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标题：Cultural contextualization of indicators of human-environment interaction: the case of the Kola mining network
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作者：Olli H. Salmi ; Janne I. Hukkinen
期刊名称：Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1943-815X
电子版ISSN：1943-8168
出版年度：2007
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：209-228
DOI：10.1080/15693430701762915
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：This article addresses the important but overlooked socio-cultural dimension of sustainability indicators. We use cultural theory to assess indicators of human-environment interaction in different cultural contexts in a case study of a mining-industrial complex in the Kola Peninsula, North-West Russia. The analysis yields results with implications on two levels. First, the article contributes to indicator theory by illustrating with the use of cultural theory how the choice of indicators on one hand and their value range on the other shape and are shaped by culture. Second, with its analysis of the long-term use of environmental indicators, the article contributes to the development of trans-national environmental policy in the North. The analysis contradicts the widely-held notion that Russia has moved from a hierarchic directly into an individualistic culture. We illustrate how between these two domains, an egalitarian cultural storyline has played an important role in the shaping of environmental indicators in the Kola Peninsula. We conclude that the presence of the three cultural storylines in different time periods should be taken into account in the environmental policy that the international community is currently promoting in North-West Russia.
关键词：Sustainability indicators;culture theory;storylines;mining;Kola Peninsula