Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states

McCauley, Darren; Pettigrew, Kerry A.; Bennett, Mia M.; Todd, Iain; Wood-Donnelly, Corine

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102480

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“…Many studies have focused on the issues of sustainable development in the Arctic [3][4][5]86,87,[98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105]. However, it is not possible to define a single system of measures allowing to move away from the resource and raw material model.…”

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Sustainable Development of Mining Regions in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Kirsanova,

Nevskaya,

Raikhlin

2024

Sustainability

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The Arctic’s specific conditions require increased attention to natural and human capital. Therefore, implementing the principles of the sustainable development concept, balancing economic, social, and environmental goals is of paramount importance. Mining is at the heart of the strategy for the socio-economic development of Russia’s Arctic territories. This study’s objective is topical: to justify measures lifting the restrictions on sustainable development of AZRF (the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation) mining regions. The authors propose a method to identify AZRF regions where mining determines the socio-economic development level (Komi Republic, Nenets Autonomous District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Yakutia, and Chukotka Autonomous District). The multi-factor regression analysis conducted confirms the hypothesis that living standards and achievement of social standards in the AZRF mining regions depend on the income and fiscal capacity levels, which makes the state more responsible for the region’s development. The authors prove the expediency of reconsidering the proportions of rental income redistributed between the budgets of the AZRF mining regions and the federal budget in favor of the former, until migration and natural population growth become positive and reach the target indicators of strategies of socio-economic development. The study’s results can be used to justify the state policy while elaborating strategies for AZRF development.

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Sustainable Development of Mining Regions in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Kirsanova,

Nevskaya,

Raikhlin

2024

Sustainability

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“…This emerges not only in Arctic governance reaffirming the primacy of states from the culture of an international system founded on classical imperialism, but also in that it is the interests and frequently the national interests and needs of those with power which are the most widely communicated and actioned issues. This also includes subsuming the interests of environmental protection to the culture of capital accumulation and economic development and deprioritizing climate governance over resource exploitation (McCauley et al, 2022;Wood-Donnelly and Bartels, 2022).…”

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Responsibility of and for Structural (In)Justice in Arctic Governance

Wood-Donnelly¹

2023

Arctic Justice

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Evaluating normative capacity through Arctic environmental governance

Wood-Donnelly

2023

Climatic Change

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International cooperation in the Arctic is largely operationalised through environmental governance in a constellation of institutions that promote scientific knowledge of the Arctic region. While the Arctic Council is placed at the centre of this network for environmental protection and resource management across the region, other institutions play critical roles in facilitating scientific knowledge production that promotes the security and development of the region and its resources across national boundaries. Evaluating the role of environmental protection in Arctic governance within models of science diplomacy, this paper argues that the assumption of environmental responsibility should act as a normative operator for Arctic environmental governance, shaping the relations between actors in this regional network and legitimising decision-making by Arctic states as they socially construct the mechanisms and regional exceptionalism of Arctic governance. However, environmental responsibility falls short of acting as a normative operator for environmental protection that also prevents the impact of climate change on the Arctic environment, excluding its function as an overarching normative operator for the international system, reducing state legitimacy for regional decision-making in extra-territorial spaces.

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Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states

Cited by 14 publications

References 64 publications

Sustainable Development of Mining Regions in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Sustainable Development of Mining Regions in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Responsibility of and for Structural (In)Justice in Arctic Governance

Evaluating normative capacity through Arctic environmental governance

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