Post-Soviet Period Changes in Resource Utilization and Their Impact on Population Dynamics: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

• Main Authors: Litvinenko, Tamara Vitalyevna, Kumo, Kazuhiro
• Other Authors: Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Economic Research 2017
• Subjects: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; indigenous people; non-indigenous people; population dynamics; natural resource utilization; human settlements; intra-regional differences; non-renewable mineral resources; renewable natural resources; Chukotka
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10086/28761

This study examines changes that have occurred in the resource utilization sector and the impact of these changes on population dynamics in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug during the post-Soviet period. This paper sheds light on the sorts of population-dynamics-related differences that have emerged in the region and how these differences relate to the use of natural resources and the ethnic composition of the population. Through this study it was shown that changes have tended to be small in local areas where indigenous peoples who have engaged in traditional natural resource use for a large proportion of the population while changes have been relatively large in areas where the proportion of non-indigenous people is high and the mining industry has developed. 28 p.