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Climate Change in the Russian North: Threats Real and Potential
From: Russia and the North
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This chapter begins with a brief introduction to global climate change and trends in greenhouse gases (GHGs) before turning to the trends and sources of Russian GHGs and the role of the Russian North. Next, Russia’s GHG trends are situated within regional and global contexts. A number of the real and potential impacts of climate change in the Russian North are explored. Concomitantly, the potential systemic positive feedback impacts of global warming, forcing factors on global warming itself, are identified.
Contributors
Craig ZumBrunnen
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 Washington’s Program on the Environment and is a core faculty member of the University of Washington’s 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.
