Norwegian and Russian settlements on Svalbard: An analysis of demographic and socio-economic trends

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Middleton, Alexandra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Longyearbyen; Svalbard Archipelago; Norway; Barentsburg; Climate change; Ny Ålesund; Polar Record; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247423000050; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247423000050

Abstract The Svalbard archipelago is a centre of global research on climate change and also an example of a rapidly changing Arctic area with tourism replacing the traditional mining industry. We compared the different development paths of the Norwegian (Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund) and Russian sett...