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A recent multidisciplinary compilation of studies on changes in the Siberian environment details how climate is changing faster than most places on Earth with exceptional warming in the north and increased aridity in the south. Impacts of these changes are rapid permafrost thaw and melt of glaciers, increased flooding, extreme weather events leading to sudden changes in biodiversity, increased forest fires, more insect pest outbreaks, and increased emissions of CO2 and methane. These trends interact with sociological changes leading to land-use change, globalisation of diets, impaired health of Arctic Peoples, and challenges for transport. Local mitigation and adaptation measures are likely to be limited by a range of public perceptions of climate change that vary according to personal background. However, Siberia has the possibility through land surface feedbacks to amplify or suppress climate change impacts at potentially global levels. Based on the diverse studies presented in this Ambio Special Issue, we suggest ways forward for more sustainable environmental research and management.
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Affiliation(s)
- Terry V. Callaghan
- University of Sheffield UK. University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050
- Tuvan State University, Republic of Tuva, 36 Lenina St., Kyzyl, Russia 667000
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- Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, SB RAS, 10/3 Academichesky Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634055
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Andronov S, Lobanov A, Popov A, Luo Y, Shaduyko O, Fesyun A, Lobanova L, Bogdanova E, Kobel’kova I. Changing diets and traditional lifestyle of Siberian Arctic Indigenous Peoples and effects on health and well-being. Ambio 2021; 50:2060-2071. [PMID: 33058008 PMCID: PMC8497662 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01387-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The diet of Indigenous Peoples of North-Western Siberia is characterized by a significant proportion of traditional foods. Eating local products provides a ready-made set of macro- and microelements necessary for life in the challenging conditions of the Arctic. Currently, high consumption of traditional foods is typical in the season of fishing or reindeer slaughter, while out of season the consumption of easily digestible carbohydrates increases. Due to climate change, seasonal fishing and traditional migration routes are disrupted and, therefore, the consumption of traditional foods is decreasing. During 5 years of expeditions, we performed a cross-sectional screening of 985 Indigenous People from three districts of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. We analyzed the seasonality of acquisition and consumption of local reindeer and fish products and studied the traditional food storage among 90 Indigenous fishermen and hunters, who exploit cryostorage. As diet affects health, we studied the benefits of local food. The duration of the consumption season is decreasing and therefore the amount of consumption of local food is decreasing as well. This has adverse effects on health with increasing hypertension dissemination. The creation of stocks of fish and reindeer meat in villages and their year-round sale to the population is a necessary step for ensuring the food security and health of the inhabitants in the region.
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- Sergey Andronov
- National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, 32, Novy Arbat Street, Moscow, Russia 121099
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- National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, 32, Novy Arbat Street, Moscow, Russia 121099
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Scientific centre of Arctic research, 20 Republic street, Salekhard, Russia 629008
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- Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, 32, Novy Arbat Street, Moscow, Russia 121099
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- Scientific centre of Arctic research, 20 Republic street, Salekhard, Russia 629008
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- Institute of Humanities, Northern Arctic Federal University, 6 Captain Voronin Street, Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Region Russia 164500
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- Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety, 2/14 Passage Ust’inskiy, Moscow, Russia 109240
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Rakhmanova L, Kolesnichenko L, Kuzhevskaya I, Kolesnichenko I, Vorobev R, Tyulyupo S, Drozdov V, Shaduyko O. Perspectives of climate change: A comparison of scientific understanding and local interpretations by different Western Siberian communities. Ambio 2021; 50:2072-2089. [PMID: 34562268 PMCID: PMC8497671 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01621-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We present a study of social effects of climate change as experienced by local communities, based on field research and analysis in Western Siberia, from southern taiga to tundra. The results of field anthropological research reveal different attitudes of local residents to climate change. We compare the key trends of climate change with the perspectives of local residents, based on memories, subjective experiences, and local environmental knowledge. Our results highlight a significant divergence of the subjective assessments of residents from objective data on the dynamics of changes in certain environmental elements. We explore how the human subjective perception of natural processes, their consequences and impacts, are influenced by such factors as: type of settlement, age, gender, level of education and how collective stereotypes and judgments merge information in attitude formation. We also address the need to reconcile observed climate change impacts and perceptions to enable decision-makers to engage more constructively with the local population to develop and implement adaptation.
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- Lidia Rakhmanova
- HSE University, 16 Souyuza Pechatnikov, St Petersburg, Russia 190121
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- Tomsk State University, Arcadia Ivanova Street, 49, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Av., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Av., Tomsk, Russia 634050
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Callaghan TV, Kulikova O, Rakhmanova L, Topp-Jørgensen E, Labba N, Kuhmanen LA, Kirpotin S, Shaduyko O, Burgess H, Rautio A, Hindshaw RS, Golubyatnikov LL, Marshall GJ, Lobanov A, Soromotin A, Sokolov A, Sokolova N, Filant P, Johansson M. Improving dialogue among researchers, local and indigenous peoples and decision-makers to address issues of climate change in the North. Ambio 2020; 49:1161-1178. [PMID: 31721066 PMCID: PMC7128002 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-019-01277-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The Circumpolar North has been changing rapidly within the last decades, and the socioeconomic systems of the Eurasian Arctic and Siberia in particular have displayed the most dramatic changes. Here, anthropogenic drivers of environmental change such as migration and industrialization are added to climate-induced changes in the natural environment such as permafrost thawing and increased frequency of extreme events. Understanding and adapting to both types of changes are important to local and indigenous peoples in the Arctic and for the wider global community due to transboundary connectivity. As local and indigenous peoples, decision-makers and scientists perceive changes and impacts differently and often fail to communicate efficiently to respond to changes adequately, we convened a meeting of the three groups in Salekhard in 2017. The outcomes of the meeting include perceptions of how the three groups each perceive the main issues affecting health and well-being and recommendations for working together better.
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Affiliation(s)
- Terry V. Callaghan
- University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
- University of Konstanz, Constance, Germany
- Institute of the Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan, Russia 685000
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- 28 Promyshlennaya str, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 190121
- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, Building 7418, I2.41, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Centre for Sámi Studies, University of Tromsø, Postboks 6050, Langnes, 9037 Tromsö, Norway
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- Tomsk State University, 36 Lenina Pr, Tomsk, Russia 634050
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- British Antarctic Survey, UK Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Office, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET UK
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- Thule Institute, University of Oulu and University of the Arctic, P.O. Box 7300 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- British Antarctic Survey, UK Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Office, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET UK
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- Arctic Research Centre of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Line 8, Nadym, Russia 629730
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- Research Institute of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Tumen State University, 6 Volodarskogo St, Tyumen, Russia 625003
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- Arctic Research Station, Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 21, Str. Zelenaya Gorka, Labytnangi, Russia 629400
- Arctic Research Center of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, 73, Str. Respublika, Salekhard, Russia 629008
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- Arctic Research Station, Institute of Plant & Animal Ecology Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 21, Str. Zelenaya Gorka, Labytnangi, Russia 629400
- Arctic Research Center of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, 73, Str. Respublika, Salekhard, Russia 629008
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- Reindeer Herders Association of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, of. 35, 41 Sverdlov Str, Salekhard, Russia 629007
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Solvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
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