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Weaknesses of sustainable water use in the North: wastewater treatment and sanitation in the Arctic region of Russia
Sustainable Water Resources Management. 2025. Vol. 11. Article 49.
The sanitary condition and environmental situation in Arctic waters largely depend on the functioning of wastewater treatment systems. This study is devoted to wastewater treatment and sewerage systems in urban cities and towns in the Arctic zone of Russia. Over the past 50 years, the total discharge of wastewater into individual river basins and seas of the Russian Arctic has decreased by almost 50%, while the volume of untreated wastewater has increased by 50–65%. In some small Arctic settlements, sewage systems have become unusable by 57–100%. Sewage treatment plants continue to function, but they are not able to provide high-quality wastewater treatment. Nevertheless, the population is required to make monthly payments for municipal sanitation services. Due to the degradation of wastewater treatment plants, wastewater treatment and sanitation services are not actually performed. It is important to note that many pollutants are unregulated. For example, persistent organic compounds found in Arctic waters can cause cancer in the female population because they are transmitted through the food chain. In Russia, there are no standards for the maximum permissible concentrations of these pollutants in wastewater, which makes it difficult to control them. Based on a comprehensive review and analysis of the literature, the authors conclude that sanitation problems in the Arctic are complex, and attention to the aspects discussed in this study once again confirms this.
Pozanenko A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 6 С. 64–71
Due to persistent territorial socio-economic imbalances, some residents of Russian villages and small towns leave for a long time to work without changing their place of permanent residence. Such internal temporary labor migration is referred to by some researchers as otkhodnichestvo, and migrants as otkhodniks, by analogy with the pre–revolutionary and early Soviet migration of ...
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Мармилова Е. П., Арктика и Север 2026 № 63 С. 368–384
The aim of this article is to conduct a meta-analysis of foreign scientific publications in order to identify modern trends in the development of the creative economy and creative industries in the Arctic. The main method of the scientific research was a meta-analysis of the specialized literature. The analysis was carried out on the basis of two databases of peer-reviewed scientific publications — Scopus and Web of Science. These are the largest databases, which are ...
Added: June 17, 2026
Makarov I. A., Ивашкин Д. С., Всероссийский экономический журнал «ЭКО», Россия, г.Новосибирск 2026 Т. 56 № 3 С. 88–116
The article examines the key principles and elements of carbon pricing in the electric power industry, which play a crucial role in global decarbonization. Based on international experience and taking into account the Russian industry and country context, the possibilities of implementing these principles in Russia are assessed in order to stimulate structural changes in ...
Added: June 4, 2026
Helen Selorm Wohoyie, Anikin V. A., Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2026 Vol. 90 P. 204–211
Menstrual health serves as a critical litmus test for state intervention in contexts where women’s bodily experiences are historically shaped by stigma, cultural taboos, and structural violence. Drawing on Joseph Gusfield’s theory of social problems, this review traces the moral passage of menstruation in Ghana (1992–2025) from a privately managed, stigmatized phenomenon to a matter ...
Added: May 26, 2026
Dorri Sedeh S., Kosonogov V., Kerimova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1710257
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As cities continue to grow, access to natural environments is becoming more limited, contributing to increased stress levels in urban populations. Panoramic 360° videos provide a creative and scalable means of simulating natural environments, potentially reducing stress in city residents under controlled settings. Here, we examined whether short immersive experiences in different urban environments support ...
Added: May 25, 2026
M. O. Balaban, Vasilizhenko A. A., L. B. Karachurina et al., Regional Research of Russia 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 151–169
The population dynamics of settlements are determined by many different factors, including, as
research shows, the availability of educational and healthcare facilities (i.e., basic social infrastructure) close
to home. One can assume a two-way relationship: a decrease in population entails a reduction in the number
of assigned students in schools and healthcare institutions and, as a result, the ...
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A. I. Salov, E. V. Semerikova, The Journal of the New Economic Association 2026 No. 1(70) P. 221–237
In this paper, we assess the extent of agglomeration externalities that
mirror on labour productivity gains while accounting for the direct and indirect effects
of transportation exposure. To this end we combine data on the local average wage and
employment with comprehensive information on the public transportation and road networks
of the Saint Petersburg Metropolitan Area, one of the ...
Added: May 19, 2026
Желнина З. Ю., Sizova I., Korman A. et al., Креативные индустрии 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 42–62
The study of the experience of developing tourism and creative industries, which provide an independent track for the socio-economic development of the Arctic territories, reflects a request to identify the strength and properties of humanitarian industries that reveal their potential in regions where resource-extracting industries are the key drivers of development. A pre-project study and ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Фандюшин М. В., Вопросы политологии 2025 Т. 15 № 9 (121) С. 3535–3544
This article examines the issue of assessing potential urban electric transport development zones at the strategic level in the long-term planning horizon. This analysis is necessary to improve public policy in the field of transport, including in order to achieve the national goals of the Russian Federation and the goals of the Transport Strategy of ...
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Фандюшин М. В., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2025 Т. 15 № 8 (125) С. 1701–1710
This article discusses the issue of assessing the coverage areas of cities in the Russian Federation by the availability of urban passenger electric transport for residents. This analysis is necessary to determine the directions of improvement of the state policy in the field of transport. The position of the scientific community regarding the role of ...
Added: May 14, 2026
Zamyatina N., Rusakov D., Evgeny V., Издательские решения, 2022.
Десятилетиями социально‑экономическая география зарубежных стран представляла собой по большей части сбор данных о размещении отраслей хозяйства — с довольно слабой концептуальной базой соответствующих процессов. Это не удивительно, если вспомнить, что отечественная экономическая география занималась размещением хозяйства в условиях социализма. Сама возможность применения отечественных концепций к «зарубежным капиталистическим странам» вызывала жаркие споры в профессиональной среде отечественных экономгеографов — многие представители старшего поколения помнят, как ломались копья в дискуссии о том, например, возможны ли территориально‑производственные комплексы в условиях капитализма.
Между тем параллельно в «зарубежных капиталистических странах» формировались целые группы научных школ в сфере изучения размещения хозяйства и регионального развития, зачастую на стыке региональной экономики и собственно экономической географии (за рубежом всё чаще используется обобщающее наименование — региональная наука, или региональные исследования: regional science/regional studies). Анализируя экономико‑географические проблемы зарубежных стран, современные исследователи используют широкий набор понятий, сложившихся в последние примерно три десятилетия, и пока ещё, к сожалению, довольно слабо знакомых отечественным географам (от «перетоков знания» до «тройной спирали»).
Часть зарубежных разработок — вроде теории кластерного развития — вошли и в отечественную науку; однако нередко зарубежные концепции используются в несколько суженной и искажённой трактовке (как правило, в силу инерции парадигм мышления, чуждых используемым концепциям). Зачастую исследователи, наоборот, не видят потенциал применения тех или иных концепций на нетрадиционном материале.
Институт регионального консалтинга (ИРК), в котором начинали свой путь в профессиональную аналитику уже десятки выпускников кафедры социально‑экономической географии зарубежных стран географического факультета МГУ, принял решение способствовать овладению актуальными концепциями в сфере региональной науки как студентами указанной кафедры, так и всеми российскими исследователями в сфере экономической географии и регионального развития.
При финансовой и организационной поддержке ИРК уже подготовлена серия учебных пособий «Институт регионального консалтинга — студентам». Ранее вышедшее пособие «Эволюционное страноведение: материалы к курсу. Часть 1. Смета траектории регионального и странового развития: разбор примеров» призвано продемонстрировать спектр возможностей применения актуальных концепций региональной науки в страноведении и анализе развития отдельных регионов России и зарубежных стран (в 2022 году подготовлено второе издание пособия, исправленное и дополненное).
Для нового пособия по социально‑экономической географии зарубежных стран отобраны ключевые (на взгляд редактора) направления, необходимые современному специалисту для понимания развития мировой региональной науки. В абсолютном большинстве это концепции актуальной экономической географии; кроме того, добавлены экономические понятия, без знания которых затруднено понимание мейнстрима региональной науки (так, например, тема убывающей и возрастающей отдачи является ключевой для понимания направления так называемой «новой экономической географии» в экономике), а также системы популярных прикладных мер в региональном развитии («новая промышленная политика», понятие «зависимости от колеи» и др.).
Разумеется, это не исчерпывающий спектр концепций и подходов экономической географии (не говоря уже о том, что в пособии совсем не затронуты концепции социальной и других направлений общественной географии); работа над подготовкой новых материалов продолжается.
Появлению пособия в немалой степени поспособствовал труд магистранта кафедры социально‑экономической географии зарубежных стран географического факультета МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова Фёдора Чернецкого в рамках прохождения производственной практики в Институте регионального консалтинга. Авторами разделов стали студенты указанной кафедры. В ходе практической части курса «Социально‑экономическая география зарубежных стран» они выполняли задание не только тщательно описывать методологический контекст и суть той или иной концепции, но и продемонстрировать её работу на конкретном примере — российском или зарубежном. Разработка задания и общая редакция проведена Надеждой Замятиной, их преподавателем и одновременно заместителем директора Института регионального консалтинга.
Коллектив авторов надеется, что представленные материалы будут полезны как студентам, специализирующимся в области социально‑экономической географии и смежных дисциплин, так и всем, чья профессиональная деятельность связана с анализом и планированием пространственного развития экономики, регионального развития, государственным и муниципальным управлением и т. п. ...
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Ermolin I., Suvorkov P., Conservation Biology 2026 No. e70300 P. 1–10
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing driven by artisanal small-scale fisheries is a critical threat to global biodiversity and is exemplified by the commercial extinction of Caspian sturgeons (Acipenser and Huso). A key knowledge gap persists regarding the scale and behavioral dynamics of these operations.We tested the hypothesis that persistent high-volume sturgeon poaching is sustained ...
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Pavlenko E., Tolstykh D., British Journal of Sociology of Education 2026 P. 1–18
This article examines how youth in a Russian Arctic monotown construct agency through vocational education and training (VET) amid extreme structural constraints. Drawing on cultural sociology, it reconceptualises agency as a narrative construct, mobilising shared repertoires to render scripted pathways viable and morally coherent. Based on 65 interviews with 16–20-year-old students across five VET schools, ...
Added: April 23, 2026
Ершов И. А., Системная инженерия и инфокоммуникации 2025 № 4 С. 11–14
The heat consumption of residential buildings is a stochastic series. It is necessary for the design of thermal energy regulators the creation of a neural network model. In the paper, the model is carried out based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). The high accuracy of reproducing the series was achieved by training the model on ...
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Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Journal of Environmental Psychology 2026 Vol. 112 Article 103040
Recent theoretical developments in ecological approaches to culture challenge the prevailing East–West framing of cultural variation by emphasizing a north–south axis linked to local habitat stability and climatic demands. Building on Van de Vliert et al.’s (2025) ecological analysis, we replicate their preliminary tests across 83 Russian regions and add focused analyses to clarify the ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., В кн.: Медиаобраз региона в современной массовой коммуникации.: Вологда: Вологодский государственный университет, 2022. С. 288–296.
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of interpreting of the concept-ideologem "Arctic" in modern Russian media. The historical prerequisites for the formation of the perception of the Arctic by a mass Russian-speaking addressee as a native, home territory are formulated. The most frequent lexical representatives that characterize the region and allow to identify the ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., Terra Linguistica 2020 Т. 11 № 3 С. 97–107
The Arctic and its development issues become more and more important in the information agenda of the Russian and world media over the past years. The reasons for this increased attention to the region are the activities of main decision makers: authorities, army, business, nature defenders, international organizations, etc., aimed at expanding regional influence, improving ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Enchilik P. R., G.V.Klink, Semenkov I. N., Science of the Total Environment 2025 Vol. 998 Article 180219
Natural regeneration of forest soils affected by agricultural practices is a common phenomenon in many regions worldwide, particularly in boreal ecosystems. Affecting soil quality, the partitioning of extractable fractions of heavy metals and metalloids (HMMs) is not studied during natural regeneration. The following stages of natural regeneration after plowing have been identified in the Smolenskoye ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Kryazhkov V., BRICS Law Journal 2026 № 13(1) С. 178–197
This article focuses on specialized federal strategic planning documents in the field of “aboriginal” relations. These relations are considered as an additional legal instrument that has been used for several decades in national practice to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach by state bodies to solving socio-economic and cultural problems related to the life of ...
Added: April 14, 2026
Sivaev S., Abdullaev A., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 4 С. 130–144
The study analyzes the economic nature of public utilities. It demonstrates that they are provided by economic entities with a monopoly position in local (settlement) markets, which necessitates state regulation of their activities. At the same time, utilities are a mixed (club) good and have such a characteristic of a public good as non-rival consumption. ...
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Barut A., Proskuryakova L. N., Yakutkina V. et al., Renewable Energy 2026 Vol. 267 Article 125736
The global demand for rare earth metals (REM) has exceeded the global supply, exacerbating the deficit of these resources for wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and nuclear reactors. The largest REM exporting and importing countries have the power to influence energy transition in their own countries and around the world. This study analyzes the ...
Added: April 8, 2026
Dontsov A., Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
This major reference work handbook explores the nexus between globalization and social change, neoliberalism and social change, and societal response to social change. The chapters will primarily focus on these three broad themes and discuss their impact in different societies across the globe at a variety of levels, from the macro to the local. The ...
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Klyueva V., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2024 Т. 9 № 4 С. 146–168
The paper focuses on the analysis of survival practices in northern Russian settlements that developed in the 1990s. Most of the northern settlements were in a state of decline: changes in the socio‑demographic composition and population size, transformation of the local economy, degradation of transport infrastructure, deterioration in the quality of life. The reason for the decline ...
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Klyueva V., Социология науки и технологий 2024 Т. 15 № 2 С. 26–44
The concept of Arctic urbanization, widely used in contemporary Northern Studies, implies that academic and higher education institutions create a competitive advantage for Arctic cities when located there. The focus of science in the Arctic is specific – it stems from the logic of industrial development of the area. The Branch of the USSR Academy ...
Added: March 26, 2026