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The Interplay of the Human Security and Sustainable Development Concepts: The Case of Russia’s Arctic Industrial Centers
The main research objective of this study is to examine how two popular concepts – human security (HS) and sustainable development (SD) – interact with each other in the case of policy making on and implementation of developmental strategies of industrialized centers of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (azrf). There are three specific purposes to this analysis: first, to evaluate the scope and focus of sustainable development strategies (including environmental programs) that are implemented by azrf cities, such as Arkhangelsk, Monchegorsk, Murmansk, Nickel, Norilsk, Salekhard, Severodvinsk, Vorkuta, and so forth; second, to find out whether these strategies are efficient or not and whether they improve the situation with regard to human security or not; and third, to understand whether these policies are of short-term/single-issue character or represent forward-looking strategies that are conducive to the sustainable socio-economic and environmental development of the northern urban areas.