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Murmansk region is a most dynamically developing region of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, which combines many conflicts in the types of nature use by various maritime sectors, with a negative impact on fragile Arctic ecosystems. The existing Russian and international experience in the application of the concept of marine spatial planning (MSP) was analyzed in terms of its application for the Russian Arctic and the current state and prospects of the socio-economic development of maritime complex was stu...

The Arctic coasts are complex and actively changing systems, their erosion rates varying in time and space. Due to global warming and its thermal and wind-wave effects, there is a tendency of increase in coastal erosion rates. Understanding of the interaction between permafrost and sea is important to disclose the background of active development of natural resources in the Arctic coastal zone (construction of coastal facilities, offshore pipelines, etc). In the present study, coastal dynamics of the Western Russi...