This article provides an historical account and analysis of the repurposing of Ny-Ålesund from Arctic coalmining settlement to Norwegian-administered international research base in Svalbard. Three levels of analysis are employed to explain the settlement’s transformation and its rising geopolitical significance, focusing primarily on the period of rapid internationalisation and expansion of scientific activities starting in the late 1980s. The local level examines Norway’s efforts to maintain effective occupation of greater Kongsfjorden by promoting research, underpinned by the economisation of the area’s near-pristine natural environment as a non-extractive resource for science; the global level applies the concept of telecoupling to consider the role of events and processes at larger spatial scales that facilitated Ny-Ålesund’s transformation; and the “glocal” level explains how the interaction of Norwegian and global actors in the locality of Ny-Ålesund have collectively shaped the community’s institutions over some 30 years. The article also reflects on recent policy changes signalling more assertive Norwegian administration and greater coordination of research in Ny-Ålesund.

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文明程度更高？新奥勒松从斯瓦尔巴群岛的北极采煤定居点转变为北纬 79° 的全球环境知识中心

本文提供了从北极煤矿定居点到挪威管理的斯瓦尔巴群岛国际研究基地重新利用新奥勒松的历史记录和分析。采用三个层次的分析来解释定居点的转变及其不断上升的地缘政治意义，主要关注从 1980 年代后期开始的快速国际化和科学活动扩展的时期。地方层面检查挪威通过促进研究以维持对大孔峡湾的有效占领的努力，该研究以该地区近乎原始的自然环境作为非开采科学资源的经济为基础；全球层面应用远程耦合的概念来考虑在更大空间尺度上促进新奥勒松转型的事件和过程的作用；“全球本地化”层面解释了 30 多年来，挪威和全球参与者在新奥勒松地区的互动如何共同塑造了该社区的机构。这篇文章还反映了最近的政策变化，这表明挪威政府更加自信，新奥勒松的研究更加协调。