Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability in Russia
June 4-5, 2015
The George Washington University
Location:
Alumni House
1918 F St NW, Washington, DC 20052
Thursday June 4, 2015
9:00-9:15 Conference Introduction
Robert Orttung, GW
9:15-10:45 Cities in Russia
Robert Orttung, Chair
Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow “Cities in Russia’s Vertical of Power”
Nadezhda Zamyatina, Lomonosov Moscow State University, "How do different kinds of
proximity act on the quality of life in Arctic cities"
Brent D. Ryan, MIT, “Shrinking cities in the Post-Soviet sphere”
Stephen Crowley, Oberlin, “Monotowns, Economic Crisis, and the Politics of Industrial
Restructuring in Russia”
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Murmansk
Nikolay Shiklomanov, Chair
Vladimir Didyk, Luzin Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre RAS, Apatity,
“Development challenges of a mining single-industry town in the Russian Arctic: the case of
Kirovsk, Murmansk region”
Mikhail Rykhtik, Nizhny Novgorod State University, “The problem of mono-cities in the
Russian High North: the case of Severomorsk”
Alla Bolotova, European University at St. Petersburg, Department of Anthropology, “Coping
with Community Marginalization in the Industrialized Russian North”
Aileen Espiritu, University of Tromso, “A Norwegian view on cross border trade by Russian
companies in Kirkenes and Nikel”
12;30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Norilsk, Igarka, Dudinka
Oleg Anisimov, Chair
Nikolay Shiklomanov, GW, “Finding Hope in the Darkest of Days: Norilsk urban infrastructure
under changing socio-economic and climatic conditions”
Kelsey Nyland, GW, “30 Years of Land Cover Change in the Lower Yenisei River: ClimateVerses Human- Drivers”
Genevieve Parente, University of British Columbia, “Private sector participation in social
service sustainability in Norilsk”
Nikita Tananaev - Director of Igarka Geocryological Lab.
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Yakutsk, East Siberia
Dmitry Streletsky, Chair
Oleg Anisimov, Vasily Kokorev, Yelena Zhiltcova, State Hydrological Institute, St.Petersburg,
and North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, “Index-based Assessment of Arctic
Urban Sustainability: Climate Indexes”
Yurii Zhegusov, Oleg Anisimov, International Centre for Biogeochemical Education and
Training (BEST), and Institute of Humanities and Indigenous peoples of the North, Siberian
branch of Russian Academy of Science, Yakutsk, Russia, “Index-based Assessment of Arctic
Urban Sustainability: Social Indexes”
Andrey Petrov (University of Northern Iowa), Ust'-Kut Reloaded: A new opportunity or double
jeopardy for "second wind" resource peripheries?
Aimar Ventsel,
Vera Kuklina, GW, “The impact of re-industrialization along the pipelines in the cities in East
Siberia”
Friday June 5, 2015
9:00-10:30 Chukotka
Andrey Petrov, Chair
Gleb Kraev, Urban Planning and the Climate-induced challenges in Chukotka communes.
Timothy Heleniak, GW, “Chukotka and Magadan: Population Change at the Edge”
Tobias Holzlehner, Migration issues in the Russian Far East
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Yamal and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Kelsey Nyland, Chair
Qin Yu, GW, “Land use dynamics in the vicinity of an oil/gas facility in northwestern Siberia
and implications for arctic urban sustainability”
Florian Stammler,
Julia Loe - “Petroleum Extraction and Sustainability: Corporate and Community Perspectives in
Northern Norway and the Russian Arctic”
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-2:45 Sustainability and Energy Resources
Brent Ryan, Chair
Irina Olimpieva, Maria Tysiachniouk, Center for Independent Social Research, St.
Petersburg, "Partnership from conflict: the search for a balance of interests among an oil
company, regional authorities and the indigenous population (the case of Numto nature
preserve)”
Yvette Vaguet, University of Rouen, France, “Vulnerability of Polar Urban centers: the case
study of Western Siberia.”
Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State University, “Environmental Policies of Russia’s
Arctic Urban Centers: Survival or Capacity-Building Strategy?”
2:45-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 The Future of Cities in Russia in Comparative Perspective
Robert Orttung, Chair
Matt Berman, University of Alaska, Anchorage, “Defining and measuring community adaptive
capacity”
Dmitry Streletsky, “Projecting Climate Change and Its Impact on Arctic City Infrastructure”
Matthew Jull, University of Virginia, “ARCTIC STATES: Design and the Future of the North”