Strategy for the sustainable development of indigenous peoples of the Arctic: problems and prospects in the context of new industrial development

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Romanova, O D, Romanov, P G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012182; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012182/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012182

Abstract The depletion of natural mineral resources in traditional places of production entails a gradual shift in the industrial exploitation of new deposits in previously inaccessible northern territories. An example of this is the expansion of hydrocarbon production in the northern seas, the gradual movement of the mining industries of diamonds, tin, gold and other minerals to higher northern latitudes. The development of electronics, the hyperbolic expansion of digitalization all over the world entail a corresponding increase in the consumption of raw materials and materials with unique properties by the electronic industry. In turn, this leads to the search and development of previously inaccessible, economically extremely costly, unique in their locations deposits of rare earth metals. The history of the development of mineral deposits in the northern territories in the former Soviet Union has demonstrated the profound social, environmental and economic consequences of the erroneous approaches of those years. Complexity in the development of the northern territories should consist in taking into account and implementing the social, environmental and economic aspects (directions) of industrial development and preventing their imbalance. Previously, production interests prevailed, mining was carried out in an extremely costly, inefficient, extensive way. The state approach of the Soviet Union consisted in arranging a full-fledged new city or settlement. The economic consequences are also very vast and significant. It turns out that on one territory there are two models: the first is an industrial model, and the second is a model of traditional residence of local residents. The task is to harmonize the interaction of these two models, which actually exist at the present time, and create such new Strategies for the socio-economic development of the regions of the Arctic zone, where this harmonization was originally provided.