Modern Methods of Ensuring Sustainable Development of Rural Territories at the Regional Level

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development was widely adopted at the global level of development of society in the world. At the same time transition to sustainable development and giving of irreversible character to it are impossible without complex development of rural territories. In national economy it is necessary to begin development with rise in agriculture. In modern operating conditions of the majority of regions of Russia and its rural territories, development of the methods providing their sustainable development is impossible without active state position on an institutional basis and also on the basis of social and innovative development of territories taking into account their features, the developed specialization and infrastructure. In this research four interconnected methods on ensuring sustainable development of rural territories on the example of the Saratov region are developed. The differential and production method is based on growth of efficiency of agrarian production at use of intensive technologies, increase in a share of crops of perspective highly profitable cultures depending on climatic and economic features of various microzones of the region, on technological re-equipment of branches of crop production. All this will allow to create internal funds of development of production and the social sphere of the village. The innovative and investment method is based on accumulation of means from different sources in regional fund and definition of the directions of the projects focused on development of infrastructure and increase in investment attractiveness and innovative activity. At initiation of projects by authorities, business structures, the population and granting means from Fund, various innovative and investment directions for rural territories taking into account branch specialization of areas and assessment of their requirements will develop. The method of improvement of social infrastructure of the village leans on the tools leading to improvement of infrastructure of municipal units depending on their territorial and branch accessory, level of financing of the social sphere and providing social and engineering infrastructure with objects. The structural and institutional method assumes improvement of management of sustainable development of rural territories and ensuring optimization of decision-making at all levels.