Review of the monograph “The Arctic: a Development Strategy”

• Published in: Arctic and North
• Main Author: Leonid A. Vaisberg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Northern Arctic Federal University 2019
• Subjects: a review; a monograph; the russian arctic; the arctic zone of the russian federation; hist; scipo; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.36.128; http://www.arcticandnorth.ru/upload/iblock/679/102_103.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/03fbd847bf57432f83257d784d22c458

The review emphasizes the key features of the monograph “The Arctic: Development Strategy”, prepared by experts of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and NArFU named after M.V. Lomonosov. The authors developed a systematic analysis of the development issues of the Russian Arctic and the state development efforts in this macro-region. They studied the preferential regimes of economic activities and the role of mineral resource centers as important drivers of socio-economic development. According to the reviewer, the monograph is of interest both to specialists and to a wide range of readers.