TOTAL COSTS AS A BASIC CATEGORY OF EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE ARCTIC
https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618030032
Abstract
The article is devoted to problems of accounting of natural component of the total costs of economic activities in the Arctic in comparison with other Russian regions. The analysis is based on the allocation two deltas from total costs, in addition to the average sectoral costs, namely, the costs associated with the dynamics of natural systems and the costs associated with natural disasters (irreparable costs or damages). Special attention is paid to the possibilities of the implementation of representative calculations with limited information base. The testing showed the validity of the proposed approach to optimize the distribution of productive forces in the Arctic zone of Russia in the conditions of global changes in nature and society. It is established that all regions of the Arctic, regardless of their economic structure, have an average twice higher share of fuel and energy costs in the real sector than in the southern federal subjects. The proposed methodological approach allows further identifying other geographical cost factors (the cost of overcoming the space, the cost of resources, etc.).
About the Author
V. L. Baburin
Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography,
Moscow
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Baburin V.L. TOTAL COSTS AS A BASIC CATEGORY OF EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE ARCTIC. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(3):18-25. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618030032
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