Arctic PIRE

⭐🆕 We have an exciting update to share with you all 🆕⭐

Our database of ISO 37120 indicators for 46 near-Arctic and Arctic cities is now available to browse, download, and share via this website designed by two of our wonderful undergraduate research assistants, Daniel Ensor and Shreeya Sharda.

The website convenes all of the data we've collected over the last few years and aims to share the knowledge gathered and produced from Arctic PIRE. Check it out and share it across your network!

www.arcticurbandata.org

👋Hi there colleagues and friends👋

We know it's been quiet on our page so we wanted to drop in and say hello!

We have our annual meeting (on Zoom this time around) coming up on Thursday, November 5th. Please contact Robert Orttung for meeting information.

To stay up to date on our project news and publications, check out the archived issues of our monthly newsletters below. You can also sign up for our mailing list to receive these via email.

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Our colleagues Bob Orttung and Katherine Weingartner worked together to examine and compare US Arctic policy-making strategies under the Obama and Trump administrations. Check out the article they published on this topic on Cambridge University Press!

US Arctic policymaking under Trump and Obama | Polar Record | Cambridge Core US Arctic policymaking under Trump and Obama - Katherine A. Weingartner, Robert W. Orttung

Sharing an event that might be interesting to you!

A week from today there will be a panel discussion focused on competing states and their influence on the Arctic. It will be moderated by our colleague Bob Orttung. If you are in D.C., come check it out!

(((Wednesday, February 5, 7:30 - 9:30pm at the Marvin Center)))

Our colleague, Marlene Laurelle has also published an article in Sibirica which examines the unique circumpolar landscape of indigenous communities in Russia. Go give it a read!

Indigenous Peoples, Urbanization Processes, and Interactions with Extraction Firms in Russia's Arctic in: Sibirica Volume 18 Issue 3 (2019) Russia is unique on the circumpolar landscape in that indigenous communities constitute only a small percentage of its Arctic population. Whereas they represent 80 percent of Greenland’s population, 50 percent of Canada’s, 20 percent of Alaska’s, and 15 percent of Norway’s Arctic regions, th...

Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen has published a few articles dealing with geopolitical issues, renewable energy potential, and energy governance in Russia, check them out! ⚡🌞⚡🌞

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73526-9_25-1

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2019.1583214

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618309198?via%3Dihub

Energy Governance in Russia: From a Fossil to a Green Giant? Russia is an energy giant in terms of both nonrenewable and renewable energy. Furthermore, Russia has large resources and the technologically relatively well-developed society and economy needed to...

Ever wonder about 🐠🐟❄️ Arctic fisheries ❄️🐟🐠 and their role in resource production, international cooperation, and their vulnerabilities due to climate change? Check out this interesting piece by The Arctic Institute!

Swimming Away! Arctic Fisheries and International Cooperation | The Arctic Institute International fisheries cooperation, between Iceland, the Faroe Island and the EU, tested as fish stocks swim North due to climate change.

"The Washington Post: Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground"

An interesting read on the direct impacts of permafrost thaw and climate warming on Siberian residents, exploring the issues of climate change through the lens of climate migrants' and their experiences. Check it out!

In fast-thawing Siberia, radical climate change is warping the earth beneath the feet of millions As permafrost collapses, people turn to mammoth-tusk hunting and migration.

While this is fashionably late, we'd like to say: better late than never! Check out some reflections from the summer field course trip to Alaska and Canada:
https://blogs.gwu.edu/arcticpire/2019/10/04/summer-2019-field-course-permafrost-reindeer-and-learning-about-landfills-oh-my/

As well as this video montage put together by Claire Franco!
https://youtu.be/D43ZGSRqjZE

Summer 2019 Field Course: Permafrost, reindeer, and learning about landfills… OH MY! | Promoting Urban Sustainability in the Arctic Summer 2019 Field Course: Permafrost, reindeer, and learning about landfills… OH MY! October 4, 2019 ezhang While we’ve said goodbye to summer (kind of, ), we’ve also had time to reflect on the field course in Alaska and Canada. The Arctic PIRE team, made up of students ...

We are learning about the implications of the changing Arctic at the UVA Arctic Bridges event. Today, we hear from youth ambassadors, professors, researchers, and professionals about their work concerning environmental change in the region, and what that means for infrastructure, local communities, and coastal landscapes!

Marlene Laruelle's "Polar Islam" looks at the structuring of Muslim communities and the complex social landscape in Russia's Arctic cities -- go give it a read!

Polar Islam: Muslim Communities in Russia’s Arctic Cities (2019). Polar Islam: Muslim Communities in Russia’s Arctic Cities. Problems of Post-Communism. Ahead of Print.