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.

This repository contains some supplementary materials (code, data and plots) and will be published on GitHub as part of the paper 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

Reproducing the analysis If you want to re-run the analysis from scratch: Install R https://cran.r-project.org and RStudio https://www.rstudio.com. Extract all the files to a folder. Open the ru-resilient-arctic-clusters.Rproj file in RStudio. Open the paper/paper.Rmd file 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.html file.

You can see the published html version of the paper supplements at https://www.ekotov.pro/ru-resilient-arctic-clusters/.