Prospects for Sustainable Development of the Forest Industry Complex of Kostroma Oblast
https://doi.org/10.7868/S2658697525050083
Abstract
The forestry complex is one of the leading and promising in the economy of the Near North regions of European Russia, including Kostroma oblast. Transformation processes associated with modernization, institutional and macroeconomic transformations, changed geopolitical situation have had a significant impact on it. The purpose of this study is to identify promising strategic opportunities to improve the socioeconomic situation in the Near North of European Russia, taking into account modern realities and potential vectors of development of the region’s forestry complex of Kostroma oblast. Statistical and literary sources, forest planning documents were analysed, and a number of interviews with forest users of Kostroma oblast were conducted. The main trends and problems the forestry industry complex of the region is currently facing have been identified, and recommendations for further development of the forestry industry in the region have been proposed. Possible transformations in the forestry complex of the region have been discussed, such as the transition from extensive to intensive model of forest use and reproduction, revision of the relationship between the state as the owner of the forest fund and tenants, allowing private forestry and forest management on abandoned overgrown agricultural lands.
Keywords
timber industry complex,
transformation of forest management,
sustainable forest management,
Near North of European Russia
Supporting agencies: The research was carried out at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 24-17-00129 “Prospects of Socioeconomic and Nature-Conscious Development of the Near North of Russia”.
About the Authors
E. A. Shvarts
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
M. N. Oreshkina
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
A. S. Baibar
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Shvarts E.A., Oreshkina M.N., Baibar A.S. Prospects for Sustainable Development of the Forest Industry Complex of Kostroma Oblast. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2025;89(5):809-827. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S2658697525050083
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