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The Impact of Climate Change on the Food (In)security of the Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic: Environmental and Health Risks

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  • Elena Bogdanova

    (Department of Economics and Management, Northern Arctic Federal University, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia
    Federal Autonomous Scientific Institution “Eastern State Planning Centre”, 680000 Khabarovsk, Russia)

  • Sergei Andronov

    (Federal Autonomous Scientific Institution “Eastern State Planning Centre”, 680000 Khabarovsk, Russia
    Laboratory for Studying the Mechanisms of Physical Factors Action, Center for Testing and Examination of Natural Healing Resources, National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 121099 Moscow, Russia)

  • Andrei Soromotin

    (Institute of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Tyumen State University, 625000 Tyumen, Russia)

  • Gennady Detter

    (Arctic Scientific Research Centre of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 629008 Salekhard, Russia)

  • Oleg Sizov

    (Laboratory of Integrated Geological and Geophysical Study and Development of Oil and Gas Resources of the Continental Shelf, Oil and Gas Research Institute RAS, 119333 Moscow, Russia)

  • Kamrul Hossain

    (Northern Institute of Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Center of the Lapland University, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland)

  • Dele Raheem

    (Northern Institute of Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Center of the Lapland University, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland)

  • Andrey Lobanov

    (Federal Autonomous Scientific Institution “Eastern State Planning Centre”, 680000 Khabarovsk, Russia
    Laboratory for Studying the Mechanisms of Physical Factors Action, Center for Testing and Examination of Natural Healing Resources, National Medical Research Center for Rehabilitation and Balneology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, 121099 Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

Climate change represents a global challenge that impacts the environment, traditional lifestyle and health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic zone of Western Siberia and threatens their food security. Reindeer are an important food source for this population since reindeer herding products are used as traditional nutrition and effective preventive means and remedies for adapting to the cold and geomagnetic activity in the High North. Longer off-season periods, high summer and winter temperatures, melting ice, and forest and tundra fires have a significant impact on the trampling and degradation of reindeer pastures. These effects may lead to massive reindeer losses and changes in the traditional diet of the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic, which result in increases in the prevalence of respiratory diseases, overweight and hypertension. This study applied a multidisciplinary approach based on ecological and medical research methods with the inclusion of socioeconomic analysis. The primary sources included data on the longitudinal dynamics of air temperature as a climate change indicator and reindeer livestock populations (1936–2018), consumption of reindeer products and physiological impacts on the Yamal Indigenous population collected during expeditions to the Arctic zone of Western Siberia in 2012–2018.

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  • Elena Bogdanova & Sergei Andronov & Andrei Soromotin & Gennady Detter & Oleg Sizov & Kamrul Hossain & Dele Raheem & Andrey Lobanov, 2021. "The Impact of Climate Change on the Food (In)security of the Siberian Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic: Environmental and Health Risks," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-22, February.
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