The Subarctic City: Metropolitisation, Abandoned Towns and Increases of Risk Vulnerabilities

• Main Author: Gadal, Sébastien
• Other Authors: Études des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace (ESPACE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), North-Eastern Federal University, Polar Urban Centers PUR, SPSU
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Subarctic; Metropolisation; Abandoned cities; Sustainable Developement; Globalisation; Risk Exposure; Remote Sensing; Yakutsk; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics; Sakha; Tiksi; Mirnyj; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; lena river; permafrost; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://amu.hal.science/hal-01915731; https://amu.hal.science/hal-01915731/document; https://amu.hal.science/hal-01915731/file/SPSU_SGadal.pdf

International audience Arctic and Subarctic cities and settlements depend of the economic, political and societal changes. In the Siberian arctic and subarctic territories as in Yakutia, the dynamics of urbanisation and un-urbanisation are strong. Abandoned mine’s tows, stable cities (Mirnyj), parti...