Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50901 - Other social sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF18_070%2F0009476" target="_blank" >EF18_070/0009476: Přehřívání ve vysoké Arktidě - kvalitativní antropologická analýza</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Polar Record

ISSN

0032-2474

e-ISSN

1475-3057

Svazek periodika

58

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

240

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

"Article number: e23"

Kód UT WoS článku

000837993100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85124472640