Natural Resources Potential of Northern Regions: Consistent Features of Comprehensive Assessment
The economic evaluation of renewable natural resources is the urgent and unsolved problem. Today, the assessment of natural resources is a priority for the national strategy of environmental management. In our country, a great influence on this process was provided by the development of market rel...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Экономика региона |
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| Online Access: | http://www.economyofregion.com/archive/2015/57/2711/pdf/ |
| Summary: | The economic evaluation of renewable natural resources is the urgent and unsolved problem. Today, the assessment of
natural resources is a priority for the national strategy of environmental management. In our country, a great influence on this
process was provided by the development of market relations, causing the necessity to evaluate the natural resources potential.
The state cadastral evaluation of natural resources is the basis for land tax, but it does not allow to assess comprehensively the
natural resources potential. The article reveals the concept of economic evaluation, describes its implementation in the Northern
regions. In the paper, the authors consider the traditional methodological approaches to the economic evaluation: cost and its
modification, rent, market and alternative ones as well as the approaches based on the results of sociological research widely
used lately. Also, the methodological approaches using the results of sociological research are utilized. For the assessment of the
natural resources, the authors recommend the effective approaches that ensure the comparability calculations and improvement
of the reliability of results. The proposed methodological approaches to the measurement of land, forestry, hunting, fishery and
biological resources of wild plants allow to take into account the specific features of the Northern territories and implement
a comprehensive economic assessment of natural resources potential of the territory. The authors consider the calculation of
the unit value index of natural resources potential to rank the Northern territories of the Russian Federation according to the
proportionality of project investment for development of natural resources. Methodological recommendations are approved for
the conditions of the Berezovsky municipal region of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra. |
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| ISSN: | 2072-6414 2411-1406 |