Barents region transition to a green economy

The article addresses the development of a green economy through the prism of renewable energy. Currently, interest in the development of renewable energy is growing dramatically, as evidenced by the highest growth of renewable energy among all energy sources in the world balance. The aim of this article is to carry out the quantitative assessment and to estimate economic potential from introduction of promising energy-saving and energy-efficient technologies, new energy sources. This paper considers the energy sector through the renewable energy sources, with a particular focus on the Barents region in view of its specific. The article gives a brief overview of the main types of renewable energy sources in this territory. The article is completed with the evaluation of the energy potential in Russian part of the Barents region.

Transborder Cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents Regions: Optimization of Management through Comparative Sociological Analysis

The article is devoted to analysis of the peculiarities of transborder cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents regions and optimization of its management through comparative sociological analysis. The institutional capacity of managing transborder cooperation, in the Barents region of northern Europe, its focus on increasing human capital and reorienting to cluster development can serve as an example for the development of cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This is evidenced by the multifaceted activities of the Barents Euro-Arctic and Barents Regional Councils for the development of cooperation between the border regions and territorial communities, coordination of priorities and implementation of Barents Co-operation programs at the international, intergovernmental and interregional levels, synchronization of their activities in the Arctic region with EU institutions, cooperation leading international structures in Northern Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic. Such institutional experience in the Barents region indicates the feasibility and high potential impact of establishing a new multilateral international instrument for supporting cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This experience should not be copied, but should be implemented taking into account the specifics of the Carpathian region. The author`s position on the methodological foundations of the sociological study of crossborder interactions as a differentiating and solidarizing factor is formulated. Perspective directions of research of cross-border interactions are seen first of all in: creation of international research collectives; elaboration and improvement of sociological tools for monitoring the state and dynamics of cross-border interactions; constructing a system of indicators that characterize the factors of micro, meso, macro and global levels that determine the content of cross-border interactions. The Ukrainian-Slovak, Ukrainian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Romanian borders as a special space of social differentiation and integration remain extremely unexplored.

Norwegian-Russian cooperation in public health education in the Euro-Arctic Barents region

A Norwegian-Russian cooperation in public health education in the Euro-Arctic Barents region started in the 1980s. In the 1990s it has been mostly limited to research- and student exchanges. In September 2006 seven universities including Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk (Russia), University of Tromsø (Norway), Nordic School of Public Health (Sweden), Umeå University (Sweden), Mid-Sweden University (Sundsvall, Sweden), Tampere University (Finland) and the National Institute of Public Health (Oslo, Norway), came together to found the International school of public health in Arkhangelsk, Russia (ISPHA). The mission of the ISPHA was to increase the level of knowledge in methods of research and practice in the field of public health, and to promote the implementation of this knowledge in Northwest Russia. Since 2007, ISPHA is providing public health education based on a 2-year MPH training. In 2007, ISPHA became the first full member of ASPHER. Forty-eight specialists got MPH degrees at ISPHA as a part of the program. In 2013 a PhD programme between NSMU and the University of Tromsø was established. In 2013-19, 6 PhD theses were defended, and totally 28 full-text papers were published in peer-reviewed journals. In 2017 two new PhD programs in public health between Norway and Russia were initiated. The programme in environmental health and registry epidemiology in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Russia is run in collaboration between two Russian and two Norwegian universities while the second programme on cardiovascular epidemiology is run by NSMU and the University of Tromsø. Both programmes have already recruited PhD students and teachers from both countries. Achievements, challenges, sustainability and future perspectives will be discussed. In spite of political perturbations, cooperation in public health education and research between Norway and Russia is contributing to better understanding of each other and strengthening public health workforce in Arctic Russia. Key messages Norwegian Russian cooperation evolved from exchanges to PhD programs. Most of the graduates strengthen public health capacity in their regions.

Multi-year water vapor isotopes (δ18O/ δ2H) reveal dynamic drivers of moisture source and transport in the Barents Region

<p>Stable isotope ratios (δ<sup>18</sup>O and δ<sup>2</sup>H) in precipitation (<sub>P</sub>) and atmospheric water vapor (<sub>V</sub>) can provide mechanistic information about water cycle processes such as moisture evaporation, transport and recycling dynamics. Such insight is valuable in the Arctic where declining sea ice is amplifying atmospheric temperature and humidity, leading to complex seasonal patterns of synoptic climate and atmospheric moisture transport. Here, we present two years of continuous water vapor isotope data from Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, northern Finland, to investigate moisture source and transport processes in the Barents Region of the Arctic. High-resolution (1-sec) measurements obtained between December 2017 and December 2019 are coupled with on-site automated weather station data – including air temperature, humidity, solar flux, wind speed and direction – as well as event-based precipitation sampling and stable isotope data over the same interval. Over the two-years, mean vapor δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>V</sub>, δ<sup>2</sup>H<sub>V </sub>and <em>d-excess</em><sub>V</sub> values are -24.50‰, -181.49‰ and 14.49‰, respectively. These values are strongly correlated and define a local vapor line for Pallas where δ<sup>2</sup>H<sub>V </sub>= 7.6 x δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>V</sub> + 5.9 (R<sup>2</sup>=0.98). We observe a mean offset of 10.9 ‰ between Pallas δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>V </sub>and δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>P</sub>, and <em>d-excess</em> is -4.8 ‰ lower in δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>P</sub>. There is a larger offset between vapor and precipitation <em>d-excess</em> during summer (-8.4‰) compared to winter (0.1‰) that may reflect varying fractionation coefficients between solid and liquid cloud-precipitation phases. The timeseries exhibits strong seasonality characterized by lower δ<sup>18</sup>O<sub>V</sub>/δ<sup>2</sup>H<sub>V </sub>and higher <em>d-excess</em> during winter, and the reverse during summer. In winter these broad patterns are primarily driven by synoptic-scale processes that influence the source and transport pathway of atmospheric moisture, and three dominant oceanic evaporative source regions are identified: the Barents, Norwegian, and Baltic Seas. Yet on diurnal timescales we observe distinct summer diel cycles that correlate with local fluctuations in specific humidity (q). These seasonal relationships are explored in context of spatial-temporal patterns in sea ice and snow cover distribution, as well as evapotranspiration processes across northern Eurasia. Finally, to better understand how current changes in the Arctic hydrologic cycle relate to inherent variability of the polar jet stream and related synoptic-scale weather, our isotope data are examined in context of dynamic circulation modes of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO).</p>

ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ БАРЕНЦЕВА РЕГИОНАЛЬНОГО МОЛОДЕЖНОГО СОВЕТА В РАЗВИТИИ ПРИГРАНИЧНОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА БАРЕНЦЕВА РЕГИОНА

Статья посвящена изучению деятельности Баренцева Регионального Молодежного Совета за период 20172018 гг. Определяется роль организации в развитии приграничного молодежного сотрудничества Баренцева региона, а также достигнутые ею результаты. Анализируются проблемы взаимодействия Совета и молодежи стран Баренцева региона. This paper examines the activity of the Barents Regional Youth Council from 2017 to 2018. The paper defines the role of the organization in the development of crossborder youth cooperation in the Barents region, as well as its achieved results. The problems of interaction between the Council and the Barents regions youth are analyzed.