Improvement of land management mechanisms for specially protected areas and objects by the example of the Khabarovsk Territory

Abstract

The Russian Federation possesses significant natural areas, whose legal status is often ambiguous, and the natural recreational and tourist potential is not fully utilized. Specially protected natural areas are often located on land plots that fall into different categories of land, which entails the emergence of various management issues that require the most optimal solutions. The article presents material that concerns the process of transforming forest lands into lands of other categories in the Russian Federation, with the aim of developing and improving the system of state forest management and ensuring its international obligations in the field of environmental protection. This process is considered by the example of the protected area “Shantar Islands” in the Khabarovsk Territory. The practical significance lies in the fact that the developed proposals for the spatial development of the protected area provide for the creation of a tourist center.