PhD School on mining industry of the Arctic University continues its work at Neryungri Technical Institute - NEFU Branch.

The School Lecturers, NEFU Associate Professor Aytalina Ivanova and research member of the Arctic Center of Lapland University Florian Stammler gave a lecture on the types of relations between the state, business and local communities in the regions of the mining industry.

"There are two approaches to the logic of the relationship between human and natural resources - utilitarian and partner. As a rule, the representatives of the mining industry and the state have utilitarian logic, and the local population, including indigenous peoples, have logic of partnership. Our research is based on the example of the ratio of two types of logic in the mining region on the example of Kamchatka Krai and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)”, anthropologist Florian Stammler said.

"There are three types of situations that arise as a result of the mining industries activities in the region: the confrontation, coexistence and co-neglect. We concluded that the utilitarian approach to natural resources is prevalent in the regions we studied. The rational political subordination under the dominant utilitarian approach may create the conditions for a partnership approach in the development of natural resources and the avoidance of solving the problem can lead to co-neglect on the part of different users of resources", senior lecturer of NEFU Faculty of Law Aytalina Ivanova said.

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Thematic network of the University of the Arctic on mining industry includes the University of Lapland (Finland), NEFU (Russia), European University at Saint Petersburg (Russia), Memorial University (Canada), the University of Tromso (Norway), the University of Alaska (Fairbanks), the University of Greenland. The main objective of the thematic network is to build a research network within the frameworks of the master's and doctoral educational and research programs.