Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities : : Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change /

Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities : : Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change / / ed. by Robert W. Orttung.

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Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy product...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Anisimov, Oleg,
Graybill, Jessica K.,
Heleniak, Timothy,
Kokorev, Vasily,
Laruelle, Marlene,
Nuykina, Elena,
Orttung, Robert W.,
Pelyasov, Alexander N.,
Reisser, Colin,
Rowe, Elana Wilson,
Saxinger, Gertrude,
Shiklomanov, Nikolay,
Stephenson, Scott R.,
Streletskiy, Dmitry,
Zamyatina, Nadezhda Yu.,
Öfner, Elisabeth Ö,
HerausgeberIn:
Orttung, Robert W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in the Circumpolar North ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Russia’s Arctic Cities: Recent Evolution and Drivers of Change
  • Section I. Decision Making
  • Chapter 2. The Arctic in Moscow
  • Chapter 3. The Anna Karenina Principle: How to Diversify Monocities
  • Section II. Migration Trends in Russian Arctic Cities
  • Chapter 4. Boom and Bust: Population Change in Russia’s Arctic Cities
  • Chapter 5. Assessing Social Sustainability: Immigration to Russia’s Arctic Cities
  • Chapter 6. The Russian North Connected: The Role of Long-Distance Commute Work for Regional Integration
  • Section III. Climate Change
  • Chapter 7. Cities of the Russian North in the Context of Climate Change
  • Chapter 8. Access to Arctic Urban Areas in Flux: Opportunities and Uncertainties in Transport and Development
  • Chapter 9. Russian Arctic Cities through the Prism of Permafrost
  • Chapter 10. Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Russian Arctic
  • Chapter 11. Conclusion: Drivers of Change
  • Index

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