World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Russia has monitored several large-scale hydrocarbon extraction and transportation projects on the Russian shelf, revealing the chaotic nature of this large-scale industrial activity. An analysis of the early stages of project implementation has shown that, contrary to the claims of project designers, the projects are starting to have diverse, tangible, and often negative impacts on the natural and human environments. Risks can be grouped as follows: the loss of or damage to unique natural and cultural phenomena, major accidents, and indirect and cumulative effects on the environment or human communities. The author argues that completion of a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) before these projects began may have helped to significantly reduce these risks, and considers possibilities for institutional development of SEA in Russia, based on trans-sectoral partnership.
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Large-Scale Hydrocarbon-Related Industrial Projects in Russia's Coastal Regions
The Risks Arising from the Absence of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Vassily Spiridonov
Book Reviews
Anna Bara and Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
Karelian coast of the White Sea (Spiridonov and Suprunenko pp. 317–343). The farthest east, and the book’s predominant focus, is Chukotka. The eight chapters in the first part, Indigenous Knowledge, are by Chukotkan authors, who write about the local
Pomors, Pomor’e, and the Russian North
A Symbolic Space in Cultural and Political Context
Yuri P. Shabaev, Igor Zherebtsov, Kim Hye Jin, and Kim Hyun Taek
role in the formation of regional markets and in strengthening internal commercial relations. The Dvinians, people of Mezen’, Pinega, Karelia, inhabitants of Terskii, and other coasts of the White Sea transported fish and game to Arkhangel’sk in
An Environmentally Literate Explorer
A. E. Nordenskiöld’s Three Expeditions to the North Asian Coast, 1875–1879
Seija A. Niemi
coast of Norway and Russian Lapland, down to the port of Arkhangel’sk in the White Sea. In the fifteenth century, Portuguese explorers opened a southern sea route around Africa and maintained a monopoly on this passage with the Spaniards for almost a
The Excavations of Aleksei P. Okladnikov on the Faddey Islands in Simsa Bay (August 1945)
Elena A. Okladnikova and translated by Richard Bland
northward into the White Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean. The very name “Pomory” points to their location, with “po” (by) “more” (sea). The Pomory met Dutch and German navigators in Arctic waters during the Time of Troubles and the reign of Mikhail
Prospects of Development for Urban Areas in the Russian Arctic
Igor Popov
if considered from an administrative viewpoint. A presidential decree of 2014 pointed out the Arctic zone, with its boundary shifting significantly southwards of the Arctic Circle and including the entire coastal area of the White Sea. Some authors
Chasing Rotten Ice
A Vitalist Ethos in Scientific Encounters with Sea Ice ‘Itself’
Julianne Yip
colours of a sea ice core can offer clues about its internal composition. Far from being uniformly white, sea ice can display a range of colours. The green-brown colour at the bottom of sea ice cores generally marked the presence of biology. Rotten ice as
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2024
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- Research Article
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- 64–79 (16 total)
Gender and Empire
The Imprisonment of Women in Eighteenth-Century Siberia
Gwyn Bourlakov
White Sea until Empress Elizaveta Petrovna pardoned her in 1744, and then allowed her to marry a short time later in 1745. 98 Her sister Elena also married soon after family members returned from exile, but inexplicably Anna was kept in exile in