Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18440%2F22%3A50019330" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18440/22:50019330 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/changing-svalbard-tracing-interrelated-socioeconomic-and-environmental-change-in-remote-arctic-settlements/8AD1AF623CC2BA2B5697138AF92672B4" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/changing-svalbard-tracing-interrelated-socioeconomic-and-environmental-change-in-remote-arctic-settlements/8AD1AF623CC2BA2B5697138AF92672B4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247422000213" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0032247422000213</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements
Original language description
The archipelago of Svalbard is a good example of an Arctic locale undergoing rapid changes on multiple levels. This contribution is a joint effort of three anthropologists with up-to-date ethnographic data from Svalbard (mostly Longyearbyen and Barentsburg) to frame and interpret interconnected changes. The processes impacting Svalbard are related to issues such as geopolitical interests, and increasing pressure by the Norwegian government to exercise presenceand control over the territory. Our interpretations are based on a bottom-up approach, drawing on experiences living in the field. We identify three great ruptures in recent years – the avalanche of 2015, the gradual phasing out of mining enterprises and the COVID-19 pandemic – and show how they further impact, accelerate or highlight preexisting vulnerabilities in terms of socio-economic development, and environmental and climate change. We discuss the shift from coal mining to the industries of tourism, education, and research and development, and the resulting changed social and demographic structure of the settlements. Another facet is the complexity of environmental drivers of change and how they relate to the socio-economic ones. This article serves as an introductory text to the collection of articles published in Polar Record in 2021/2022 with the overarching theme “changing Svalbard”. Issues discussed range from socio-economic change and its implications for local populations including identity of place, through tourism (value creation, mediation, human–environment relations, environmental dilemmas, balancing contradictory trends), to security and riskperception, and environmental and climate change issues.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50901 - Other social sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF18_070%2F0009476" target="_blank" >EF18_070/0009476: Overheating in the High Arctic - qualitative anthropological analysis</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Polar Record
ISSN
0032-2474
e-ISSN
1475-3057
Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
240
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
"Article number: e23"
UT code for WoS article
000837993100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85124472640