Metropolisation, urbanisation and the impacts of climate change in the Siberian Arctic. Can we really talk about adaptation?

• Main Author: Gadal, Sébastien
• Other Authors: Aix Marseille Université (AMU), 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), Paris Londron University of Salzburg, Z-GIS, UNIGIS
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2024
• Subjects: Metropolisation dynamics; Globalisation; Territorial development; Remote sensing monitoring; Spatial modeling and visualization; Geo-simulation; Risk exposure modeling; Siberia; Yakutsk metropolis; Arctic & sub-Arctic; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environment and Society; [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; Arctic; Yakutsk; Climate change; Global warming; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04607028

International audience In this seminar, we will present the remote sensing and geosimulation approaches that have been put in place to study the massive territorial transformation processes affecting the Siberian Arctic in a dual context: global warming and globalisation. Models combining spatial imagery, field measurements, massive data processing and simulations have been set up to map the dynamics of permafrost, forest fires, urbanisations, risk expositions, etc., and their consequences. The impacts of permafrost and debacle flooding should play a role in territorial adaptation processes and planning. But this is not the case. Other adaptation logics have been put in place.