The three waves of Arctic urbanisation. Drivers, evolutions, prospects

Laruelle, Marlène

doi:10.1017/s0032247419000081

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“…The issue of sustainably developing in an Arctic city has demonstrated an acute importance in the conditions of changing climate and economic uncertainties many northern urban places have faced since the beginning of the 21st century [1,26]. A number of case studies both attempted to apply globalized sustainability approaches to understand Arctic sustainable development pathways (e.g., [8][9][10]27,28]) and pursued uncovering Arctic-specific characteristics of urban sustainability [29][30][31]. Environmental [32][33][34], economic [15,35,36], social [37,38], political [39], cultural [40] and other aspects have been brought to light to a considerable extent.…”

Section: Sustainable Development In Urban Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, many Arctic cities in the Soviet Union were established around extractive industries (for example, Norilsk, Vorkuta, Nadym, Naryan-Mar, etc. [10,78]). Extraction of non-renewable resources constitutes the economic base of these cities and seems to contradict the principles of sustainable development.…”

Section: Sustainable Development In the Russian Urban Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although close to threequarters of the Arctic population resides in cities and towns [6], with the majority living in the Russian Arctic (a home for two dozen settlements with more than 100,000 people [7]), the knowledge about Arctic urban sustainability is quite limited. The growing literature in the last few years (e.g., [8][9][10] articulated the central role of Arctic urban communities in defining the future of the rapidly changing Arctic in respect to the sustainability of both human and natural systems). Yet, the understanding of urban sustainability in its relationship with urban development policies and programs at the municipal level in the Arctic is still rudimentary.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Municipal Programs and Sustainable Development in Russian Northern Cities: Case Studies of Murmansk and Magadan

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Cities play an important role in promoting sustainable development. In the Arctic, most particularly in Russia, cities concentrate the majority of residents and economic activity. Sustainable development initiatives are often deployed through programs that operate at different spatial and jurisdictional scales. While national and regional policies and programs have received some attention, the understanding of urban development policies and programs at the municipal level in the Arctic is still limited. This paper presents a case study of municipal sustainable development programming in Arctic cities and examines municipal programs in two larger Russian northern cities: Murmansk and Magadan. While both are regional capitals and the most populous urban settlements in their regions, the cities have district historical, economic and geographical contexts. Through the content analysis of municipal programs active in 2018, we aim to understand, systematize and compare the visions and programmatic actions of the two municipalities on sustainable development. Ten sustainable development programming categories were identified for using a UN SDG-inspired approach modeled after the City of Whitehorse, Canada. While the programs in Magadan and Murmansk are quite different, we observed striking commonalities that characterize the national, regional and local models of urban sustainable development policy making in the Russian Arctic.

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Section: Sustainable Development In Urban Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainable Development In the Russian Urban Arcticmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Finally, Arctic cities are relatively recent arrivals in the Arctic region and overall. They can grow and decline rapidly as their regional economies experience waves of expansion and contraction [42,43]. Because of their relatively young age, urban infrastructure is often limited and inadequate to serve the population.…”

Section: Map 1 Arctic Cities Included In Our Analysismentioning

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Measuring Progress toward Urban Sustainability: Do Global Measures Work for Arctic Cities?

Berman

Orttung

2020

Sustainability

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The International Organization for Standardization recently responded to a growing global interest in cities by developing an index for measuring urban sustainability (ISO 37120). We address how well this standard applies to Arctic cities, and potential modifications that might improve its performance. After briefly discussing the goals of sustainability indicators, we examine the extent to which Arctic cities’ remote location, cold and changing climate, and thin, largely resource-based economies may create different sustainability challenges. We then critically examine the content of ISO 37120 and the context in which it was created. We place the index within a broader discussion of urban sustainability indicators and examine the extent to which it really addresses sustainability. We then analyze how well the ISO 37120 accounts for the characteristic features of Arctic cities that produce unique sustainability challenges. Our findings show that only half of ISO 37120′s 128 indicators actually measure future-oriented concerns. We suggest that, while the ISO 37120 may be a useful starting point in quantifying Arctic urban sustainability, the index should only be used as a foundation for a more in-depth analysis. To better represent Arctic cities, the ISO 37120 would need to include indicators that situate cities within their regional contexts, addressing both remoteness and the underlying basis of the Arctic city economy. The index should also measure the role of Indigenous populations, and chart the extent to which cities are working to increase levels of sustainability.

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“…As a result, almost the entire history of the USSR passed under the sign of an active policy of complex development of the Arctic regions (Karpov, 2016). It was carried out at a rapid pace (Laruelle, 2019;Timoshenko, 2013b), and as early as the 1930s, the following provision was formulated: "The development of the North fully follows from the immediate objectives of the development of the USSR national economy" (Slavin, 1987, pp. 191-192).…”

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Assessment of the intensity and directions of population movement in the regions of the Arctic zone of Russia in 1991–2000

Korovkin

Синица

2021

Polar Record

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Socio-economic transformations greatly worsened the state of the Arctic regions for residents, which led to a decrease in the population due to the significant migration outflow. Using the balance of the population movement based on data from Rosstat, we estimated the intensity of migratory movement (relocation to permanent residence) and the natural movement of the population, along with the directions of incoming movement and attrition of the population to the general population dynamics in 1991–2000 in the regions of the Arctic zone of Russia. The analysis showed that the population was characterised by greater mobility compared with the population of the country as a whole. The attrition of the population was greater than the incoming population, and the regions of the Arctic zone of Russia were the donors of the population for the rest of Russia.

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The three waves of Arctic urbanisation. Drivers, evolutions, prospects

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Municipal Programs and Sustainable Development in Russian Northern Cities: Case Studies of Murmansk and Magadan

Municipal Programs and Sustainable Development in Russian Northern Cities: Case Studies of Murmansk and Magadan

Measuring Progress toward Urban Sustainability: Do Global Measures Work for Arctic Cities?

Assessment of the intensity and directions of population movement in the regions of the Arctic zone of Russia in 1991–2000

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