Ecological‐geographic aspects of the economics of nature management (with particular reference to the north)

Abstract

Abstract Soviet economists, in investigating the cost of nature management in the North (meaning the whole complex of the use, protection and renewal of the environment and of natural resources), have been concerned mainly with developing an economic mechanism that would induce industrial managers to take a greater interest in environmental problems. This approach often neglects regional ecological factors that cannot be readily quantified, such as the role played by the northern regions in global ecology as a largely unpolluted segment of the earth's surface and the particular sensitivity of the northern environment Geographers are called upon to play a more important part in studying the cost‐effectiveness of northern development by using their analytical methods in incorporating some of these qualitative factors into the analysis.