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The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle

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The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle

How Can Russian Cities Be Green?

Polina Ermolaeva

Kazan Federal University, Russia

Yulia Ermolaeva

Federal Research Center for Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Olga Basheva

Federal Research Center for Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Irina Kuznetsova

University of Birmingham, UK

Valerya Korunova

Center of Advanced Economic Research at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India Malaysia – China

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About the Contributors

Dr Olga Basheva is Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Research interests include: environmental sociology, socio-ecological rehabilitation processes, collective actions, networks of nongovernmental organizations and social movements, social capital, volunteering, media research, social networks, and media. Since 2007, she has participated in more than 10 Russian research projects. In 2019, Olga became the head of the research project “Emergency volunteering as a reply to the natural and technological challenges in Russia.”

Dr Polina Ermolaeva is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of Kazan Federal University, Research Fellow at the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center of Advanced Economic Research. Her research interests center on sustainability transitions, climate research, environmental governance, sustainable cities, and volunteering in emergency. Polina led over 50 global projects for such organizations as UBER, the World Bank Foundation, Open Society Foundation, British Petroleum, Fulbright, IREX, Russian Scientific Foundation, and others.

Yulia Ermolaeva is Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Secretary and Organizer of events at the Russian Society of Sociologists. Her area of professional interests include the interdisciplinary studies in the field of environmental sociology, sociology of professions, waste management, renewable energy sources, sustainable production and consumption, and ecoactivism. Yulia took part in more than 10 research projects on the study of engineering professions and dynasties, the problems of green cities, waste management, the critical state of natural and social systems, and ecoactivism.

Valerya Korunova is Research Fellow at Kazan Federal University and the Center of Advanced Economic Research at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Research interests include the analysis of environmental awareness and ecological culture of youth, ecological communication, the content and features of the (re)translation of ecological information in mass media, urban environmental risks, and their awareness of the citizens.

Dr Irina Kuznetsova is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Birmingham, UK. Her recent projects focused on population displacement from Ukraine and funded by AHRC, British Academy, and Wellcome trust. She is also a coinvestigator in Horizon 2020 project on the impact of migration on rural communities. Irina works also on migration from Central Asia in Russia. Recently, she started studies on mental health and forced displacement in Nigeria, Brazil, and Japan.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant number: 17-78-20106 “Russian cites in the context of new social and environmental challenges: building complex interdisciplinary model of an assessment of ‘green’ cities and strategies for their development in Russia.”