Description
Product ID: | 9781785338427 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Studies in the Circumpolar North |
Title: | Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities |
Subtitle: | Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change |
Authors: | Author: Robert W. Orttung |
Page Count: | 274 |
Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Urban communities, Human geography, Climate change, Urban communities, Human geography, Climate change, Russia |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and provides a detailed analysis of climate change and its impact on urban and industrial infrastructure. |
Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-03-28 |