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Strategies and Challenges of Sustainable Development in Eurasia
L. :
Routledge, 2024.
Makarov I. A., Stepanov I.
Under the general editorship: A. Obydenkova
This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China. It uncovers international, national, and subnational dimensions in sustainable development and aims to facilitate understanding of pressing environmental problems in the region.
While supporting the values and goals of sustainable development at the international level, states might employ very different strategies at the national, regional and local levels. The goal of this edited book is twofold. First, it aims to advance our understanding of different strategies, paying special attention to China and Russia at global, national, and sub-national levels. Thus, analysis of their strategies across different levels presents a more rounded picture. The second goal is to identify at least a few of the most pressing challenges of sustainable development across post-Soviet Eurasia and China (e.g. nuclear supply chain, emissions, environmental conflict management) and to attempt to understand their triggers, outcomes, and potential solutions. This book reflects the state-of-the-art before the invasion in Ukraine took place. It aspires to develop a better dialogue across different sets of literature in area studies, environmental politics, and international relations to improve our understanding of obstacles to sustainable development in Eurasia.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Post-Communist Economies.
Chapters
Stepanov I., Makarov I. A., , in: Strategies and Challenges of Sustainable Development in Eurasia.: L.: Routledge, 2024. Ch. 5 P. 82–109.
A carbon price is considered the most cost-efficient greenhouse gas emissions reduction tool often used as part of a climate policy. However, Russia and the other countries rich in fossil fuels tend to have weak incentives for proactive climate policies including carbon pricing which may lead to falling revenues in emitting industries. Can the carbon ...
Added: July 23, 2025
Research target:
Effective Natural Resource Management
Language:
English
Ari G., Liu X., Jiang L. et al., Ecological Indicators 2026 Vol. 191 Article 115592
Snow drought has become a research hotspot due to its widespread impacts on ecosystems and water resources, yet its effects on vegetation phenology remain relatively understudied. Focusing on the Mongolian Plateau, this study used the Snow Water Equivalent Index and the start of growing season (SOS) to assess the associations between snow drought and vegetation ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Stukach O., Ершов И. А., Динамика систем, механизмов и машин 2025 Т. 13 № 3 С. 82–87
The growing complexity of modern urban infrastructure increased demands on the efficiency of heat supply, which must be ensured by the sustainable and efficient operation of supply organizations. Decrease in thermal comfort, or overspending of thermal energy is followed by bad quality of control. Systemically, the heat consumption of residential buildings on a city range ...
Added: September 30, 2026
Li A., Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 2026 Vol. 412 Article 110676
Rangeland degradation is a global environmental challenge; however, intense debate persists between equilibrium (focused on the negative effects of grazing intensity) and non-equilibrium (emphasizing livestock mobility for adapting to climate variability) theories in rangeland ecology. In recent years, an integrative theory advocating the “coexistence of equilibrium and non-equilibrium” has emerged to reconcile this debate. However, ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Bergougui B., Ghosh S., Doğan B. et al., Energy Conversion and Management: X 2026 Vol. 30 P. 1–18
The allocation of public budgets to research and development plays a vital role in advancing climate welfare and facilitating the energy transition. Energy transition focuses on sustainable development goal −7 (SDG-7). By discussing the importance of energy transition and research and development, the current study elaborates on the pathway to resilient energy. This study investigates ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Doğan B., Hossain M. R., Khalfaoui R. et al., Financial Innovation 2026 Vol. 12 P. 1–29
Drawing from the recent COP28, which espouses a boom in clean energy transition through technological forwardness, and the framework of the SDG, we address critical questions related to green investment, energy investment, and environmental sustainability. We scrutinize whether green technology genuinely leads to green investment and energy investment in China and whether the causal nexus ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Xu Y., Tiwari S., Kazemzadeh E. et al., Energy and Buildings 2026 Vol. 351 P. 1–23
The present study investigates impacts of smart cities (SC), urbanization level (URB), innovation level (IL), Green total factor productivity (GTFP), level of financial development (FD) and digital economy (DE) on energy security (ES) and energy transition (ET) in China. Results of quantile on quantile regression (QQR) revealed that smart cities, urbanization level, innovation level, Green ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Shartova N., Mironova E., Geo Journal 2026 Vol. 91 Article 78
The historical timeline of urban development profoundly shapes the contemporary form and functionality of cities. Traditionally, cities were planned with limited consideration for the promotion of a healthy urban environment. Using Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, a city that has evolved from a medieval market town to an industrial centre and later into a multifunctional city with ...
Added: August 9, 2026
Tsydypova M., Современные проблемы дистанционного зондирования Земли из космоса 2026 Т. 23 № 3 С. 263–275
The article presents a methodology for mapping coniferous forest decline, based on the integration of automated remote sensing data interpretation techniques, vegetation indices, remote sensing data on above-ground biomass (Biomass CCI (Climate Change Initiative)), and materials from ground-based forest pathology surveys using forests of the Khamar-Daban ridge (Republic of Buryatia) as a case study. The ...
Added: August 9, 2026
Sandlerskiy R., Elsevier, 2026.
Encyclopedia of Ecology, Third Edition, Four Volume Set - with over 300 chapters - once again provides a comprehensive reference work covering the current ideas and practices in ecology.
Ecology is the ideal field for studying complex, adaptive, and self-organizing systems and by observing and understanding ecosystems, it provides valuable insights into creating sustainable systems. This knowledge is ...
Added: August 9, 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
Ermolin I., Suvorkov P., Conservation Biology 2026 Vol. 40 No. 5 Article e70300
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 ...
Added: April 25, 2026
Stukach O., Ершов И. А., Кутузов Д. В., 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 ...
Added: April 22, 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
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
S. S. Bricheva, P. M. Shilov, Yurchenko A. P. et al., Eurasian Soil Science 2025 Vol. 58 Article 74
The high variability of properties in urban soils and the abundance of anthropogenic inclusions that interfere with the propagation of electromagnetic fields are the reasons why they are seldom studied by geophysics. At the same time, geophysics is an efficient and fast way to diagnose soil structure and dynamics without affecting the functioning of the ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Плотникова А. С., Хамедов В. А., Архипцева Е. А. et al., Геоинформатика 2024 № 4 С. 4–20
A review of fifty Russian environmental geoservices implemented using open source software by governmental and
commercial scientific organizations, universities and individuals has been carried out. The role of geoservices in the implementation of interdisciplinary cooperation between various research groups and presentation of environmental projects’ results is shown. Geoservices are organized according to their application and associated ...
Added: March 22, 2026
Dregulo A., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2026 Vol. 33 No. 8 P. 3252–3265
The present study focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and sewage sludge disposal at landfill. Traces of ammonium, dihydrosulfide, phenol, formaldehyde, various hydrocarbons, and mercaptans have been identified. The dynamics of these gases are especially intense during the purification process from grids to aerotanks. Methane concentrations fluctuated more than sixfold in the wastewater ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Kanaev E., Афонцев С. А., Богданов К. В. et al., М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2025.
The report "Russia and the World: 2026" is the twenty-fourth in a series of annual publications of IMEMO. The report consists of three parts: global trends, economy and foreign policy. The main focus is on issues of key importance for ensuring stable economic and political development of Russia in the immediate (2026) and longer term. ...
Added: January 30, 2026
A. S. Baybar, M. Yu. Puzachenko, R. B. Sandlersky, Geography and Natural Resources 2025 Vol. 46 No. S1 P. S15–S22
This article presents a methodology for landscape mapping based on the integration of long-term series of multispectral data and morphometric characteristics of the relief for various hierarchical levels. Using the example of the Central Forest Reserve and its adjacent territory, where both indigenous and anthropogenically modified geosystems are combined, it is shown that the identification ...
Added: January 14, 2026
Nadezhda Kerimova, Akimov P., Ntoumanis I. et al., Scientific Reports 2025 Vol. 15 Article 43524
Previous studies have demonstrated that people focus on fewer specific features of natural environments compared to built environments. This may imply that neural activity stronger converge across individuals in green environments than in built environments, where people may focus very differently on diverse and often overloading urban stimulation. We hypothesized that the similarity of mental ...
Added: January 10, 2026
Nazarova V., Kozlova S., Pustynnikova A. et al., Journal of Applied Economic Research 2025 Vol. 24 No. 4 P. 1249–1279
The Russian green bond market is still in its early stage of development but has been expanding in response to global demand for sustainable finance and domestic economic challenges. This context makes the analysis of factors shaping its performance particularly relevant. The aim of this study is to quantify the influence of macroeconomic variables, such ...
Added: November 11, 2025
Nikolaev A., Kychkin A., Journal of Mining Institute 2025 Vol. 275 P. 18–29
Controlling the ventilation in underground mining enterprises (UME), characterized by high inertia and numerous influencing external factors, based on real-time sensor data located in mine workings and on the surface, with a high level of accuracy in regulating air supply by the main ventilation unit (MVU), is feasible only under conditions of a pre-defined sequence ...
Added: November 4, 2025
Stepanov I., Makarov I. A., , in: Strategies and Challenges of Sustainable Development in Eurasia.: L.: Routledge, 2024. Ch. 5 P. 82–109.
A carbon price is considered the most cost-efficient greenhouse gas emissions reduction tool often used as part of a climate policy. However, Russia and the other countries rich in fossil fuels tend to have weak incentives for proactive climate policies including carbon pricing which may lead to falling revenues in emitting industries. Can the carbon ...
Added: July 23, 2025
Kanaev E., Adno Y. L., Afontsev S. A. et al., IMEMO RAN, 2025.
The report outlines most likely global and regional economic political and security trends for 2025. ...
Added: April 6, 2025