Study and development of strategic extractable resources within socioeconomically oriented full-cycle projects

Abstract

An approach to managing the processes of studying, developing, and using the vast mineral resource potential of Russia is presented. These processes in the modern economy are increasingly focused on achieving high social, environmental, and economic returns. The latter are characterized not only by the possibility to produce certain goods and services and achieve related financial and economic results owing to the availability of rental income but also by the prospect of implementing a purposeful structural and comprehensive scientific and technological policy. The scale and role of the mineral resource sector and the natural resource sector in general are so significant that steps and measures in the scientific, technological, innovation- oriented, and educational fields within its framework become of decisive importance for the economy as a whole. From this standpoint, the processes of studying, developing, and using a significant part of minerals are of strategically critical. An approach to solving major problems of transforming the structure of the country’s economy not at the expense but with the help of natural resources is substantiated and proposed.