Environmental Vulnerability Modeling in the Extensively Urbanized Arctic Center Integrating Remote Sensing, Landscape Mapping, and Local Knowledge

• Main Authors: Gadal, Sébastien, Zakharov, Moisei, Kamicaityte, Jurate, Savvinova, Antonina, Danilov, Yuri
• Other Authors: North-Eastern Federal University, 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), Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), European Geosciences Union, CNRS PEPS INEE RICOCHET, FMSH-RFBR OSAMA, EGU, ANR-15-CE22-0006,PUR,Pôles URbains(2015)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Environmental vulnerability; Spatial Modeling; Urban centers; Remote sensing; Mapping; Local knowledge; Landscape; Arctic; Russia; [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; [INFO.INFO-TI]Computer Science [cs]/Image Processing [eess.IV]; Yakutsk; Climate change; lena river; permafrost; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03201641; https://hal.science/hal-03201641/document; https://hal.science/hal-03201641/file/EGU21-16268-print.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16268

International audience Arctic extensively urbanized centers are subject to the impact of many negative environmental phenomena progressing in terms of global climate change and regional development in Yakutia in the context of poor and missing databases. For this reason, the modeling of the risk exposures is based on combining the remote sensing, and local knowledge of inhabitants. According to the occurrences of the natural hazards, the territorial management and the decision-making system require the identification and assessment of natural risks to which the rural populations localized in the towns and villages are exposed, for example, in the urban center of Khamagatta located at 70km to the North from Yakutsk near the Lena River. The main environmental vulnerability exposures are seasonal: springtime floods between May and June, the forest fires from June to August, the cyclic permafrost degradation, and river erosion impacts.