POST-SOVIET PERIOD CHANGES IN RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND THEIR IMPACT ON POPULATION DYNAMICS IN CHUKOTKA AUTONOMOUS OKRUG (RUSSIA)

• Published in: GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
• Main Authors: T. Litvinenko, K. Kumo
• Other Authors: Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Ministry ofEducation, Science and Culture in Japan (# 26245034), a grant-in-aid from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Foundationfor International Cooperation (2017), and the Joint Usage and Research CentreProgram by the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (2017), Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Geographical Society 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; Arctic; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug; Polar Geography; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/296; https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2017-10-3-66-86

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 (Russia) during the post-Soviet period. This paper discuss topics of population-dynamics-related differences that have emerged in the region and impacts of these differences on 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.