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Environmental Justice And The Environmental Rights Of Russian Indigenous People In The Arctic Region Research Proposal

Environmental Justice and the Environmental Rights of Russian Indigenous People in the Arctic Region The research proposed in this study is that concerning the legal protection of indigenous peoples and particularly in regards to environmental rights under international and domestic law. The research proposed has a special emphasis on the Russian indigenous peoples of the Arctic region.

The primary goal of the research proposed in this study is to determine and analyze international legal mechanisms, which will assist indigenous people of Russian Arctic region in protection of their environment rights.

The methodology chosen in the proposed research is of a qualitative nature, which is descriptive and interpretive in nature, and such that will involve an analysis of environmental justice on international and domestic levels. Included will be an investigation of whether international environmental law has been incorporated into Russian laws and development policies regarding indigenous peoples, environmental rights of these people including an exploration of infringement of indigenous peoples, environmental rights due to Russian laws and development policies regarding indigenous people's environmental rights. In addition, the proposed research will conduct an exploration of infringement of indigenous peoples' environmental rights due to Russian unsustainable development of energetic sectors and militarization of the Arctic region. Finally, the proposed research will examine the development of legal tools for protection of the rights of indigenous peoples of the arctic Russian north. Included in the research will be field research in which data will be collected from Russian Courts and indigenous people of Russia's arctic north will be interviewed and in the form of case study. Therefore, the methodology in the proposed research will be one of a qualitative nature and that involves an exhaustive review of literature in this particular area of study.

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When the Soviet...

Library of Congress, Country Studies -- Russia, nd) However, since that time, the seriousness and complex nature of environmental threats in Russia have been comprehended and it is now known that during the initial transitional years and years of reform that the response of Russia to those environmental conditions was both "sporadic and often ineffectual." (U.S. Library of Congress, Country Studies -- Russia, nd) The environmental incidents reported in the Soviet system include such as "the burst of an oil pipeline that received little or no public notice and remedial actions were slow or nonexistent." (U.S. Library of Congress, Country Studies -- Russia, nd) It is reported that government officials in Russia held beliefs that "natural resources were abundant enough to afford waste that the land could easily absorb any level of pollution, and that stringent control measures were an unjustifiable hindrance to economic advancement." (U.S. Library of Congress, Country Studies -- Russia, nd) During the 1990s the Russian government is reported to have labeled approximately 40% of the territory in Russian or an area approximately ae as large as the U.S. As "under high or moderately high ecological stress. Excluding areas of radiation contamination, fifty-six areas have been identified as environmentally degraded regions, ranging from full-fledged ecological disaster areas to moderately polluted areas." (U.S. Library of Congress, Country Studies -- Russia, nd) Reports state that the attention of the public was drawn to the dangerous environmental conditions "under the glasnost policy of the regime of Mikhail S. Gorbachev…, which berated the exchange of information in the late 1980s. The three situations that gripped public attention were the April 1986 nuclear explosion…

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Environmental Problems (nd) U.S. Embassy -- Country Studies -- Russian. Retrieved from: http://countrystudies.us/russia/25.htm

Gross, Z. (1995) Native and Environmental Movements: Linking the Native Moment for Sovereignty and the Environmental Movement. Z Magazine 8(11):52-50 (November 1995). Retrieved from: http://www.cnie.org/NAE/docs/grossman.html

Hoogensen, G. And Bazely, D. (2011) Environmental Change & Human Security in the Arctic. University of the West of England, Bristol. Retrieved from: http://gnhre.uwe.ac.uk/RenderPages/RenderLearningObject.aspx?Context=47&Area=2&Room=99&Constellation=124&LearningObject=1015

Koivurova, T., Tervo, H. And Stepien, A. (2008) Background Paper: Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic. 4 Sept 2008 Arctic TRANSFORM. Retrieved from: http://arctic-transform.org/download/IndigPeoBP.pdf
Russia (nd) Points North Baptist Mission. Retrieved from: http://www.pnbm.org/Arctic/russia.php
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