Elana Wilson Rowe - Russia and the North

Edited by
Elana Wilson Rowe

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS

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University of Ottawa Press, 2009

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Russia and the North / edited by Elana Wilson Rowe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 9780776618401

1. Russia, NorthernPolitics and government. 2. Russia, NorthernEconomic conditions. 3. Russia, NorthernEnvironmental conditions. 4. Russia, NorthernSocial conditions. 5. Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991-. 6. Russia (Federation)Foreign relations. 7. Russia (Federation)Military policy. I. Wilson Rowe, Elana, 1980

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PAVEL K. BAEV is a research professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO); he is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Civil War at PRIO. After graduating from Moscow State University (M.A. in political geography, 1979), he worked in a research institute in the USSR Defense Ministry and then in the Institute of Europe, Moscow, before joining PRIO in October 1992. From 1995 to 2001 he was the editor of PRIOs quarterly journal, Security Dialogue. His research interests include the transformation of the Russian military, the dimension of energy within Russian-European relations and the post-Soviet conflicts in the Caucasus and the greater Caspian area. His latest book, Russian Energy Policy and Military Power, was published by Routledge, London, in 2008.

TIMOTHY HELENIAK is a faculty research associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland. He has researched and written extensively on migration, regional development and demographic trends in Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on a National Science Foundation grant, conducting research on migration and regional development in Siberia and the Russian Far North. He previously worked at the World Bank and the US Census Bureau, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. During the 20012002 academic year, he was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute.

GEIR HNNELAND holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Oslo and is the research director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has published a number of articles and books on Russian environmental politics and international relations in the European North, among them Russia and the West: Environmental Co-operation and Conflict (Routledge, 2003); Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia (Manchester University Press, 2003) and Russian Fisheries Management (Brill, 2004). He has also co-edited Tackling Space: Federal Politics and the Russian North (University Press of America, 2006) and International Cooperation and Arctic Governance (Routledge, 2006).

ANNE-KRISTIN JRGENSEN is a political scientist and a research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. She has worked previously as the Counsellor for Fisheries at the Norwegian embassy in Moscow (20022006) and as an inspector for the Norwegian Coast Guard (19881995). She specializes in the management of natural resources, fisheries management in particular, and environmental issues in Northwestern Russia. Among her publications on these topics are Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia (Manchester University Press, 2003), and Integration vs. Autonomy: Civil-Military Relations on the Kola Peninsula (Ashgate, 1999).

ARILD MOE is presently the deputy director and a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has a cand.polit. degree from the University of Oslo with political science, Russian language and public law. His research interests include the Russian energy sector, in particular the oil and gas industry; the regional dimension in the Russian petroleum sector; offshore activities in the Barents Sea; Russian climate politics and oil companies and corporate social responsibility. He has also studied Arctic policy issues.

INDRA VERLAND has a Ph.D. from the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has worked on a broad range of issues related to energy, aid and indigenous peoples, focusing on the post-Soviet Arctic, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. He has extensive experience as a practitioner at the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the Nordic Research Board, and is currently head of the Energy Programme at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

ANNA A. SIRINA is a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Siberian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the IEA RAS. Her main research interests are in cultural/social anthropology, cultural geography and the history of Russian anthropology. She has published a monograph and numerous articles, both in Russian and in English. Her main research interests are in cultural/social anthropology, cultural geography and the history of Siberian anthropology. In 2008 she was a guest editor of a special issue of the journal Ethnografichesoe Obozrenie, entitled Ecology, Oil and Culture: An Anthropology of the Mining Industry.

ELANA WILSON ROWE is a senior research fellow at the Department for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. from the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has worked on a broad range of issues relating to circumpolar and Russian politics, including climate change policy and the knowledge politics of international multilateral contexts. She is the co-editor of The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2009).

CRAIG ZUMBRUNNEN is a professor of geography at the University of Washington and a faculty member of the Jackson School of International Studies Russian East European and Central Asian Studies program and Middle East Studies program. From 2000 to 2004 he served as co-director of the University of Washingtons Program on the Environment and is a core faculty member of the University of Washingtons interdisciplinary program in urban ecology. He received a Ph.D. in geography (1973) from the University of California at Berkeley and was a member of the geography department at Ohio State University from 1972 to 1977, before joining the geography department at the University of Washington. Since 1968 he has primarily focused on interdisciplinary research and field experience in the former Soviet Union, dealing with urban, natural resource management, energy, climate change and environmental pollution problems. His recent research has focused on combining his long-term interest in environmental problems in the former Soviet Union with international interdisciplinary team-based and problem-based research in urban ecology, sustainable development and information technology.