Transition in a Cold Climate

Management Regimes and Rural Marginalisation in Northwest Russia

Bibliographic Data

ID4446476
AuthorsSveinung Eikeland (0000-0002-6066-7697, Institute for Urban and Regional Research, corresponding author), Larissa Riabova (0000-0001-7923-0367, Institute for Urban and Regional Research)
Year2002
Volume42
Issue3
Pages250-266
Publication date2002-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9523.00214
OpenAlexW1977378289
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This paper examines why and how the development of the forestry and fishery sectors in Northwest Russia have taken very different trajectories during the transition period and examines the impacts of these trajectories on the rural areas concerned. The drive to establish natural resources as "resources" in an economic sense during the transition period acts as the starting point for the analysis. However, the success of this drive has depended on the adaptation of formerly Soviet institutions to the new circumstances. These include the privatisation of Soviet production units (lespromkhozes and fishery kolkhozes) and the introduction of new systems for the distribution of fish and forest resources (auctions and quotas). From the analysis of data collected from four types of actors in Murmansk Oblast (a collective fishing farm, State owned logging companies in forestry villages, fishery management units and local forest management structures), the paper seeks to present these actors' adaptations, changes, opportunities and ultimately destiny during the 1990s

Business · Climate change · Destiny (ISS module) · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Economy · Fishing · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · State (computer science) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Ecology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Russia and Soviet political economy

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