Corporate social responsibility, local people and multilevel governance of natural resources in the Russian North (5cr)

Objective

Aim of the course is to attain in-depth knowledge of the multilevel governance and environmental and social issues to the use ofnatural resources in the Russian North.

Content

Special attention in the course is paid to the role of non-state actors in governance of natural resources.The course focuses on how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) foster corporate social responsibility. After the general introduction to the environmental and social problems of resource extraction, the different cases of forest, renewable energy, nuclear energy, mining and oil sectors will be analyzed with a special emphasis on the situation of the local and indigenous people. On one hand the course contains knowledge about the legislation concerning e.g. land rights, participatory rights and indigenous people’s rights. On the other hand analyze, how informal rules in the extraction sector and the interplay of formal and informal rules work. The differing CSR policies and international regulation of the above-mentioned sectors are also studied.

Qualifications

BA

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-5

Materials

Tysiachnyouk, M. ; Petrov A. 2018. Benefit sharing in the Arctic energy sector: Perspectives on corporate policies and practices in Northern Russia and Alaska Energy Research & Social Science 39 . - p. 29 – 34.

Tysiachniouk, M., Henry, L., Lamers, M & Tatenhove, J. van. 2017 Oil Extraction and Benefit Sharing in an Illiberal Context: The Nenets and Komi-Izhemtsi Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic, Society & Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1403666

Tysyachnyouk, M.; Henry, L.A. ; Lamers, M.A.J. ; Tatenhove, J.P.M. van 2017.Oil and indigenous people in sub-Arctic Russia : Rethinking equity and governance in benefit sharing agreements. Energy Research & Social Science 37 . - p. 140 – 152

Tulaeva, S. Tysyachnyuk, M. 2017. Benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies and indigenous people in Russian northern regions. Sustainability 9 (8).

Tysiachniouk, M.S. ; McDermott, C.L. 2016. Forest Certification with Russian characteristics Forest Policy and Economics 62 . - p. 43 - 53.

Laura A. Henry, L. Nysten-Haarala, S. Tulaeva S & Tysiachniouk M. 2016. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism, Europe-Asia Studies, 68:8, 1340-1368

Tysyachnyouk, M.; Henry, L.A. ; Lamers, M.A.J. ; Tatenhove, J.P.M. van 2017. Oil and indigenous people in sub-Arctic Russia : Rethinking equity and governance in benefit sharing agreements. Energy Research & Social Science 37 . - p. 140 – 152

Nystén-Haarala, Soili – Klyuchnikova, Elena – Helenius, Heidi: Law and self-regulation – Substitutes and complements in gaining social acceptance? 45 Resources Policy 2015, s. 52–64.

Pappila, Minna: The interplay of Russian law, indigenous people and the oil industry – a need for non-state regulation? The Yearbook of Polar Law, vol. 6, 2015, p. 120-141.

Additional readings
Pierk, S. Tysiachniouk, M. Structures of mobilization and resistance: Confronting the oil and gas industries in Russia, Extr. Ind. Soc. (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.07.004

Tysiachniouk, M.S. ; Henry, L.A. (2015) Managed citizenship:global forest governance and democracy in Russian communities. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 22 (6). - p. 476 – 489

Maletz O, Tysiachniouk M The effect of expertise on the quality of forest standards implementation: The case of FSC forest certification in Russia. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 11, Issues 5-6, October 2009 422-428

Tysiachniouk M. 2012. Transnational governance through private authority: the case of the forest stewardship council certification in Russia. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers

Cultures of Contamination: Legacies of Pollution in Russia and the US 2007. ed by Michael Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk and Liudmila Smirnova, Elsevier Ltd

Execution methods

Lectures (16 hours), learning diary and a written home exam. The course will be held in February and is included in the master’s program of Aleksanteri Institute. This academic year the course will be held also in the winter school of Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Program “Legal Challenges in International Investments, Indigenous Peoples and Environment Protection” as a 10 hour workshop with an extended learning diary and tasks given there. The call for application for the winter school will be open in the fall 2019 for students of the University of Lapland, Riga Graduate School and l’Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Students of the BA degree are also eligible to apply for the winter school.