Resource-based Development Research Articles

Human Capital Development Technologies as Resource Base for Industrial Development

Human Capital Development Technologies as Resource Base for Industrial Development

Outlook for the long-term exploitation and development of the gold mineral resource base in the Russian Federation

The current state of the gold mineral resource base of the Russian Federation is considered. The forecast of the mineral resource base development up to 2040 has been performed. Three scenarios is provided for the gold production until 2040. The need is substantiated to intensify early-stage geological exploration in order to reveal new gold ore objects, to prepare the forecasted resources, and to create the “fund of exploration-deserving objects”.

СТРАТЕГІЧНЕ ЗНАЧЕННЯ РІДКІСНОЗЕМЕЛЬНИХ ЕЛЕМЕНТІВ ДЛЯ СУЧАСНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ ТА ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ВІТЧИЗНЯНИХ РОДОВИЩ

In the context of sustainable development, the reorientation of a wide range of technological industries is an inevitable phenomenon that predetermines the perturbations of the established list of raw materials of strategic importance. Changes in priorities are primarily derived from the transition need to innovative approaches in order to solve old problems and ensure all the needs of modern society. So far, integrating into numerous global economic chains, rare earth elements open up a whole range of new opportunities. Within the study information on the main areas of REE use, its market conditions, existing and projected price dynamics were analyzed and summarized; a systematization of stimulating and restraining factors of REE mineral resource base development according to economic, ecological, geological, resource and technological indicators was also made; the connection of the modern "Green Energy Transition" global strategy with the work intensification rate at potential REE mining objects is traced, arguments regarding the primary need to concentrate efforts on replenishing the market for elements of the cerium group, which includes neodymium and praseodymium are given as well. Based on the results of the study, a conclusion regarding the main factors in the development of the REE market was made, and the most promising areas for geological prospecting and mining implementation on the territory of Ukraine were identified.

THE FORMATION OF A CONCEPTUAL AND CATEGORICAL APPARATUS FOR RESEARCH ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SECURITY OF AGRARIAN ENTERPRISES

Initial conceptualization of economic security issues, its systematization, and logicization with the help of basic conceptual structures creates prerequisites for understanding the principles and methods of analysis of manifestations, resource base, and trends of economic security development. Within the framework of various economic paradigms, they are developing their approaches to the content and technology of the cognitive process, its capabilities, and reliability. Taking into account the geostrategic tasks of Ukraine, the experience of implementing the state food security strategy, it is essential to rethink the concept of Ukraine’s national interests in the economic sphere, assess new challenges and threats to economic security and, on this basis, prepare a new state strategy, as well as a mechanism for its implementation. The systems of economic activity, management, and compliance with the economic security of subjects of economic relations differ functionally and spatially. A significant part of economic phenomena, processes, several business entities, and economic relations are beyond the influence of the elements of the economic security system. All this actualizes the problem of analyzing information at the “output”, primarily indicators of the effectiveness of the functioning of enterprises, organizations, individual industries, the quality and standard of living of employees, and the population as a whole, since these indicators act not only as indicators of social and economic well-being but also as criteria, by which it is possible to judge the level of internal threats to ensure sustainable and safe economic development. In the conditions of free market relations, the process of decentralizing the state management system in ensuring economic security, the role of economic managers of agro-industrial complex enterprises and organizations of all forms of ownership, vast and medium, is increasing. The content of this type of management, its functional, technological, and other features, is primarily determined by the state of the country’s economy and its industries as an object of management. Ensuring the economic security of enterprises in the agrarian sector of Ukraine depends on the constituent structures of the agricultural sector since the agrarian sector is closely connected with the entire agrarian complex of the country.

Organizing effective competitive development of enterprises through the formation of a rational base of resource provision: methodological aspect

In order for enterprises not to suffer significant losses by repurposing their activities for the manufacture of products attractive at certain points in time, it is necessary to take into account the compatibility of resource mutual support of the business processes they perform when forming the product range. Such compatibility and interaction should ensure the long-term efficiency of the enterprise and the strategic attractiveness of its products on the market. Accordingly, the object of this study is the process that forms a rational resource base for effective long-term competitive development of the enterprise through the formation of an additional effect. Within the framework of the formed approach, the expediency to use the coefficient of managerial efficiency to choose the necessary source of resource provision (own production or alternative attraction of the necessary resources from an attractive stakeholder) has been proven. The proposed recommendations should be applied to enterprises that use a significant number of parts, assemblies, and components for production; therefore, they have been tested on the activities of a machine-building enterprise. The results confirmed the feasibility of independent production by the studied enterprise of the relevant types of raw materials and the provision of certain services. This made it possible, by rationalizing the assortment policy of the enterprise, to create a closed production cycle and reduce, thereby, its dependence on third-party enterprises, which is extremely relevant under wartime conditions. In addition, the implemented measures made it possible to increase the volume of production of a particular type of product (vacuum pumps) by 10 %, reduce the reserve of production capacity, and ensure the stability of competitive advantages by increasing the service life and quality of individual components of the existing goods of the studied enterprise

High-carbon carbonate-siliceous domanik-type deposits: object of hydrocarbon resource base development in central part of South Tatarsky Arch

High-carbon carbonate-siliceous domanik-type deposits: object of hydrocarbon resource base development in central part of South Tatarsky Arch

ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ СТРАТЕГИЙ ТОРГОВЫХ СЕТЕЙ

in the modern world, retailers face the need to adjust their strategies to the pressure of the external environment, consumer preferences and legislative restrictions. Such a need has arisen throughout the whole history of their development, and those retailers who managed to respond to the challenges of the time in a timely manner and change their development strategies continued to expand and develop. This article is devoted to strategies for the development of retail chains through the study of their activities at different time intervals from the opening of the first stores to the transformation into multinational companies. Five stages of retailers’ development are considered and strategies for each of them are outlined: resource-based development, internationalization (development in international markets), adaptation, consolidation, multichannel. The article examines the cases of the world’s largest retailers – Auchan, Leroy Merlin, Ikea, etc. in order to identify and substantiate the patterns of development in each allocated period of time.

Book Review: Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Book Review: Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

The impact of EU development policy on the governance capability of peripheral regions

Abstract The internal resource-based development of peripheral regions – which are still to be defined precisely and accepted universally – is a constant challenge for the European Union and the Member States, which is difficult to address in the form of a schematic recipe. An important aspect of this complex issue is the existence and success of local governance, which, based on its own internal characteristics alone, can mobilise a community, without which the chances of making further progress are bleak. Governance and the issue of peripheral regions together, at least at the EU level, are reflected in the EU’s development policy. This paper, based on the analysis of EU documents and the Hungarian local and regional experience, aims to investigate whether the European Union is able to assist peripheral regions to catch up, and if so, in what form and through what mechanisms, and what conditions and requirements-related to governance – may be necessary for successful catching up, which may at the same time lead to the success or failure of EU objectives.

Strategic Leadership In Indonesia's Commitment To Building A Blue Economy-Based Marine Economy

Leadership can be seen as an instrument in an effort to influence and control a person or group of people to cooperate in achieving certain goals. The Blue Economy is expected to be able to answer the dependence between the economy and the ecosystem as well as the negative impacts of economic activities including climate change and global warming. The principles contained in the blue economy can be a golden key in national development planning. The purpose of this study is to find out how important strategic leadership is in Indonesia's commitment to building a blue economy-based marine economy. The approach used in this research is qualitative - descriptive with the researcher as the main research instrument and the design approach used is descriptive-explanative. the findings in this study found that the role of leadership is very crucial in realizing the success of development with a blue economy approach, Indonesia's abundant natural resources will be meaningless if there is no role of leaders who are able to manage and mobilize all their potential. It is important that all parties involved are involved in helping to create a prosperous marine economy based on a blue economy. The demand for marine and fishery resource-based development to be used as a driving force in national economic development.

Common pool resource dependency of fisheries based rural households: An evidence from North-east India

The study was conducted in the state of Tripura to investigate common pool resource dependency and found that households involved in collecting common pool resources showed ‘U’ shaped relation with households’ current income in a given year. This indicates poorest and richest were depending more on common pool resources than intermediate income quartile. These results suggest that common pool resources play significant role in generating income for poor as well as rich households. Probit model was used to understand the resource dependency of the sample households which showed that timber wood collection, fodder collection, fuel wood collection, collection of tuber crops and capture fishery had significant impact on improving the household income. The study suggests feasibility of natural resource-based development strategies for alleviating poverty and accumulation of productive assets of rural households. Keywords: Common pool resources, North-east India, Poverty trap, Resource dependence, Resource led development

“Local Content is politics”: An examination of the origins of local content policies in Guinea’s mining sector

In a quest to overcome the resource curse and enclave extractivism, many resource rich countries opt to implement local content policies (LCPs), a popular type of mining reform. LCPs aim to facilitate inclusive resource-based development through the maximization of local direct and indirect employment, as well as the creation of linkages along and beyond the mining value chain. This paper examines why countries like Guinea – a low-income country extremely rich in bauxite and the focus of this article – are designing and implementing LCPs. In so doing, the reasons related to extractivism are highlighted, as well as the political motivations for implementing LCPs.Both reasons expose problematic realities that harm successful LCP design and implementation. First, although the aim of LCPs is to overcome enclave extractivism and resource curse effects, LCPs operate alongside extractivism, thus reinforcing structural deficiencies. Second, the political motivations behind the implementation of LCPs, through a commitment to the African Mining Vision, as well as Guinean LCPs being a top-down presidential political project, make LCP implementation challenging. This Guinean case study showcases the processes through which mining reforms are entangled in national and regional politics and how the reality of ongoing extractivism can undermine reform efforts.

Determination of the risks of rational environmental management in the distribution of transport cargo flows development of the YAMAL resource base

This article raises the issue of the development of the resource base of the Arctic coast of Russia, using the example of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, but in terms of the risks of rational nature management, taking into account the transport support of this development. Identification of risks of the analyzed process takes place in the environment of elements of the socio-economic system. In turn, such a system, the element of which is sustainable development, includes certain environments of influence of risk factors, including economic, technological, political, social. Based on the analytical study of the information, a map of the risk factors of the influence of environmental elements on the possibilities of functioning of the relationships of participants in the rational use of natural resources in the region was built. The result of the study is the application of a scientific organizational and analytical approach to the identification of environmental management problems in regions where there is still insufficient effort to solve such problems.

Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina

ABSTRACT In order to analyse how social movements build alternative futures, this article explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and utopianism. A case study of the ‘Indigenous Women’s Movement for Buen Vivir’ in Argentina will reveal how movement members shape alternative futures, while taking into account how everyday life influences their approaches to the future. Empirical data collected in 2019 shows that members define the present day as a crises-ridden dystopian age, exemplified by the conflicts they face which emerge from the resource-based development model of global capitalism. Extractivist activities are understood as destroyers of the planet and therefore are viewed as an imminent threat to human existence. Hence, the members aim to make the future possible by (re)constructing a reciprocity with nature as well as one between humans and other-than-human beings, in short, to realize Buen Vivir. To unravel how prefigurative practices and utopian imaginations intersect and co-constitute each other, I focus on how Buen Vivir is experienced in the movement through horizontality, spirituality, and autonomy. These experiences are framed by the actors as pre-colonial practices that are reconstructed in the present, as they seek to decolonise capitalist modernity ‘so that there is a future’. This understanding reflects a cyclical temporality that inspires a processual, non-linear view of social change, which accompanies the indigenous women’s ‘prefigurative walking’. Thus, the linking of prefiguration with utopianism helps us in grasping the role of imagination, hopes, and visions for future transformations in the process of building alternative futures.

Центральная Европа: возможные сценарии

The article attempts to assess the possible prospects for the development of the Central European countries. For this purpose, the main economic trends of the Visegrad countries are analyzed, taking into account current forecasts of their future economic growth. Problems of inflation, unemployment, labor productivity are considered. Possible structural shifts in the “four” and the importance of the secondary sector as one of the foundations of its economy are assessed. The resource base of future development is analyzed taking into account demographic trends and investment resources, the foreign component of which is one of the key factors of the Visegrad countries economic growth. One of the most pressing issues of future development is meeting the needs for energy resources, which is still difficult to assess and will have a significant impact on the prospects of the region. The innovation sector is one of the weaknesses of the Central European countries, development dynamics of which indicates that the region is lagging behind and that the situation will continue in the future, which also determines its future development. For the comprehensive assessment of the region SWOT analysis is carries out, classifying the main external and internal conditions and development factors. The analysis made it possible to identify three generalized possible scenarios for the development of the region: “negative”, “basic” and “optimistic”. The base scenarios don’t exclude “mixed” options for the prospects of the Visegrad countries. In addition, for individual members of the “four” their own scenario is possible, which differs from other countries of the region due to the peculiarities of a particular state. Future scenarios influence the relation with Russia, ties with which are already changing significantly.

The Dilemma of the Great Development of Rural Tourism from the Sustainable Environment Perspective

Demand and motivation are powerful indicators of people's decisions and behaviors. Based on the in-depth interviews with 190 relevant stakeholders, the study found that the rural tourism industry is facing three kinds of pressures for continued growth. Under these three pressures, the rural tourism industry tends to “copy” and plunder resource-based development, which restricts the industry's sustainable growth path. Therefore, to continue the development of the rural tourism industry, we need to create a development path suitable for the sustainable development of rural tourism from three aspects: system, atmosphere construction, and market orientation.

Small step, great rewards: rethinking mining sustainability from old perspectives to new frames

ABSTRACT There are increasing number of abandoned mines, which has gradually become a striking challenge for sustainable development and resource recycling. Safety risks and environmental pressures have obliged the mining industry to achieve the secondary development of mines. This paper builds a conceptual framework for abandoned mine resource utilization, and then denotes the 5 R principles (remining, recovery, redevelopment, reutilization, and recycling) and the energy-based, resource-based and function-based development patterns for scientific resource deployment with abandoned mines. Decision factors are investigated from four types of reutilization modes with 43 indicators, which can be classified as economy, resource potential, geography and safety. An integrated analytic hierarchy process (ANP) and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) model are employed to explore the suitable reutilization methods for abandoned mines. The results from the case study show that suitable temperature conditions and technical problems are the top two decisive factors with weights of 0.3178 and 0.1604 respectively. The best strategy for a stone pit is to develop the service industry, which is valued at 20.99% in the seven strategies. The findings of this research indicate the urgent task of abandoned mine database construction and the significance of social performance management for mine closure. Implications are advanced for sustainable management and abandoned mine resource conservation, which help to implement low-carbon transition in the mining sector from the life cycle and cradle-to-cradle perspectives while achieving socioeconomic development and the transformation of resource-based cities.

The Influence of Government Controlled DMOs on Destination Competitiveness: the Case of Belarus

ABSTRACT Belarus is facing unprecedented conflict as it attempts to shed its communist ideals and move towards a free society. This paper investigates the challenges facing Belarus in negotiating its identity, specifically in the realm of tourism management and marketing. Using a destination competitiveness model, this paper attempts to highlight the realities within its governance system, including the division of labor of management responsibilities, the focus on command-and-control administrative philosophies, and inadequate tourism knowledge that has led to one of the lowest visitation rates in Europe and declining tourism receipts. Qualitative interviews and informal gatherings, coupled with previous literature on Belarus, informs this research. Results show that Belarus is in a first-generational stage of management, yet is moving from a market-based approach to a resource-based development and marketing sphere. The primary barrier to tourism development lies in the bureaucratic top-down structure, tightly controlled function, and management focus inherent its Soviet history.

The economic and social impact of mining-resources exploitation in Zambia

Mining resources (mainly copper), whose extraction and export were initiated during colonial times, have played an important role in the economy of Zambia, a landlocked country in central-southern Africa. This country faces serious development challenges, especially regarding economic structural transformation, deficient public goods, and high poverty. The question arises as to what extent the mining natural resource has contributed or not to tackle these challenges. More specifically, how public action has intervened for addressing them. The analysis is based on the A.O. Hirschman's linkages theory and on some of the resource curse assumptions. The general conclusion is that returns from mining resources has been modest in Zambia, even adverse in some respects, and that a hypothetical resource-based development has not taken place in the country.

Personnel training for the mining and geological sector of Russia

Mineral resource base development objectively requires high-quality human resources for mining and geological sector. A brief analysis of the geological sector development tendencies and ongoing projects demonstrates the scale of technological challenges facing the sector. Over the past decades, Russia has been facing serious problems that can become constraining factors in economic development, regional development, and the implementation of national projects. Training of specialists for the sector is one of the challenges. In order to solve such a complex problem, Federal State Educational Standards for training of specialists in the specialties “Applied Geology”, “Geological Exploration Technique” were developed. The Educational Standards provide for the formation of future geologists’ professional competencies relevant to the industry. Comparison of the competence models of the Standards with the main priority lines of the development of science and technologies in framework of the implementation of the state scienti fi c and technological policy of Russia shows that they allow universities to form programs for geologist training that respond to modern challenges. Internship ( fi eld training) programs play a special role in ensuring the quality of training for geologists. They play a decisive role in the formation of universal and professional competencies and open the world of a subculture of professionals in this fi eld to the future specialists that is very important for a young person who devotes his future to geology. The paper highlights a signi fi cant role of the government, the academic and professional community – universities, companies, research and public organizations – in the formation of human resources for the mining and geological sector. An urgent need was identi fi ed for the creation of a domestic system of professional quali fi cations (mining engineer, mining engineer-geologist, mining engineer -hydrogeologist, mining engineer for drilling wells, mining engineer-geochemist, mining engineer-geophysicist, etc.), which should ensure harmonization of the requirements for the level of specialist competence for the industry.