Organizovannaja lekcija dlja studentov Kamchatskogo universitěta imeni Vitusa Beringa, Filologice... more Organizovannaja lekcija dlja studentov Kamchatskogo universitěta imeni Vitusa Beringa, Filologiceskogo fakultěta. V ramkah lekcii reshalas problematika kommunikacii i obucenija jazyku v sootvetstvii s kulturnymi osobennostjami i stereotipami.
ABSTRACT Past research has characterized countries as displaying the traits of urban or rural bia... more ABSTRACT Past research has characterized countries as displaying the traits of urban or rural bias. Neither concept fits the United States well. We propose, as a hypothesis for research, that it may better be understood as displaying a suburban bias vis-à-vis both urban and rural populations. Drawing on the urban and rural bias literatures, we discuss two forms that suburban bias might take, allocational and dispositional, and the ways in which they might be identified. We offer initial evidence of a prevailing suburban bias in the United States in two spheres, those of judicial interpretation and American planning history, and conclude with suggestions for further research on the hypothesis.
In two regions of Pacific Russia, Sakhalin Oblast and Kamchatka Krai, emergent environmental poli... more In two regions of Pacific Russia, Sakhalin Oblast and Kamchatka Krai, emergent environmental politics are associated with political and socioeconomic transformation in the post-Soviet period. While transnational development of hydrocarbons in the Sea of Okhotsk is in the spotlight, the socio-cultural milieu and ecological settings in which extraction occurs is also replete with change. As in resource peripheries in other global locales, long-time residents of Sakhalin and Kamchatka question their cultural identities, socioeconomic futures and rights to land and resources as transnational development continues, leading to multiple politicized actions related to the environment.
Perennially frozen ground and sea ice are key constituents of permafrost coastal systems, and the... more Perennially frozen ground and sea ice are key constituents of permafrost coastal systems, and their presence is the primary difference between temperate and high-latitude coastal processes. These systems are some of the most rapidly changing landscapes on Earth and, in the Arctic, are representative of the challenges being faced at the intersection between natural and anthropogenic systems. Permafrost thaw, in combination with increasing sea level and decreasing sea-ice cover, exposes arctic coastal and nearshore areas to rapid environmental and social changes. Based on decadal timescales, observations in the Arctic indicate an increase in permafrost coastal bluff erosion and storm surge flooding of low-lying ice-rich permafrost terrain. However, circum-arctic observations remain limited and the factors responsible for the apparent increase in arctic coastal dynamics are poorly constrained. A better understanding of permafrost coastal systems and how they are responding to changes i...
ABSTRACT Two different kinds of locales that are commonly understood as sensitive to the effects ... more ABSTRACT Two different kinds of locales that are commonly understood as sensitive to the effects on ongoing and potentially increasing climate change are the Arctic, as a world region, and cities, as the preferred dwelling place of over half of the planet's population. Understanding how climate change may affect Arctic cities would be of paramount importance, especially where population densities are high. In the Arctic, the Russian Federation contains the most Arctic territory, the most highly urbanized places and greatest number of urban residents across all of the Arctic. This paper provides an overview of climate change policy in Russia, generally, and an urban vulnerability framework developed specifically to elucidate the suite of biophysical, socioeconomic, political and cultural vulnerabilities related to climate change in Russian Arctic urban places. This paper suggests that domestic politics and policy do not currently address the current and impending vulnerabilities related to climate change for people in urban settings in the Russian North.
Abstract In our digital age of information acquisition, multimedia information streams are consta... more Abstract In our digital age of information acquisition, multimedia information streams are constant, constantly changing and often contain multiple messages about topics important to everyday life, such as energy geographies. Recognizing that college students are prime consumers of digital information, it seems that crafting of academic engagement for and with students that is in touch with the knowledge networks they utilize and will continue to be part of today and into the future is important. Engaging students in the production of videos about important topics, such as energy geographies, aids them in becoming critical producers of knowledge.
Globalization and Its Impacts on the Quality of PhD Education, 2014
A signature of developing countries is that they provide their workforces with postsecondary educ... more A signature of developing countries is that they provide their workforces with postsecondary education. In this chapter, we argue that doctoral education must be a key element of the planning of science/technology policies for nation building.
Globalization and Its Impacts on the Quality of PhD Education, 2014
This chapter, as its title suggests, examines the forces affecting doctoral education from the sh... more This chapter, as its title suggests, examines the forces affecting doctoral education from the shared perspective of four early-career researchers (ECRs).1 We define the term early-career researchers as denoting current doctoral students as well as individuals who have completed doctoral study within the past three years and who may now be working in academic settings as well as in a variety of other employment sectors. As such, the ECR cohort may include advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and other beginning researchers.
ABSTRACT Attachment to local environments occurs worldwide, but especially where people use natur... more ABSTRACT Attachment to local environments occurs worldwide, but especially where people use natural resources for everyday survival. On sub-arctic Sakhalin Island, Russia, subsistence and semi-subsistence resource use are increasingly important for many local and indigenous people since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. These people continue to struggle through socioeconomic, political and environmental transformation with minimal aid from the federal center while transnational hydrocarbon extraction in Sakhalin's offshore regions has transformed on- and offshore environments valued by the people of Sakhalin since the mid-1990s. Here, I explore and analyze narratives about emotions expressed about ecologies and resources from indigenous (Nivkh, Evenk) and local viewpoints. Through constant invocation and imagination of Sakhalin's ecological setting as an all-providing, nurturing environment by indigenous and local peoples, negative emotions are attached to current ecological transformation. Here, I argue that the concept of homeland – often explored culturally and politically in local contexts – must expand to include ecological aspects. Long-term subsistence use of Sakhalin's resources gives rise to understandings of the island as an ecological homeland with a specific emotional topography that can be mapped cognitively, providing new conceptualizations of emotional, ecological topographies.
Urban development has profound impacts on ecological patterns and processes making the scientific... more Urban development has profound impacts on ecological patterns and processes making the scientific information required for developing environmental ordinances central for mitigating these negative ecological impacts. Washington State requires that planners use the best available science (BAS) to formulate land use ordinances as part of the state’s Growth Management Act (GMA). We present empirical findings describing challenges to planners in defining “best available science ” and using BAS to create local ordinances that balance development needs with natural resource protection. We interviewed city and county planners (and their consultants) in western Washington to determine what they find useful about BAS, whether or not BAS is applicable to their jurisdictions, and what constraints they experience in reviewing and using BAS to create or update their land use ordinances. Our results suggest that applying the BAS requirement is particularly difficult in urban areas. Specifically, ...
Organizovannaja lekcija dlja studentov Kamchatskogo universitěta imeni Vitusa Beringa, Filologice... more Organizovannaja lekcija dlja studentov Kamchatskogo universitěta imeni Vitusa Beringa, Filologiceskogo fakultěta. V ramkah lekcii reshalas problematika kommunikacii i obucenija jazyku v sootvetstvii s kulturnymi osobennostjami i stereotipami.
ABSTRACT Past research has characterized countries as displaying the traits of urban or rural bia... more ABSTRACT Past research has characterized countries as displaying the traits of urban or rural bias. Neither concept fits the United States well. We propose, as a hypothesis for research, that it may better be understood as displaying a suburban bias vis-à-vis both urban and rural populations. Drawing on the urban and rural bias literatures, we discuss two forms that suburban bias might take, allocational and dispositional, and the ways in which they might be identified. We offer initial evidence of a prevailing suburban bias in the United States in two spheres, those of judicial interpretation and American planning history, and conclude with suggestions for further research on the hypothesis.
In two regions of Pacific Russia, Sakhalin Oblast and Kamchatka Krai, emergent environmental poli... more In two regions of Pacific Russia, Sakhalin Oblast and Kamchatka Krai, emergent environmental politics are associated with political and socioeconomic transformation in the post-Soviet period. While transnational development of hydrocarbons in the Sea of Okhotsk is in the spotlight, the socio-cultural milieu and ecological settings in which extraction occurs is also replete with change. As in resource peripheries in other global locales, long-time residents of Sakhalin and Kamchatka question their cultural identities, socioeconomic futures and rights to land and resources as transnational development continues, leading to multiple politicized actions related to the environment.
Perennially frozen ground and sea ice are key constituents of permafrost coastal systems, and the... more Perennially frozen ground and sea ice are key constituents of permafrost coastal systems, and their presence is the primary difference between temperate and high-latitude coastal processes. These systems are some of the most rapidly changing landscapes on Earth and, in the Arctic, are representative of the challenges being faced at the intersection between natural and anthropogenic systems. Permafrost thaw, in combination with increasing sea level and decreasing sea-ice cover, exposes arctic coastal and nearshore areas to rapid environmental and social changes. Based on decadal timescales, observations in the Arctic indicate an increase in permafrost coastal bluff erosion and storm surge flooding of low-lying ice-rich permafrost terrain. However, circum-arctic observations remain limited and the factors responsible for the apparent increase in arctic coastal dynamics are poorly constrained. A better understanding of permafrost coastal systems and how they are responding to changes i...
ABSTRACT Two different kinds of locales that are commonly understood as sensitive to the effects ... more ABSTRACT Two different kinds of locales that are commonly understood as sensitive to the effects on ongoing and potentially increasing climate change are the Arctic, as a world region, and cities, as the preferred dwelling place of over half of the planet's population. Understanding how climate change may affect Arctic cities would be of paramount importance, especially where population densities are high. In the Arctic, the Russian Federation contains the most Arctic territory, the most highly urbanized places and greatest number of urban residents across all of the Arctic. This paper provides an overview of climate change policy in Russia, generally, and an urban vulnerability framework developed specifically to elucidate the suite of biophysical, socioeconomic, political and cultural vulnerabilities related to climate change in Russian Arctic urban places. This paper suggests that domestic politics and policy do not currently address the current and impending vulnerabilities related to climate change for people in urban settings in the Russian North.
Abstract In our digital age of information acquisition, multimedia information streams are consta... more Abstract In our digital age of information acquisition, multimedia information streams are constant, constantly changing and often contain multiple messages about topics important to everyday life, such as energy geographies. Recognizing that college students are prime consumers of digital information, it seems that crafting of academic engagement for and with students that is in touch with the knowledge networks they utilize and will continue to be part of today and into the future is important. Engaging students in the production of videos about important topics, such as energy geographies, aids them in becoming critical producers of knowledge.
Globalization and Its Impacts on the Quality of PhD Education, 2014
A signature of developing countries is that they provide their workforces with postsecondary educ... more A signature of developing countries is that they provide their workforces with postsecondary education. In this chapter, we argue that doctoral education must be a key element of the planning of science/technology policies for nation building.
Globalization and Its Impacts on the Quality of PhD Education, 2014
This chapter, as its title suggests, examines the forces affecting doctoral education from the sh... more This chapter, as its title suggests, examines the forces affecting doctoral education from the shared perspective of four early-career researchers (ECRs).1 We define the term early-career researchers as denoting current doctoral students as well as individuals who have completed doctoral study within the past three years and who may now be working in academic settings as well as in a variety of other employment sectors. As such, the ECR cohort may include advanced doctoral students, postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and other beginning researchers.
ABSTRACT Attachment to local environments occurs worldwide, but especially where people use natur... more ABSTRACT Attachment to local environments occurs worldwide, but especially where people use natural resources for everyday survival. On sub-arctic Sakhalin Island, Russia, subsistence and semi-subsistence resource use are increasingly important for many local and indigenous people since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. These people continue to struggle through socioeconomic, political and environmental transformation with minimal aid from the federal center while transnational hydrocarbon extraction in Sakhalin's offshore regions has transformed on- and offshore environments valued by the people of Sakhalin since the mid-1990s. Here, I explore and analyze narratives about emotions expressed about ecologies and resources from indigenous (Nivkh, Evenk) and local viewpoints. Through constant invocation and imagination of Sakhalin's ecological setting as an all-providing, nurturing environment by indigenous and local peoples, negative emotions are attached to current ecological transformation. Here, I argue that the concept of homeland – often explored culturally and politically in local contexts – must expand to include ecological aspects. Long-term subsistence use of Sakhalin's resources gives rise to understandings of the island as an ecological homeland with a specific emotional topography that can be mapped cognitively, providing new conceptualizations of emotional, ecological topographies.
Urban development has profound impacts on ecological patterns and processes making the scientific... more Urban development has profound impacts on ecological patterns and processes making the scientific information required for developing environmental ordinances central for mitigating these negative ecological impacts. Washington State requires that planners use the best available science (BAS) to formulate land use ordinances as part of the state’s Growth Management Act (GMA). We present empirical findings describing challenges to planners in defining “best available science ” and using BAS to create local ordinances that balance development needs with natural resource protection. We interviewed city and county planners (and their consultants) in western Washington to determine what they find useful about BAS, whether or not BAS is applicable to their jurisdictions, and what constraints they experience in reviewing and using BAS to create or update their land use ordinances. Our results suggest that applying the BAS requirement is particularly difficult in urban areas. Specifically, ...
Co-authors: Andrey Petrov, Shauna BurnSilver, F. Stuart Chapin III, Gail Fondahl, Jessica Graybil... more Co-authors: Andrey Petrov, Shauna BurnSilver, F. Stuart Chapin III, Gail Fondahl, Jessica Graybill, Kathrin Keil, Annika E. Nilsson, Rudolf Riedlsperger & Peter Schweitzer
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