This repository contains some supplementary materials (code, data and plots) for the paper “Resilience Potential of the Russian Arctic Cities”.
Zamyatina, N., Kotov, E., Goncharov, R., Burceva, A., Grebenec, V., Medvedkov, A., Molodcova, V., Kljueva, V., Kulchitsky, Y., Mironova, B., Nikitin, B., Pilyasov, A., Polyachenko, A., Poturaeva, A., Streletskiy, D., & Shamalo, I. (2022). Resilience Potential of the Russian Arctic Cities. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria 5, Geografia (In Russian), 5, 52–65. URL: https://vestnik5.geogr.msu.ru/jour/article/view/1065
Current data and code:
You can see the published html version of the paper supplements at https://www.ekotov.pro/ru-resilient-arctic-clusters/.
The key result of the article is clustering of Russian Arctic cities.
An interactive version of this plot is in outputs/plots. The code to reproduce the analysis is in paper/paper.Rmd and online at https://e-kotov.github.io/ru-resilient-arctic-clusters/ . Some helper functions are in R.
If you want to re-run the analysis from scratch:
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Install R https://cran.r-project.org and RStudio https://www.rstudio.com.
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Extract all the files to a folder.
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Open the
ru-resilient-arctic-clusters.Rprojfile in RStudio. -
Open the
paper/paper.Rmdfile within RStudio file browser. -
Press Knit button at the top to run the analysis. All packages should install automatically, the analysis should run and you should get an regenerated
paper/paper.htmlfile.
Resilience is the ability of urban systems to overcome natural or manufactured crises. It is regarded as a complementary concept to that of sustainable development. Application of the concept of resilience is particularly relevant in the Arctic, where both natural and economic systems are particularly vulnerable. The article analyzes 19 quantitative indicators for 27 Arctic settlements of the Russian Federation according to the following subsystems: economic specialization, life support and communal services, socio-cultural, natural-ecological, administrative and managerial. Cluster analysis identified 7 groups of cities that consistently demonstrate similarity under different versions of analysis. Overcoming crises in a city development requires simultaneous resilience in different subsystems of urban development; the weakness of any of these subsystems could cause the collapse of the entire system. Therefore, the assessment of resilience requires an integrated approach.
sustainable development, Arctic cities, socio-ecological systems
The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project # 18-05-60088 “Urban Arctic resilience in the context of climate change and socio-economic transformation”.