The “Shield” of the Sacred Sea

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-162
Author(s):  
Alan D. Roe
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Lake Baikal ◽  
General Public ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
State Support ◽  
Southern Shore

During the mid-1960s, industrial development on the southern shore of Lake Baikal raised grave concerns among scientists, writers, and the general public. These concerns prompted geographers, architectural institutes, economists, and others to develop plans for national parks (or a single park) on Baikal’s shoreline. Although the ideas for Baikal’s parks varied, their supporters believed they would orient the regional economy to tourism and stave off future industrial development. In the years after the establishment of Zabaikal’skii and Pribaikal’skii National Parks in 1986, the USSR’s political and economic crisis resulted in the neglect of these parks. Supporters of Baikal’s parks turned to foreign support, especially after the USSR’s collapse, only to realize that without state support it would yield minimal results. While few planned Russian national parks were more ambitious in scope, perhaps none were more disappointing to a broad swathe of Russian environmentalists than those around Lake Baikal.

scholarly journals INDUSTRIAL PARKS AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR MODERNIZING REGIONAL ECONOMY

2017 ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Roman Chornyi ◽  
Halyna Rumiantseva
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
State Support ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Technological Modernization

The importance of implementing a consistent policy of encouraging the development of industrial parks in Ukraine as a synergetic mechanism for stimulating investment and innovation activity, which has a systemic multi-purpose impact on the economy, contributes to structural and technological modernization and, at the same time, acts as a powerful engine of local and regional development. The essence of industrial (industrial) parks is highlighted, which will allow to carry out industrial modernization of the country and regions and restore the competitiveness of the national commodity producer in the global investment market. Features of mechanisms of state support of industrial parks in Ukraine and abroad are revealed. The mechanism of creation and functioning of domestic industrial parks with specification of models of management by such territorial entities in the context of world experience is proposed.

INSTITUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY IN THE VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2332-2351
Author(s):  
N.A. Voronina ◽  
◽  
A.N. Kara ◽  
L.V. Syrnikova ◽  
N.Y. Shadchenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
State Support ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Investment Projects

The development of an entrepreneurial environment and entrepreneurial initiative is a priority task for the socio-economic development of the country as a whole and its individual regions. Its implementation is possible, among other things, by supporting and developing entrepreneurial initiatives from the state. At the same time, the sustainability of economic growth in individual regions is largely determined by the effectiveness of the implementation of the economic development strategy adopted at the regional level and the practice of activities of economic entities operating on their territory. The article presents the materials of theoretical studies of areas of activity and empirical studies of the results of the activities of federal institutions created to activate innovative processes and implement investment projects in the regions. The presented results of the analysis of the activities of such institutions, expressed in the types and volumes of state support for economic entities, made it possible to identify and formulate the following conclusions: 1) enterprises of the Volga Federal District actively interact with such organizations and institutions as the autonomous non-profit organization Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects, State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank), “AO Russian Export Center”, “AO Russian Venture Company”, Industrial Development Fund, Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology, RUSNANO Group; 2) due to active participation in the programs and projects of these organizations, the Volga Federal District is in the group of leaders in terms of the main economic indicators. The practical significance of the obtained research results lies in the formation of an idea of the mechanisms and instruments for the implementation of state support for entrepreneurial initiative, based on the interaction of economic entities with federal development institutions.

scholarly journals Why travel motivations and socio-demographics matter in managing a National Park

Koedoe ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melville Saayman ◽  
Andrea Saayman
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Pseudo Panel ◽  
The World ◽  
Travel Motivations ◽  
Tourism Destinations

The Addo Elephant National Park is one of only a few national parks in the world that offers the Big 7 experience and is therefore one of South Africa’s prime tourism destinations. The park plays an important role in the regional economy and has become a hub for tourism development. The aim of this article is to determine the extent to which socio-demographic and behavioural and motivational indicators influence the spending of tourists to the park. A better understanding of the latter could help marketers and planners to increase the economic impact of the park. Since 2001, surveys have been conducted among tourists to the park and have included a number of socio-demographic, behavioural and motivational questions. In this analysis, 537 questionnaires were used. The methodology used includes factor analysis, cross-sectional regression analysis and pseudo-panel data analysis to determine and compare possible influences on spending. The research identifies six motives for tourists travelling to the Addo Elephant National Park; these are nature, activities, family and socialisation, escape, attractions and photography. The research found that a combination of socio-demographic and motivational factors influences visitor spending decisions. Added to this, the research confi rms that tourist attractions, including national parks, differ from one another and that the variables that influence spending therefore also differ.

Press Subsidies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mart Ots ◽  
Robert G. Picard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Initiative ◽  
State Support ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
The World ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Due to its function as a watchdog or fourth estate in democratic societies and a variety of commercial challenges, policy-makers have undertaken initiatives to support the production and distribution of news. Press subsidies are one such policy initiative that particularly aims to provide support to private news producers. Paid as direct cash handouts or indirect reduced taxes and fees, they exist in some form in almost every country in the world. Subsidies are not uncontroversial, their effectiveness is unclear, and their magnitude, designs, and areas of application, differ across nations and their unique economic, cultural, and political contexts. After periods of declining political and public interest in media subsidies, the recent economic crisis of journalism, and the rising influence of various forms of click-bait, fake, native, or biased news on social media platforms, has brought state support of original journalism back on the agenda.

To the Question of Comparison of Objective and Subjective Estimations of the Region's Security with Objects of Social Infrastructure

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
И. Сычева ◽  
I. Sycheva ◽  
Н. Сычева ◽  
N. Sycheva
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Econometric Models ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
State Program

The aim of the work was to demonstrate the possibility of forming a strategy of innovative development of the region that could accelerate the transition of the regional economy to the dominance of new technological structures. By constructing econometric models of economic dynamics, the timelines for starting the pre-mining of the fifth mode in the economy of the Tula region are estimated. The strategy of accelerating the innovative development of the region’s economy are described. The strategy is based on the program-target approach, reflected in the state program of industrial development in the Tula region. The effectiveness of the program is shown.

scholarly journals Institutional Approaches to Supporting Entrepreneurship in the Pandemic (COVID-19) and Economic Crisis

2020 ◽  
pp. 056-060
Author(s):  
H. R. N. Al Garbawi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
National Economy ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
State Support ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
Crisis Support

The main provisions of the concept of anti-crisis support for entrepreneurship in Russia are considered by analyzing the factors of political and economic sustainability of the development of the national economy. An institutional approach to providing state support for entrepreneurship in the context of the global economic crisis and other external factors that negatively affects the national economy (COVID-19) is proposed. Possible risks for regional economies are identified.

scholarly journals Research on the Impact of Regional Economy on Industrial Development from the Perspective of Big Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lu Zhang ◽  
Dong Zhao ◽  
Siheng Li ◽  
Han Xiao ◽  
Jianjun Bu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Reduction Process ◽  
Data System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Beibu Gulf ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The Impact

In order to study the driving force of China’s rapid economic development in the past ten years, the study takes Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi as a case study, focusing on the big data assets exchange (GBDEx) and Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, and discusses the impact of Internet plus economic and government data and the big data system on regional economy. Finally, it is believed that the Internet and big data fully avoid the disadvantages of traffic distance between the western region and the eastern region, make full and efficient cooperation between enterprises and institutions in the central and western regions and Chinese and foreign economic entities, and strengthen the control of economic behavior from the big data level with the support of the service-oriented government. The information entropy output from the Internet big data system has led to a significant entropy reduction process in China’s economic environment and a more orderly economic system, which is also an important reason for the rapid development of China’s economy.

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