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DOI 10.21440/2307-2091-2016-3-115-118

Land resources of the Arctic regions: economic assessment and use pdf

V. G. Loginov, V. V. Balashenko, O. S. Bryantseva

Economic evaluation of land resources is urgent and, presently, an unsolved problem. In modern conditions, economic evaluation of natural resources is one of the priority tasks of the state strategy of nature management. The development of market relations in our country largely contributed to actualization of economic assessment, and this predetermined the presence of the monetary valuation of natural resource potential. State cadastral valuation of land resources in the country, ongoing for two decades, is the basis for the calculation of land taxes for certain categories of lands. The article presents the concept of economic valuation of natural resources. The object of evaluation are the land resources of the Ural areas of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District – the most important area of development of reindeer herding, not only in the region, but also in the country. The authors performed a retrospective analysis of the status of the land fund of the examined territory, which shows a significant potential for the development of pastures of reindeers. This article describes the influence of increasing population of reindeer herds on the state of pastures and their degradation due to overgrazing. Author’s recommendations on economic evaluation suggest its implementation on the basis of a productive approach that ensures comparability of payments and an increase of the reliability of obtained results. The proposed methodological approach of estimating the land resources allows taking into account the specific features of the Arctic territories. The article contains a specific calculation of the economic evaluation of land resources of the Ural regions. However, this approach accurately reflects the situation upon condition of keeping balance between the number of animals’ population and pasture resources. Using the proposed methodological approach allows to perform a valuation assessment of reindeer pasture areas, which differs by the degree of animal load per area unit.

Keywords: land resources; Arctic regions; economic evaluation; reindeer pastures; deer capacity.

 

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