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Publications resulting from the Environmental and Social Impacts of Industrialization in Northern Russia (ENSINOR) project

Forbes, B.C., F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, N. Meschtyb, A. Pajunen, and E. Kaarlejärvi (2009) High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social-ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 22041-22048. Download full text [2 Mb pdf].
Bartsch, A., T. Kumpula, B.C. Forbes and F. Stammler (MS) Detection of snow surface thawing and refreezing using QuikScat: implications for reindeer herding (submitted).
Kumpula, T., Pajunen, A., Kaarlejärvi, E., Forbes, B.C. and Stammler, F. (MS) Land use and land cover change in arctic Russia: ecological and social implications of industrial development (submitted).
Pajunen A, Oksanen J and Virtanen R. (MS) The relationships between shrub abundance and functional composition and species richness of understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra (submitted).
Kumpula, T., B.C. Forbes and F. Stammler (2010) Remote sensing and local knowledge of hydrocarbon exploitation: the case of Bovanenkovo, Yamal, West Siberia. Arctic (in press).
Forbes, B.C., E. Kaarlejärvi T. Kumpula, N. Meschtyb, A. Pajunen, F. Stammler and T. Tuisku (2010) Lessons from ENSINOR: planning and implementation of an interdisciplinary research project. In: T. Huttunen and M. Ylikangas (eds.) Witnessing Change in Contemporary Russia. Kikimora, Helsinki (in press).
Walker, D.A., B.C. Forbes et al. (2010). Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In: G. Gutman, P. Groisman and A. Reissel (eds.). Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate. Springer, Berlin (in press).
Forbes, B.C., F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, N. Meschtyb, A. Pajunen, and E. Kaarlejärvi (2009) High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social-ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (in press).
Pajunen, A.M., E.M. Kaarlejärvi, B.C. Forbes and R. Virtanen (2009) Classification, compositional differentiation and vegetation-environment relationships of willow-characterised vegetation in the western Eurasian Arctic. Journal of Vegetation Science doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01123.x.
Pajunen, A.M. (2009) Environmental and Biotic Determinants of Growth and Height of Arctic Willow Shrubs along a Latitudinal Gradient. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 41: 478–485.
Walker D.A., M.O. Leibman, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes et al. (2009) Tundra greening on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Spatial and temporal patterns of NDVI and the roles of rapid permafrost degradation and landslides. Environmental Research Letters doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045004.
Forbes, B.C., M. Macias Fauria and P. Zetterberg (2009) Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02047.x.
Forbes, B.C. and Kumpula, T. (2009) The ecological role and geography of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in northern Eurasia. Geography Compass 3/4: 1356-1380.
Forbes, B.C. and Stammler, F. (2009) Arctic climate change discourse: the contrasting politics of research agendas in the West and Russia. Polar Research 28: 28–42.
Stammler, F. 2009. “Mobile phone revolution in the tundra? Technological change among Russian reindeer nomads”, in /Generation P in the Tundra, /ed by Aimar Ventsel, /Folklore 41/ Talinn: Estonian Literary Museum, pp 47-78. (available online at http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol41/stammler.pdf)
Pajunen, A.M., R. Virtanen and H. Roininen (2008) The effects of reindeer grazing on the composition and species richness of vegetation in forest-tundra ecotone. Polar Biology 31: 1233-1244.
Forbes, B.C. (2008) Equity, vulnerability and resilience in social-ecological systems: a contemporary example from the Russian Arctic. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 15: 203-236.
Stammler, F. 2008. Stammler, F. 2008. Кочевой образ жизни оленеводов прибрежной зоны Западной Сибири (Ямал): возможности и ограничения в свете недавних перемен. /Экологическое планирование и управление. Выпуск 8-9 (3-4)./ Спец выпуск по МПГ под редакции И.Крупника и Д. Дроздова. Москва.
Nomadic livelihood of reindeer herders of West Siberian Coast: possibilities and limits in the light of recent changes. Ecological planning and management, vol 8-9 (3-4), pp 78-91. Special issue on IPY, edited by I. Krupnik and A. Drozdov, in Russian]
W. G. Rees & F. M. Stammler & F. S. Danks & P. Vitebsky 2008. Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change. /Climatic Change/, vol 87: 199-217
Stammler, F. & V. Peskov 2008. Building a ‘Culture of dialogue’ among stakeholders in North-West Russian oil extraction./ Europe-Asia Studies/, vol 60, No 5, July 2008, 831-849.