Measuring the sustainability of Russia’s Arctic cities
How sustainable are Russia’s Arctic cities? Russia’s far north metropolises are distinctive from other Arctic cities in terms of their large size, efforts to conquer nature, and big business’ impact on the urban landscape. The Russian Arctic cities’ Soviet-era design gave them compact and dense popu...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8497677 2023-05-15T14:34:29+02:00 Measuring the sustainability of Russia’s Arctic cities Orttung, Robert W. Anisimov, Oleg Badina, Svetlana Burns, Charlene Cho, Leena DiNapoli, Benjamin Jull, Matthew Shaiman, Melissa Shapovalova, Ksenia Silinsky, Leah Zhang, Emily Zhiltcova, Yelena 2020-10-14 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497677/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33058007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01395-9 en eng Springer Netherlands http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497677/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33058007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01395-9 © Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2020, corrected publication 2021 Ambio Siberian Environmental Change Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01395-9 2022-11-06T01:30:31Z How sustainable are Russia’s Arctic cities? Russia’s far north metropolises are distinctive from other Arctic cities in terms of their large size, efforts to conquer nature, and big business’ impact on the urban landscape. The Russian Arctic cities’ Soviet-era design gave them compact and dense population structures. Such features led to many benefits for achieving sustainability, including more efficient energy use, a larger number of hospital beds, more numerous cultural amenities, and greater access to public transportation. However, Arctic cities outside of Russia have made progress in their own pursuit of sustainability through on-going investments, business development, educational resources, and solid waste management. By teasing out these distinctions, this article highlights urban features that make it possible for the cities to adapt to changes in the global environment and economy. In doing so, it provides the first multidisciplinary, comparative analysis of 46 Arctic cities employing historical, remote sensing, and quantitative methods. It demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of the world’s Arctic cities in their quest for sustainability and points to where they can learn from each other in adopting best practices. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-020-01395-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Text Arctic PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Ambio 50 11 2090 2103 |
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How sustainable are Russia’s Arctic cities? Russia’s far north metropolises are distinctive from other Arctic cities in terms of their large size, efforts to conquer nature, and big business’ impact on the urban landscape. The Russian Arctic cities’ Soviet-era design gave them compact and dense population structures. Such features led to many benefits for achieving sustainability, including more efficient energy use, a larger number of hospital beds, more numerous cultural amenities, and greater access to public transportation. However, Arctic cities outside of Russia have made progress in their own pursuit of sustainability through on-going investments, business development, educational resources, and solid waste management. By teasing out these distinctions, this article highlights urban features that make it possible for the cities to adapt to changes in the global environment and economy. In doing so, it provides the first multidisciplinary, comparative analysis of 46 Arctic cities employing historical, remote sensing, and quantitative methods. It demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of the world’s Arctic cities in their quest for sustainability and points to where they can learn from each other in adopting best practices. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s13280-020-01395-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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