A joint French-Russian approach on the issues of human security and adaptation of global warming in the Russian Siberian Arctic. Example of permafrost, risk exposure, and urban development in Yakutia

• Main Authors: Gadal, Sébastien, Zakharov, Moisei, Ivanovich
• Other Authors: Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Étude 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), North-Eastern Federal University, Saint-Petersburg State University, Ocean University of China, FMSH-RFFI Development of an Optimal Human Security Model for The Arctic, CNRS PEPS RICOCHET
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: Human security; Territorial Development; Global Warming; Environmental issues; Adaptation of populations; Human infrastructures; Permafrost landscape changes; Scientific cooperation; Risk exposure modeling; Arctic; Russia; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; [SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation; Global warming; permafrost; Yakutia; Якути*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03038133

International audience The importance, or rather the multiplicity of human security issues in the Russian Arctic is fundamental for the development of this region, whose growing economic significance with environmental problems linked to the adaptation of populations. Despite the distance, the direct impacts of global warming in the Russian Arctic are significant in France and in Western Europe. For example, the evolution of permafrost landscapes (methane, CO2 emissions, macro viruses, etc.) have directly affected human infrastructures in Yakutia Arctic and sub-Arctic zones, then at the regional level in Western Europe. Scientific cooperation makes sense because of the common issues. The built cooperation is based on the complementarity and cross-mobilization of methodologies and knowledge. This has resulted in significant advances in modeling risk exposure and the consequences for urban development in terms of understanding geophysical processes and for the development of the Russian Arctic territories in Yakutia. The research is carried out within the framework of the Franco-Russian project of FMSH-RFFI.