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In the context of global climate change and the increasing anthropogenic impact due to the process of intensiveness of nature management in the Arctic coastal eco-socio-economic systems, there is an increase in the production of risks of natural and anthropogenic origin. The purpose of the paper is to substantiate and develop a classification system of risks of Arctic coastal nature management, sources and factors of their production as well as possible relationships between structural elements, which makes it pos...

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected all sectors of the economy around the world. At the same time, tourism was one of the most affected business sectors. The history of tourism shows that the industry is exposed to crisis phenomena earlier than any other sphere of economic activity, but it adapts to new conditions much faster and more flexibly. The crisis of 2020-2021 is usually compared with other crises that the tourism industry experienced in the 2000s in Russia. In this paper the characte...

By applied to spatial planning tasks, a multi-level spatial sustainability assessment system should be taken into account. The paper considers the district spatial level which includes the coastal district municipalities within their administrative borders. All coastal district municipalities have features of their socio-economic statement and environmental status, due to various physical, geographical and socio-economic aspects, which determines the current state of stability of the spatial system. The following ...

A technology of pre-design comparative assessment of hazardous industrial facilities alternative options is described in this paper. The technology was designed by the St. Petersburg environmental and design company "Eco-Express-Service" LLC. Options? comparison is carried out in two stages using a score/ranking multi-criteria assessment: at first, a determination and comparison of environmental safety criteria values, and then ? a summary assessment of all set of criteria. 4 competitive methods are used for obtai...

The relationships of environmental and economic costs during marine dredging and the volume of transported soil for water areas of Russia?s High North and the Arctic region and the other, more southern, seas of the Russian Federation are identified and analyzed. The analysis was carried out using a representative material of more than 300 dredging projects from the database of the St. Petersburg environmental and design company Eco-Express Service LLC. As a result of the work carried out, it was revealed that the ...

The process of increasing the capacity of the Russian Arctic harbors has been gaining momentum in recent years due to the environmental change associated with the global warming process and increasing role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). An important component of this process is the operation of the Sabetta seaport in the Ob Bay, Kara Sea, intended for the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil and gas products) produced on the Yamal Peninsula in the NSR. The construction project of the Sabetta seaport includes the ...

In order to analyze the activities in the field of implementation of Arctic scientific projects carried out by the organizations of the Russian Federation, Murmansk Arctic state University has created an information and analytical system (database) for Arctic research and technological works. The work of the system is based on information from official open sources. Only the projects that have a specific reference to the Arctic region in their implementation are including for analysis. The executor of the project ...

Issues of development and implementation of innovative products and technological solutions that ensure the comfort of human presence in the Arctic are one of the priorities of the Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, the Strategy of Spatial Development of the Russian Federation, the Strategy of Development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and National Security for the period up to 2020. This sphere which includes agriculture, marine bioresources and aquacultu...