Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Environmental Consciousness of Local People of Yakutia Under Global Climate Change

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming

  • 6577 Accesses

Abstract

This charter analyzes the results of social research on environmental consciousness of Yakut people. Environmental consciousness regulates people’s behavior in ecologically significant situations. Results of the sociological survey show that local people of Yakutia observe some changes in environment, caused by intensive industrial development and global changes in the nature. Changes in the nature such as the climate warming in the winter, flooding because of a high water during spring, and watering of meadows and forests are something that the local people stress special attention to. Climate warming also affects the daily life of northerners. Local people notice some changes in the state of health, conditions of traditional housekeeping, etc. Social studies show that global changes in nature gradually begin to affect daily life of the inhabitants of extreme north and influence their environmental consciousness.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Ksenofontov S, Maximov T, Sugimoto A, Yamashita T, Iwahana G (2012) Climate change awareness of rural population in a permafrost region. In: Proceedings 5th inernational workshop on C/H2O/Energy balance and climate over boreal and arctic regions with special emphasis on eastern Eurasia, Wageningen, Netherlands, pp 19–20, 11–13 Nov 2010

    Google Scholar 

  2. Crate S (2008) Gone the bull of winter? Curr Anthropol 49(4):569–595

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Ranikko P (1996) Local environmental conflicts and the change in environmental consciousness. Acta Sociol 39:57–72

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Asmadi S (2007) Green marketing and the concern over environment: measuring environmental consciousness of Jordanian consumers. J Promot Manage 13(3–4):339–361

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Li P, Stagnitti F, Gong Z, Xiong X, Li X, Hu Z, Sun Y, Wang Z, Gao K, Kong C, Li P (2009) Environmental quality: issues and causes of deterioration—a survey on environmental awareness among the public in Liaoning province, China. Int J Sust Dev World Ecol 16(3):143–150

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Gun S, Ran M (2008) Pesticide Use in Turkish greenhouses: health and environmental consciousness. Polish J Environ Stud 18(4):607–6

    Google Scholar 

  7. Skachkov YB (2010) Climatic parameters. In: A review of recent climatic and environmental changes in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Yakutsk; 1–3 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The Institute of Humanities and the Indigenous Peoples of North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 1 Petrovsky st., Yakutsk, 677027, Russia

    Yury I. Zhegusov

  2. The Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 41 Lenin avenue, Yakutsk, 677980, Russia

    Stanislav M. Ksenofontov & Trofim Ch. Maximov

  3. The Global Centre of Excellence (IFES-GCOE), Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

    Atsuko Sugimoto

  4. The University of Alaska, 930 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-7340, USA

    Go Iwahana

Authors
  1. Yury I. Zhegusov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Stanislav M. Ksenofontov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Trofim Ch. Maximov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Atsuko Sugimoto
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Go Iwahana
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Yury I. Zhegusov .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ibrahim Dincer

  2. Makina Muhendisligi Bolumu, Dokuz Eylul University, Buca, Izmir, Turkey

    Can Ozgur Colpan

  3. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

    Fethi Kadioglu

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Zhegusov, Y.I., Ksenofontov, S.M., Maximov, T.C., Sugimoto, A., Iwahana, G. (2013). Environmental Consciousness of Local People of Yakutia Under Global Climate Change. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kadioglu, F. (eds) Causes, Impacts and Solutions to Global Warming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7588-0_16

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7588-0_16

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-7587-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-7588-0

  • eBook Packages: EnergyEnergy (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation