The changing role of environmental information in Arctic marine governance

Lamers, Machiel; Pristupa, A.O.; Amelung, Bas; Knol, Maaike

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2015.08.015

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“…The rise of a diversity of state and non-state actors in Arctic natural resource politics and governance is widely acknowledged (Lamers et al 2016;Duyck 2012;Duyck 2015). Zoning is a strategy to cope with competing claims on Arctic natural resources by a plurality of actors.…”

Section: Acquiring Authority: Legitimacy Through (Scientific) Informamentioning

confidence: 99%

Can zoning resolve nature use conflicts? The case of the Numto Nature Park in the Russian Arctic

Pristupa

Tysiachniouk

Mol

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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In the Russian Arctic, nature protection is important to preserve valuable ecosystems and indigenous lifestyles against the rapidly expanding oil and gas activities. In this regard, zoning legitimately balances influential stakeholders versus weak ones, and can leverage stakeholders to exercise their rights. This study explores how various stakeholders employ zoning in the Numto Nature Park in the oil-rich Russian KhantyMansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra to advance their interests and how they use scientific information to achieve this. Through stakeholder interviews, analysis of electronic media and literature review, we conclude that a participatory and sciencebased zoning exercise stimulates the necessary deliberation. However, legal ambiguity, deficient law implementation and informal practices limit the zoning's potential to balance stakeholders' interests. All the stakeholders calculatingly used scientific information to legitimize their own ambitions, activities and claims. Hence, zoning and the underlying information claims should be interpreted as both a resource and a battleground in nature-use conflicts.

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Section: Acquiring Authority: Legitimacy Through (Scientific) Informamentioning

confidence: 99%

Can zoning resolve nature use conflicts? The case of the Numto Nature Park in the Russian Arctic

Pristupa

Tysiachniouk

Mol

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…These characteristics provide challenges for collective action [16] as there is a limited monitoring capability and control over the behaviour of individual operators and also impeded coordination of action. Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) lead to rapid changes within the tourism industry, and prior studies indicate that the application of ICT can support the sustainable management of tourism sites [15,17,18].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Managing High Arctic Tourism Sites: A Collective Action Perspective

2017

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Sustainable management of nature-based tourism sites is a pertinent issue in vulnerable Arctic environments. Arctic tourism operators often act collectively to protect their common interests of ensuring the sustainability of tourism sites. Nowadays, information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly used to support these collaborative efforts, but the remoteness and risks associated with Arctic tourism operations challenge the success of such collective action. This study explores the use of ICT as a management tool for Arctic tourism sites to ensure their sustained quality. Drawing on a case study of an expedition cruise operators' network in Svalbard, we explore how the use of ICT affects collective action and sustainable management of tourism sites. Our findings show that, through increased noticeability, the creation of artificial proximity and the development of new management practices, ICT can help to overcome the challenges for collective action that are posed by the Arctic environment. The use of ICT results in changes in a network's relational and normative structures, which can as much add to as detract from the success of collective action. Our study indicates that the successful application of ICT depends on a high level of social capital, in particular norms, to guide interactions between ICT and network actors.

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“…Satellite observation shows a decreasing Arctic sea ice extent at an annual rate of about 4.73% per decade and a faster rate of 13.56% per decade in September for the period of 1979-2017, calculated using the Arctic sea ice index obtained from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (see data section for details). The decreasing Arctic sea ice not only affects the local environment and 25 community, i.e., brings opportunities and challenges to indigenous people (Forbes et al, 2016;Lamers et al, 2016), but also has strong feedback on other components of the climate system, i.e., increases the frequency of abnormal weather and climate in the mid-latitude of the north hemisphere and influences the thermohaline circulation (Budikova, 2009;Levermann The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org /10.5194/tc-2018-108 Manuscript under review for journal The Cryosphere Discussion started: 9 July 2018 c Author(s) 2018. CC BY 4.0 License.…”

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The potential of sea ice leads as a predictor for seasonal Arctic sea ice extent prediction

Zhang

Cheng

Liu

et al. 2018

Preprint

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Abstract. The Arctic sea ice extent throughout the melt season is closely associated with initial sea ice state in winter and spring. Sea ice leads are important sites of energy fluxes in the Arctic Ocean, which may play an important role in the 10 evolution of Arctic sea ice. In this study, we examine the potential of sea ice leads as a predictor for seasonal Arctic sea ice extent forecast using a recently developed daily sea ice leads product retrieved from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. Our results show that July pan-Arctic sea ice extent can be accurately predicted from the area of sea ice leads integrated from mid-winter to late spring. However, the predictive skills for August and September pan-Arctic sea ice extent are very low. When the area of sea ice leads integrated in the Atlantic and central and west Siberian sector of the 15 Arctic is used, it has a significantly strong relationship (high predictability) with both July and August sea ice extent in the Atlantic and central and west Siberian sector of the Arctic. Thus, the realistic representation of sea ice leads (e.g., the areal coverage) in numerical prediction systems might improve the skill of forecast in the Arctic region.

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The changing role of environmental information in Arctic marine governance

Cited by 23 publications

References 43 publications

Can zoning resolve nature use conflicts? The case of the Numto Nature Park in the Russian Arctic

Can zoning resolve nature use conflicts? The case of the Numto Nature Park in the Russian Arctic

The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Managing High Arctic Tourism Sites: A Collective Action Perspective

The potential of sea ice leads as a predictor for seasonal Arctic sea ice extent prediction

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