ACHIEVEMENT OF STABILITY OF NORTHERN RURAL TERRITORIES: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE AND ITS APPLICATION IN RUSSIA

DOI 10.32651/194-90

Issue № 4, 2019, article № 13, pages 90-94

Section: Foreign news

Language: Russian

Original language title: ДОСТИЖЕНИЕ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ СЕВЕРНЫХ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ: ЗАРУБЕЖНЫЙ ОПЫТ И ЕГО ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ В РОССИИ

Keywords: SUSTAINABILITY, SMART RURAL COMMUNITIES, TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, DIVERSIFICATION, REINDEER HERDING, HUMAN CAPITAL

Abstract: New approaches on the way for achieving the sustainability of northern rural areas are considered. Especially important for the Russian North may become experience of Finnish Lapland directed towards creating smart northern rural settlements. Especially important for the Russian North may be the experience of Finnish Lapland to create smart and viable northern rural settlements. Also the Scandinavian experience in the berry and mushroom industry may become important. The basis for the development of rural areas in many regions of the Russian North can become domestic reindeer herding based on unique conditions: the presence of vast areas of natural reindeer pastures and the low cost of meat production. All that is needed is a slight state support for the industry, as well as the development of sustainable plans reindeer husbandry, aimed not so much at raising livestock as at creating bases for the deep processing of local reindeer products. A set of measures for the diversification of economic activities to ensure the sustainability of the northern rural areas is proposed. It is based on a combination of traditional economic activities with new for the Russian North crop (primarily gardening), berries and mushrooms plantations, as well as the development of ecological and ethnographic tourism and the souvenirs production. Such diversification will allow attracting human capital to rural areas, especially facilitating arriving of young people and thus ensuring the long-term sustainability of rural areas.

Authors: Volkov Sergei Gennadevich