian Arctic

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The Arctic region is one of the most exposed to the global climate change. Russia accounts for more than a half of the whole Arctic territory and population and allocates most of the economic activity of the region. From the Soviet time till now, the Arctic region also accounts for a substantial share of Russia's wealth. The article analyzes often ambiguous knowledge on climate change implications for the long-term economic development of the Russian Arctic. Based on the review of the key policy documents issued in Russia and ongoing and planned development programs, the study aspires to contribute more clarity on Russia's standing in the Arctic region. We aim to analyze the convergence of Russian climate and Arctic policies boosting the synergies between each other. The paper discovers, among other issues, the climate change adaptation priorities in policy areas aimed at minimizing net costs of climate change. While policies rhetorically aim at contributing to resilient and sustainable growth in the Russian North, they remain under-developed in accounting for multiple climate-related risks. Our analysis suggests that a comprehensive framework of Arctic policy measures should be centered around climate change as a core factor underlying the future of the region and should encompass two main policy dimensions: (a) strengthening the knowledge base on climate change, the adjunct risks, and emerging opportunities in the region and (b) developing the system for climate change risk management and resilience building ensuring that regional diversity and climatic and socioeconomic features of various locations are taken into serious account.

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Strategies and challenges of sustainable development in Eurasia

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Continuous Militarization as a Mode of Governance of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic

Continuous Militarization as a Mode of Governance of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic

Arctic Regional Governance: Actors and Transformations

Climate change and challenges to sustainable development in the Russian Arctic

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