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Course “Sustainable Regional Development” (English)
Lecturer: Professor Leonard, C. S., Chair of Department, professor Ilina, I.N., professor
Lopatnikov D.L., associate professor Khoreva O.B., Pliseckij E.E.
3- rd course
This “discipline” focuses on the theory and practical challenges in governing for sustainable
regional development in Russia’s regions. The concept of sustainable regional development
includes a wide focus on diverse geographic environments (Siberia, the North, the South,
European Russia and the Far East) and a contemporary focus on challenges of globalization to
which regions must respond. It explores organizational and cognitive proximity (linking
development across boundaries and sectors in an ecosystem approach). This course will also
focus by case studies on actual challenges for sustainable growth, including the development of
services and sectors, such as tourism, and trade-offs between resource development and
environmental protection. It emphasizes governance for skill development and synergies across
sections and communities to foster innovative milieu. It shows advantages of strategic
coordination for the development of clusters. A central course objective is to foster an
understanding of the links between the workplace and region in the pursuit of sustainable
development and shared prosperity.
The thematic structure of the course:
1. Basic concepts and theories of the course
2. The economic geography of sustainable regional development
3. Global Issues in Regional Sustainable Development
4. Social welfare and quality of life in Russia's regions
5. Investment strategy for sustainable regional development
6. The cluster approach to sustainable regional development
7. IT and Networking for sustainable regional development
8. Private/public partnering for sustainable regional development
9. The ecology of sustainable regional development in Russia
10. Reshaping the regional image for sustainable development
11. Fiscal federalism and sustainable regional development
12. Regional programs of sustainable development as instrument of regional policy in
Russia
13. Circumpolar cooperation in the form of Sustainable Development
Level of the course:
Elective course
Prerekvizitnye disciplines:
Fundamentals of the regional Economics and Development Management of territories, Northern
Russia: Geography and Economics of Development.