Section

Economic, social, political and recreational geography

Title

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF ECONOMIC ESTIMATION OF NATURAL POTENTIAL OF THE TERRITORY OF REGIONS

Сontributors

A. A. Loginov, Ph. D. (Chemistry), Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Scientific researcher, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

I. N. Lykov, Ph. D. (Biology), Dr. Habil., Professor, Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Scientific Supervisor, the Institute of Natural Science; Head of the Chair of Botany, Microbiology and Ecology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of the methodology of economic evaluation of the natural and resource potential of the regions. All known approaches to determining the category of economic potential and options for classifying natural resources are summarized.

Given all the features of each region of Russia, most of them have more similarities than differences, and will have common patterns of economic calculation of the natural resource potential. The work was carriedout in the case study of the “ordinary, average” region, i.e. the Kaluga Region.

It is noted that the realization of the potential, as a combination of available means and capabilities, presupposes activities in the future. Accordingly, in calculating the potential, it is necessary to take into account its possible changes in time.

The approaches to the assessment of changes in different types of natural resource potential over time are considered: accounting the ratios of currently used minerals and their proven reserves, the determination of the multi-year trend of changes in the status of other natural resources. A complex and multidirectional nature of the impact of human activities on natural resources that significantly complicates the prediction of natural-resource potential is recorded.

The authors proposed the environmentally-focused classification of natural resource potential, which is the most appropriate and convenient from the point of view of the considered features of economic calculations.

Keywords

Methodology of economic evaluation, economic potential, ecological approach, natural resources, region.

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