JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020

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セッション記号 M (領域外・複数領域) » M-IS ジョイント

[M-IS02] Environmental, socio-economic and climatic changes in Northern Eurasia

コンビーナ:Pavel Groisman(NC State University Research Scholar at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA)、Shamil Maksyutov(National Institute for Environmental Studies)、Evgeny P Gordov(Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS)、谷田貝 亜紀代(弘前大学大学院理工学研究科)

[MIS02-04] Economic Assessment of Permafrost Degradation Effects on Road Infrastructure Sustainability under Climate Change in the Russian Arctic

*Dmitry Olegovich Eliseev1Boris Nikolaevich Porfiriev2Dmitry Andreevich Streletskiy3 (1.Russian New University (RosNOU), Moscow, Russia; Sochi scientific research center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sochi, Russia、2.Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia、3.George Washington University, Washington, United States; Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen’ Scientific Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen’, Russia)

キーワード:climate change, permafrost degradation, road infrastructure, risks, development scenarios, russian arctic

Russian regions containing permafrost play an important role in the Russian economy, containing vast
reserves of natural resources and hosting large-scale infrastructure to facilitate these resources’ exploitation. Rapidly changing climatic conditions are a major concern for the future economic development of these regions. This study examines the extent to which the transport infrastructure are affected by permafrost in Russia. Three model scenarios of changes in road infrastructure sustainability under permafrost thawing and degradation due to global climate change in nine Russian Arctic regions are considered. Until the current mid-century, economic assessment of the aftermath of climate change in these regions was physicogeographically based on six model climate assessments of cryogenic conditions, reflecting the most negative (scenario RCP8.5) option of the IPCC global climate change forecasts, which best fits the conditions of the Russian Arctic. The data of Russia’s Transport Strategy until 2035, updated by the authors, serve as the basis for predicting road infrastructure development. An inertial (conservative) scenario of road infrastructure development in 2020–2050 shows that capital costs to maintain road infrastructure sustainability and reduce damage risks under permafrost thawing and degradation will average at least 250 m US dollars a year and will exceed 350 m. and 470 m. respectively, under the moderate and modernization scenarios. The maximum indicators will be relevant for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Magadan oblast, and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The implementation of the modernization scenario will require revision of the existing standards, technologies, and entire economy of the road infrastructure and capital construction favoring the development of innovative standards and construction technologies, as well as the improvement of the proposed methodology and methods of cost estimation for these purposes.