Victoria Sharakhmatova
Postdoctoral Scholar, Arctic, Remote and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center (ARCTICenter)
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Victoria Sharakhmatova
Postdoctoral Scholar, Arctic, Remote and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center (ARCTICenter)
Ph.D. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (Economic and Management)
B.A. and M.A. Russian Foreign Trade Academy Far East Branch (World Economy)
Indigenous economy and traditional subsistence, social and economic development, Indigenous social-ecological systems, Indigenous sustainability, vulnerability, global change in remote communities, salmon conservation, climate change, Arctic, Russia, Siberia, Far East, Kamchatka, and Alaska as well as traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples of the North and co-management of natural resources.
Human Geography: economic geography, assessment of human capital in Indigenous regions, regional analysis, planning, and development of the territory of traditional land use of Indigenous Peoples of the North.
Grants and Projects
ACTION: Alaska Coastal Cooperative for Co-Producing Transformative Ideas and Opportunities in the North (NSF).
ARC-NAV: Arctic Robust Communities-Navigating Adaptation to Variability (NSF)
EIWA: Emerging Indigenous Economic Institutions and Wealth and Inequality in the Arctic (WAGE: Wealth of the Arctic Group of Expert).
LICCI: Local Indicators of Climate Changes Impacts (ERC: European Research Council) https://licci.eu/victoria-n-sharakhmatova/.
UNESCO IITE: Project “A Networked System of Open Indigenous Knowledge Resources for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Polar Regions” (UNESCO).
UNDP: United Nation Development Programme, Global Environmental Facility, Project “Strengthening the Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Russia” (GEF).
UNDP: United Nation Development Programme, Project “Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild Salmonid Biological Diversity in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula” (GEF).
UNDP: United Nation Development Programme, Project “Demonstrating Sustainable Conservation of Biological Diversity in Four Protected Areas in Russia's Kamchatka Oblast” (GEF).
Articles, monographs, and book chapters:
Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems. 2024. Victoria Reyes-García; David García-del-Amo; Santiago Álvarez-Fernández; Petra Benyei; Laura Calvet-Mir; André B. Junqueira; Vanesse Labeyrie; Xiaoyue LI; Sara Miñarro; Vincent Porcher; Anna Porcuna-Ferrer; Anna Schlingmann; Christoph Schunko; Ramin Soleymani; Adrien Tofighi-Niaki; Mariam Abazeri; Emmanuel M. N. A. N. Attoh; Ayansina Ayanlade; Julia Vieira Da Cunha Ávila; Daniel Babai; Rodrigo C. Bulamah; Joao Campos-Silva; Rosario Carmona; Julián Caviedes; Rumbidzayi Chakauya; Mouna Chambon; Zhuo Chen; Fasco Chengula; Esther Conde; Aida Cuní-Sanchez; Christophe Demichelis; Evgeniya Dudina; Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares; Eranga K. Galappaththi; Claudia Geffner-Fuenmayor; Drew Gerkey; Marcos Glauser; Eric Hirsch; Tomás Huanca; José Tomás Ibarra; Andrea E. Izquierdo; Leneisja Junsberg; Marisa Lanker; Yolanda López-Maldonado; Juliette Mariel; Giulia Mattalia; Mohamed D. Miara; Maedeh SalimiMiquel Torrents-Ticó; Aibek Samakov; Reinmar Seidler; Victoria Sharakhmatova; Uttam Babu Shrestha; Alpy Sharma; Priyatma Singh; Tungalag Ulambayar; Rihan Wu & Ibrahim S. Zakari Communications Earth & Environment volume 5, Article number: 29 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01164-y
Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities. 2024. Victoria Reyes-García; David García-Del-Amo; Anna Porcuna-Ferrer; Anna Schlingmann; Mariam Abazeri; Emmanuel M. N. A. N. Attoh; Julia Vieira da Cunha Ávila; Ayansina Ayanlade; Daniel Babai; Petra Benyei; Laura Calvet-Mir; Rosario Carmona; Julián Caviedes; Jane Chah; Rumbidzayi Chakauya; Aida Cuní-Sanchez; Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares; Eranga K. Galappaththi; Drew Gerkey; Sonia Graham; Théo Guillerminet; Tomás Huanca; José Tomás Ibarra; André B. Junqueira; Xiaoyue Li; Yolanda López-Maldonado; Giulia Mattalia; Aibek Samakov; Christoph Schunko; Reinmar Seidler; Victoria Sharakhmatova; Priyatma Singh; Adrien Tofighi-Niaki; Miquel Torrents-Ticó & LICCI Consortium Sustainable Earth Reviews volume 7, Article number: 1 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-023-00063-6
Gerkey, D., Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2024. Local observation of climate change and impacts on livelihoods in Kamchatka, Russia. In V. Reyes-García, S. Álvarez-Fernández, P. Benyei, L. Calvet-Mir, D. García-del-Amo, A. B. Junqueira, X. Li, V. Porcher, A. Porcuna-Ferrer, A. Schlingmann, & R. Soleymani (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Oxfords hire & New York: Routledge. Chp. 2, pp. 45-60. DOI: 10.4324/9781003356837-5
D’yakov, M.Yu., Mikhailova, E.G., Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2019. Strategic environmental assessment in regional planning. Problems of Territory's Development, 2019, no. 2 (100), pp. 80–94. DOI: 10.15838/ptd.2019.2.100.5
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2013. Entrepreneurship Development of Tribal Communities Based on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Kamchatsky Krai. Kamchatka state Technical University, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. P. 156
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2012. Assessment of Recreational Facilities of the Protected areas for Sustainable Development of Ecological and Ethnographical Tourism. Far East Department Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. P. 104
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2012. Indigenous Peoples’ traditional fishing in Kamchatka and local community development concept based on sustainable use of fish resources: problems and solutions. In Colombi, B. J., & Brooks, J. (Eds.), School for Advanced Research Press. Keystone nations: Indigenous peoples and salmon across the north Pacific. Santa Fe, NM, pp. 89-108. https://sarweb.org/keystone-nations/
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2011. Observation of Climate Change by Kamchatka Indigenous Peoples: report. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksky, Kamchapress. P. 78 http://www.knigakamchatka.ru/ekonomika-ekologiya/climate- kamchatka.html
Zhuravleva, I., Sharakhmatova, V.N., Yakel, Y. 2009. Concept Paper on Development of Indigenous Peoples of the North Living in Remote Coastal Regions of Western Kamchatka. KMK ltd. Moscow. P. 110.
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2008. Current State of Traditional Natural Resource Use of Indigenous Peoples of Kamchatka. In Korchagin, Yu.V. (Eds.), Kamchatka State University of Vitus Bering. Traditional knowledge and its value for biodiversity conservation. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksky. Chp. 2, pp. 15-47.
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2008. Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Protection and Use of Natural Resources in Kamchatka: Challenges of Co-management. In Korchagin, Yu.V. (Eds.), Kamchatka State University of Vitus Bering. Traditional knowledge and its value for biodiversity conservation. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksky. Chp. 8, pp. 170-185.
Sharakhmatova, V.N. Korchagin, Yu.V. 2008. Traditional knowledge as cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples of Kamchatka. Kamchatka State University of Vitus Bering, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksky. 2008. P. 116.
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2008. Methodic Recommendations on Traditional Ecological Knowledge Use. Kamchatka State University of Vitus Bering, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatksky. P. 24.
Other publications
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Belyaeva, M.E. 2022. Economic activity, rituals and traditional food of the Indigenous Peoples of Kamchatka. In the collection: “To the history of the country of Kamchatka and its inhabitants”. Materials of the ХХХVII Krasheninnikov Readings. Kamchatka Krai scientific library named after S.P. Krasheninnikov. 2022, Pp. 17-22. https://kamlib.ru/ethnography/dir3/k_istorii_strany_kamchatki_i_ee_zhiteley/khozyaystvenno_promyslovaya_deyatelnost_obryady_traditsionnoe_pitanie_korennykh_narodov_kamchatki/
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Degai, T.S., Petrov, A.N. 2022. The Impact of Coastal Sea Ice Instability on the Livelihoods of Local Communities in the North Pacific. In the collection: “To the history of the country of Kamchatka and its inhabitants”. Materials of the ХХХVII Krasheninnikov Readings. Kamchatka Krai scientific library named after S.P. Krasheninnikov. 2022, Pp. 92-95. https://kamlib.ru/ethnography/dir3/k_istorii_strany_kamchatki_i_ee_zhiteley/vliyanie_nestabilnosti_morskikh_ldov_v_pribrezhnoy_zone_na_zhiznedeyatelnost_mestnykh_soobshchestv_severnoy_patsifiki/
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Koester, D., Petrov, A.N., Degai, T.S. 2022. The Person of the North – Viktoria Vasilyevna Petrasheva (80th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding original scientist of Kamchatka V. V. Petrasheva (March 5, 1942 – February 28, 2021)). In the collection: “To the history of the country of Kamchatka and its inhabitants”. Materials of the ХХХVII Krasheninnikov Readings. Kamchatka Krai scientific library named after S.P. Krasheninnikov. 2022, Pp. 261-264. https://kamlib.ru/ethnography/dir3/k_istorii_strany_kamchatki_i_ee_zhiteley/chelovek_severa_viktoriya_vasilevna_petrasheva/
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2020. Social and Economic Transformations in Kamchatka: From Koryak National District to the Territory with a Special Status. Kamchatka-Russia-The World: Forgotten Names (based on international historical readings of August 28, 2020) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Publishing house Kamchatpress, 2020. – Pp. 198-201. http://www.kamchadaly.ru/index.php/istoricheskaya-biblioteka/318-kamchatka-rossiya-mir-zabytye-imena-2
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Belayeva, M.E. 2020. The Role of Traditional Economic Activity in Preserving the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples of Kamchatka. In the collection: "Be proud of the glory of your ancestors...". Materials of the XXVI Krasheninnikov Readings. Ministry of Culture of the Kamchatka region; Kamchatka Krai scientific library named after S.P. Krasheninnikov. 2020, Pp. 218-227. https://www.kamlib.ru/ethnography/dir3/gorditsya_slavoyu_svoikh_predkov/rol_traditsionnoy_khozyaystvennoy_deyatelnosti_v_sokhrane_nii_nematerialnogo_kulturnogo_naslediya_korennykh_narodov_kamchatki/
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2019. Traditional nature management and fishing of Indigenous Peoples. Presented at the scientific and practical workshop on the Pacific Salmon in the world of human relationships: economic, social, environmental, historical, ethnic and cultural aspects the scientific and practical workshop, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Elizovo, May 21–22, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Publishing house Kamchatpress, pp. 88-91. https://terrakamchatka.ru/drugie-konferencii/mezhdunarodnyj-nauchno-prakticheskij-seminar-tihookeanskij-losos-v-mire-chelovecheskih-vzaimootnoshenij-jekonomicheskih-socialnyh-jekologicheskih-istoricheskih-jetnicheskih-i-kulturnyh-vkljuchaet-mate/
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Belyaeva, M.E. 2019. The Cooperation of Scientific and Local Community in the preservation of traditional knowledge about salmon diversity by the Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic region. Presented at the scientific and practical workshop on the Pacific Salmon in the world of human relationships: economic, social, environmental, historical, ethnic and cultural aspects the scientific and practical workshop, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Elizovo, May 21–22, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Publishing house Kamchatpress, pp. 99-103. https://terrakamchatka.ru/drugie-konferencii/mezhdunarodnyj-nauchno-prakticheskij-seminar-tihookeanskij-losos-v-mire-chelovecheskih-vzaimootnoshenij-jekonomicheskih-socialnyh-jekologicheskih-istoricheskih-jetnicheskih-i-kulturnyh-vkljuchaet-mate/
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2019. Sustainable Socio-Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples. In the regional problems of the Development of the Far East Russia and Arctic: Abstracts of the 1st National (All Russian) science and practical Conference “Moiseev’s Readings”. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Publishing house Kamchatpress. Pp. 229-331. https://terrakamchatka.ru/moiseevskie-chteniya/i-nacionalnaja-vserossijskaja-nauchno-prakticheskoj-konferencija-moiseevskie-chtenija-osobo-ohranjaemye-prirodnye-territorii-kamchatskogo-kraja-sbornik-vkljuchaet-materialy-sostojavshejsja-11-12-dekab/
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2018. Social-economic Aspect Sustainable Development the Northern Sea Route. Russian economy journal. Number 3. Moscow. http://www.e-rej.ru/Articles/2018/Sharakhmatova.pdf
Sharakhmatova, V.N., Petrasheva, V.V. 2017. Digital technologies for conservation of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage of Kamchatka Indigenous Peoples. Regional problems of development of the Far East. Abstracts of the science and practical conference, dedicated to the 8oth anniversary of the R.S. Moiseev’s birthday, December 6-7 2017. – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Publishing house Kamchatpress, Pp .211-213.
Sharakhmatova, V.N. 2016. Indigenous Peoples participation in the Management of Bystrinsky Nature Park, Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage and Role of Civil Society. edited by Stephan Doempke. Pp. 152-155. Berlin: World Heritage World.
Professional Service
A member of the Fourth International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Research Priority Team (RPT)3: Understanding the Vulnerability and Resilience of the Arctic Environments and Societies and Supporting Sustainable Development.