scholarly journals Green Buildings in the Arctic region: a literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 16002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucrezia Ravasio ◽  
Raymond Riise ◽  
Svein Erik Sveen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

Green Buildings are defined as environmental-friendly buildings aimed at minimizing the impact on the natural environment through a sustainable and efficient use of resources over their life-cycle. This is, perhaps, a recently-introduced building concept that is increasingly gaining attention due to the policies and strategies intended to reduce the carbon footprint of conventional buildings, which nowadays represent a large portion of the global energy consumption and C02 emissions. This study provides a systematic literature review of the existing body of knowledge of research related to Green Buildings in the arctic region. Despite numerous studies and projects developed during the last decades, a study describing the current research for this specific region is still missing. Starting from the definition of Green Building and Arctic Region, an examination is made of research approaches developed to achieve the required green building standards, for which rating tools currently in use for their evaluation are also identified. The result is a critical analysis highlighting benefits and critical issues of Green Buildings located in the Arctic in comparison with conventional buildings, focusing on the environmental, economic and social dimensions. Finally, future research opportunities are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Green Building in the Arctic Region: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9325
Author(s):  
Lucrezia Ravasio ◽  
Svein-Erik Sveen ◽  
Raymond Riise
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Impact

The concept of Green Building refers to environmentally friendly constructions with the target of minimizing the impact on the natural environment through sustainable and efficient use of resources over their life cycle. Since modern buildings are large contributors to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, policies and international strategies intended to reduce the carbon footprint of conventional buildings are highlighting the role of this recently introduced building concept. This study provides a systematic literature review of existing research related to Green Buildings in the Arctic. Despite numerous studies and projects developed during the last decades, a study describing the current research status for this region is still missing. The review first examines the role that national and international policies developed by the arctic countries have on the development process of Green Buildings. Second, it provides an overview of the most commonly used and promoted Green Building rating systems used by the same countries in the region. The analysis highlights benefits and critical issues of Green Buildings located in the Arctic in comparison with conventional buildings, focusing on environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Finally, future research opportunities are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Arctic Communication System Development as a Factor of Guaranteed Access Maintenance to Strategic Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
V. F. Bogachev ◽  
S. Yu. Kozmenko ◽  
A. B. Teslya ◽  
A. A. Shchegolkova
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Strategic Resources ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Arctic Region

The development of new technologies, reducing the economic and physical costs of access to the unique resources of the Arctic, has simultaneously identified a set of interrelated economic and geopolitical problems arising during the Arctic territory development. Therefore, the subject of research of the article is the problem of the Arctic communication system formation, without which the further development of the region is not possible. The authors tried to substantiate the priority directions of the development of the communication system of the Arctic region with the aim to ensure continuous mobile access to strategically significant resources of the region in the current economic and geopolitical tendencies. The article proves that the main task of developing the Arctic should be to ensure the sustainable development of the Arctic region, which can not be achieved without the formation of an adequate level of a system of transport communications which meets the set goals and objectives of the development of the territories. Limited resources with a significant amount of required initial capital investment require an informed choice of priority investment areas, “points of growth” of the system of communications formed. The main conclusion is that the provision of operational access to the strategic resources of the Arctic is impossible without further development of the transport communications system in the region, and first of all the marine transport infrastructure (in particular, the Northern Sea route). At the same time, the impact of the redistribution of traffic flows on various aspects of the region's livelihoods, including the labor market and the social sphere, requires a separate study.

scholarly journals Education Transformation in the Arctic Region of the Republic Of Sakha (Yakutia) Under the Impact of New Information Technologies in Modern Conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (SPE3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoya S. Zhirkova ◽  
Alla G. Kornilova ◽  
Lyudmila I. Amanbaeva ◽  
Iurii V. Kornilov ◽  
Lyubov D. Unarova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

Currently, education is considered as a multidimensional and comprehensive process of personality formation. Among other things, it contributes to the development of basic abilities such as critical thinking, problem solving ability, networking, adaptability, and initiative. Learning is continuous and widely accessible, both with regard to adaption and personalization. Nowadays, teachers are required to search for innovative technologies and techniques providing qualitative acquirement of the material and the development of key subject competencies. The objective of the study is to introduce information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. The authors use the methods of testing, questionnaire, study of documents, and reflection. The survey involves 312 full-time and part-time students of M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), among which 178 people represent the Arctic Region. The survey’s results are introduced in Tables 1 and 2. The results of the study are positive, with quantitative and qualitative indicators confirming the purpose of the study

Some issues of the implementation of the environmental impact assessment procedure in the Arctic region

2019 ◽  
pp. 558-563
Author(s):  
Ella Yuryevna Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

There is a trend that recently the effectiveness of the Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been called into question throughout the world, and this is especially evident in the Arctic region. We identify, reveal and actualize the priority areas in the field of Arctic EIA. To one of the areas under consideration we assign the development of more meaningful and re-gionally specific social and economic indicators to support the practice of EIA. In addition, we indicate the need for increased attention to the direction consisting in a thorough study of the working and administrative relations between agreements concluded privately (for example, agreements on the benefits of exposure) and the processes governing EIA. We state that despite the fact that the eight arctic states adopted the Guidelines for EIA, they were not fully integrated into the national EIA systems. A separate area should be the study of the consequences of recent changes in the processes, regulations and legislation in the field of EIA. We conclude that environmental assessment should play a key role in planning the impact of environmental, social, and economic changes and in developing response measures that will allow Arctic communities in the best way take into account new opportunities and deal with the inevitable major changes.

scholarly journals Impact of the activity of federal executive branches on ensuring national security of Russia in the Arctic Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Artem Olegovich Kuzmenko
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

The subject of this research is national interests of the Russian Federation in the Arctic region. Russia's national interests in the Arctic are versatile and quite complex, representing an intersection of the spheres of national interests of Russia as a whole and such particular vectors as the World Ocean, economic sphere, border zone, etc. They are delineated with different degree of specification in a range of normative legal and other documents. Systematization of national interests, factors and threats in the Arctic zone, as well as understanding of their interrelation is an important step in ensuring national security of Russia in the Arctic Region. The analysis of normative legal acts allows systematizing the factors influencing the activity of federal executive branches in the Arctic, as well as outlining the threats to national security of Russia in the Arctic Region. The author analyzes correlation between the factors and threats to Russia's national interests and the vectors of activity of the federal executive branches on their neutralization. Such approach towards interdependence of factors, interests, and vectors of activity is of comprehensive, which discerns it from other existing approaches. The parallel is drawn between the indicated correlation and the dual layer neural network. The author assesses the feasibility of the proposed original approach for estimating the impact of activity of the federal executive branches on ensuring national interests, and offers relevant recommendations.

scholarly journals Creative industries in the Arctic: a review of Russian scientific literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-2021) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Artur S. Krasil'nikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

The article reviews the points of view of Russian researchers on the development of creative industries in the Arctic. The main issues that are considered by domestic authors in the works on the development of creative industries in the Russian Arctic are identified, the opinions of the authors on the potential and problems of the development of the Arctic creative industries in the Russian Federation are analyzed. It is concluded that the works of Russian researchers mainly consider such issues as the essence of the concept of "creative industries", the relevance of the development of Arctic entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation, the prospects for the development of creative industries in the Arctic regions of Russia, the level of development of creative industries as a measure of economic development, potential of creative practice in the Arctic region, issues of forming an active creative class, the attractiveness of the Arctic region for the development of creative industries and key problems of the development of creative industries in the Russian Arctic. According to most authors, the main task of the creative industries in the Russian Arctic is to ensure the dynamic development of small businesses in this macroregion. The potential of creative practice in the Arctic region, from the point of view of domestic authors, lies in the development of tourism and social innovation, as well as in the preservation and reproduction of the national culture of the indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic. The formation of an active creative class in the region is difficult due to the impact of such factors as the mono-sectoral nature of local economies, a high concentration of capital in the field of environmen.

scholarly journals Cost-Effective Technologies to Study the Arctic Ocean Environment †

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 2257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana Piermattei ◽  
Alice Madonia ◽  
Simone Bonamano ◽  
Riccardo Martellucci ◽  
Gabriele Bruzzone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Svalbard Archipelago ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

The Arctic region is known to be severely affected by climate change, with evident alterations in both physical and biological processes. Monitoring the Arctic Ocean ecosystem is key to understanding the impact of natural and human-induced change on the environment. Large data sets are required to monitor the Arctic marine ecosystem and validate high-resolution satellite observations (e.g., Sentinel), which are necessary to feed climatic and biogeochemical forecasting models. However, the Global Observing System needs to complete its geographic coverage, particularly for the harsh, extreme environment of the Arctic Region. In this scenario, autonomous systems are proving to be valuable tools for increasing the resolution of existing data. To this end, a low-cost, miniaturized and flexible probe, ArLoC (Arctic Low-Cost probe), was designed, built and installed on an innovative unmanned marine vehicle, the PROTEUS (Portable RObotic TEchnology for Unmanned Surveys), during a preliminary scientific campaign in the Svalbard Archipelago within the UVASS project. This study outlines the instrumentation used and its design features, its preliminary integration on PROTEUS and its test results.

scholarly journals The Impact of Oil and Gas Resources In the Arctic on the Development of the Transport System in the Region

2015 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
V. I. Salygin ◽  
I. A. Guliyev ◽  
A. O. Khubaeva
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Well Being ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Arctic Region

One of the main problems of the Russian economy today is the development of the Arctic region. Given the key role of the energy sector in the economic balance of the country, as well as the problem of exhaustion of hydrocarbon resources, the Arctic is of particular interest from an economic and geopolitical point of view, ensuring the energy security of Russia. Active development of the region leads to the development of transport infrastructure, which is one of the priorities of Russia's energy policy. The issue of transportation plays a leading role in the context of the development of Arctic resources and involves a number of tasks. The first step is to ensure the safety of navigation in the Arctic ice. Also existing infrastructure needs substantial upgrading, as well as construction of new facilities (including ports, railways, roads, etc.). Of particular note is a unique transcontinental route - the Northern Sea Route. There is a need to modernize the Arctic Fleet, including the construction of modern icebreakers of the Arctic class. The current state of the port system, which does not fully meet the latest international standards, is of crucial importance as well. In addition, along the route the development of railway infrastructure is required. In addition, there is the problem of underdevelopment of the road network, which leads to a re-run and lack of access of some are as to the road network of Russia. Thus, the development of hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic region contributes to the development of infrastructure of the transport system in the region and, consequently, its economic development that contributes to the economic well-being of the country as a whole.

Nuclear icebreaker fleet and power supply on the basis of floating power units

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
V. A. Tupchienko ◽  
H. G. Imanova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Far North ◽  
The Arctic Region

The article deals with the problem of the development of the domestic nuclear icebreaker fleet in the context of the implementation of nuclear logistics in the Arctic. The paper analyzes the key achievements of the Russian nuclear industry, highlights the key areas of development of the nuclear sector in the Far North, and identifies aspects of the development of mechanisms to ensure access to energy on the basis of floating nuclear power units. It is found that Russia is currently a leader in the implementation of the nuclear aspect of foreign policy and in providing energy to the Arctic region.

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