North hardship conditions rating in research works and regional policy (on examples of the regions related to resources)

• Published in: Economy of Region
• Main Author: Vitaliy Nikolaevich Lazhentsev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch 2012
• Subjects: science; North; regional policy; social and economic relations; natural and resource potential; sustainable development; Regional economics. Space in economics; HT388; Arctic; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17059/2012-4-1; https://doaj.org/article/4eadc4002bc24c6d8749845026c6059a

The influence of peculiar features of the North and the Arctic on formation of scope of research works and the directions of regional policy is shown. The assessment of cold (climatic discomfort, permafrost, etc.), periferieness, high natural and resource potential, ethnicity is directed on the studying of traditional problems of demography, the organization of the relations between corporations and territories, the tax and budgetary providing. The problem of choice of measurement techniques of level of economic and social condition is especially allocated. The attempt to coordinate raw specialization of the northern and the arctic regions with the solution of strategic problems of their sustainable development is made.