Sustainability Assessment of Social and Economic Development of Municipalities in the Voronezh Region

Natalia V Yakovenko,Roman V Ten,Igor V Komov

doi:10.3390/su131911116

Abstract

In Russia, the issue of improving socio-economic sustainability of municipalities in the region through the assessment of its indicators are particularly relevant. The aim of this work is to assess the sustainability of socio-economic development of municipalities in the Voronezh region. The paper uses a systematic approach for a comprehensive, structured and dynamic study of the state of socio-economic sustainability of municipalities in the region. This approach uses the methods of classification and comparative analysis. The authors propose a methodology for assessing the sustainability of socio-economic development of the region’s municipalities. The results of calculating the integral sustainability index indicate the presence of five groups of municipalities, characterized by a particular degree of socio-economic sustainability, ranging from high to crisis. The proposed methodology for assessing the sustainability of socio-economic development of municipalities allows us to highlight the problematic parameters of socio-economic development within the municipalities themselves and to identify the main strategic objectives on the way to a single strategic goal: improving the level and quality of life of the population. Regional policy measures to equalize the level of socio-economic development should be designed, taking into account the identified features of the territorial development of municipal districts.

Highlights

Significant contributions to the development of a framework of indicators and tools for assessing the sustainability of territories have been made by international and regional organizations: The Driving Force-State-Response (DSR) model developed by the United
We propose to distinguish five clusters according to the level of socio-economic sustainability of municipalities: high level of socio-economic sustainability, above average level of socio-economic sustainability, medium level of socio-economic sustainability, low level of socio-economic sustainability, and crisis level of socio-economic sustainability
In contrast to Russian methodologies, Borisoglebsky, Rossoshansky, Kalacheevsky municipal districts); foreign integral assessments do not include formulations related to the concept of “susmedium level of socio-economic sustainability

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Introduction

The global processes of globalization and regionalization, on the one hand, and the processes of market transformation of the economy and modernization of federal relations in Russia, on the other hand, determine their multidirectional and contradictory impact on the sustainability of regional socio-economic systems within a single national market space. In this regard, there is an objective need to develop regional sustainable development management models in order to aggregate these consistently into, first, an emergent inter-regional model and, into a national model. The problem of sustainable development at the mega- and macrolevels is mainly considered from the anthropocentric approach, which focuses on reconciling the goals of socio-economic development with the limited capacity of the ecological system

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