Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the resource potential of sustainable rural development in two regions of the Russian Federation, namely, the Altay territory (which is an agricultural region) and the Kemerovo region (an industrial region with an auxiliary role of agriculture). Agriculture is predominantly developing in agricultural areas represented by a comprehensive complex of resources. The lack of systemic approach in agricultural development has led to the irrational distribution of productive forces, inferior development of social and household infrastructure, and other imbalances having adverse effects on agricultural economic performance and living conditions in rural areas. To address this problem, the authors have developed an original method of resource potential analysis for rural areas, including a combination of economic, social, and infrastructure indicators.
Highlights
Rural areas make a crucial socioeconomic subsystem of society
The subject relevance lies in the fact that economically stable and socially advanced rural areas make the stronghold of national stability, independence, and food security, which means that the vector of their development makes a priority of national policies
The issues of sustainable development, rational natural management, and common prosperity have repeatedly become the topic of UN Conferences on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Agenda 21 Convention, n/d.)
Summary
Rural areas make a crucial socioeconomic subsystem of society. They have their specific profile, objectives, goals, principles, and development criteria. The expansion of urban agglomerations as a result of migration from rural areas leads to declines in rural producer numbers, lower used land rates, and, reliance on imports for food supplies (Ivanova, 2014). We believe solving these problems should involve the formulation of forward-looking rural development policy. There may be two directions of research, i.e., sustainable development with a clear environmental focus and rural development in terms of social aspects and complex development patterns of rural areas The former is primarily a focus of environmental researchers analysing resource potential as the foundation for the preservation of the biosphere (Trotskovskii, 2013)
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