Conflicts Management in Natural Resources Use and Environment Protection on the Regional Level
Conflicts Management in Natural Resources Use and Environment Protection on the Regional Level

Summary/Abstract: For a long time in the Russian North the biological resources exploitation and a small population density made itpossible to avoid conflicts in the nature sphere. Since the end of the XIX century with active industrial developing ofSiberia there have been appearing the seats of nature use conflicts. The industrial production development and mininghave led to a significant population increasing. Migration, industrial development, environmental damage and naturalresources’ use conflicts have become the main factors affecting environmental economics management and socialeconomicdevelopment on the regional level. In the article the issues of Russian Arctic industrial developing accompaniedby ecological and economic conflicts are considered. Such conflicts are the results of the investment projects realizationon natural resources use. As a rule, the main sides of the ecological and economic conflicts in Arctic are indigenouspeoples losing territories of the traditional nature use and subsoil users (gas, oil, diamonds, rare earth metals etc.). Theauthors offer the conflicts management models which could be used during industrial developing and natural resources’use in Arctic. The problems of the Arctic environmental sustainable development and conflicts mitigation between targetgroups within territories of traditional nature use are also considered.The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)’ experience of the investment industrial projects on natural developing in Arcticzone is analyzed in the paper. The paper aims to develop methods and models of natural resources use, mechanismdevelopment of interests’ coordination of target groups during industrial developing of traditional nature use territories onthe basis of damage assessment and its compensation. The mentioned models allow resolving socio-economic conflictsin practice; negative processes mitigation in social environment; environmental damage minimizing and subsoil users’profit maximizing.

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