Social Investing Modeling for Sustainable Development of the Russian Arctic

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Andrey Novoselov, Ivan Potravny, Irina Novoselova, Violetta Gassiy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: sustainable development; social and economic development; social investing; modeling; Arctic; Russia; scipo; demo; Taimyr
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020933; https://doaj.org/article/c80231c6552a412697458881e3e7e78e

The method of the social investing of the Arctic subsoil users is considered in this article. As the portfolio of social investments is formed based on the interests of indigenous peoples, the authors used expert assessment and sociological research for social investing modeling. A two-stage procedure for forming a portfolio of such projects is proposed. An approach has also been developed for assessing and selecting investment projects for the Arctic sustainable development according to different criteria of optimality. The authors substantiate the need for a new approach to sustainable development of the Arctic, based not on compensation for the negative consequences of industrial development used in many countries, but on social investment. In this article the proposed approach is tested on the case of the Arctic indigenous community in Taimyr and the optimal social investing portfolio is justified.