Socially oriented monitoring of the sustainability of territorial systems of the North (a case study of the Katangsky district of Irkutsk oblast)
N.E. KRASNOSHTANOVA1, T.K. VLASOVA2
1V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
2Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: monitoring, socio-ecological territorial systems, Arctic, Far North, sustainability
Abstract
The article considers the basic concepts and presents a theoretical overview of approaches and methods for socially oriented monitoring of sustainability of socio-ecological territorial systems of the North and the Arctic. It presents the results of practical application of approaches to data collection and analysis for assessing sustainability of socio-ecological territorial systems in the context of new industrial development using the example of the northernmost municipality of Irkutsk oblast - the Katangsky district, the only one in the region that belongs to the territories of the Far North. Industrial development of natural resources of this region was long held back by its remoteness from developed centers and the lack of infrastructure. After the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean oil pipeline, active industrial development of hydrocarbon deposits discovered in Soviet times and the search for new ones began. As a result of geological exploration, the reserves of raw materials have increased, and the immediate prospects for the development of the region are inextricably linked with the industrial development of natural resources. The conducted socially oriented monitoring of sustainability of socio-ecological territorial systems using multi-scale, interdisciplinary and problem-strategic approaches made it possible to identify the problems of creating sustainable socio-ecological territorial systems of the Katangsky district and to determine the ways of their solution. Industrial development of natural resources of the territory has a significant impact on all components of the socio-ecological system of the territory under study. It has been revealed that a comprehensive solution is required for problems in all three spheres of life of the population of the region: natural-ecological, socio-economic and socio-cultural, as well as administrative-managerial. The documents of strategic development of the Katangsky district contain a number of tasks to increase the sustainability of socio-ecological territorial systems, at the same time, the results of sociological studies to identify the opinion of the local population made it possible to formulate these tasks to a fuller extent.
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