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Estimation of sustainable development of Russia's Northern regions by demographic indicators

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V.V. Fauzer, The Institute of the socio-economic and energy problems of the North, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia, Ph.D., Professor, the head of the laboratory of demographic and social management, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; http://vvfauzer.ru

T.S. Lytkina, The Institute of the socio-economic and energy problems of the North, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia, Ph.D., senior researcher of laboratory of demographic and social management, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A.V. Smirnov, The Institute of the socioeconomic and energy problems of the North, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia, researcher of laboratory of demographic and social management, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

G.N. Fauzer, The Institute of the socio-economic and energy problems of the North, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Syktyvkar, Russia, researcher of laboratory of demographic and social management, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The article describes theoretical positions of the concept of sustainable development on a planetary scale. The transition to sustainable development was caused by the entire course of the social and economic development of the world community. The contradictions between the needs of the population, the possibilities of the economy and the planet's ability to conserve biodiversity without external intervention have reached a critical point. Increased inequality within and between countries in the twentieth century. The distribution of opportunities, wealth and power is characterized by huge imbalances. Gender inequality remains a key challenge. Understanding these contradictions, the world community, under the auspices of the United Nations, adopts the fundamental documents defining the goals and objectives of human development until 2015 and then until 2030. Agenda 21 encouraged to develop the concept of sustainable development indicators by all countries and international organizations. The article considers six systems of indicators for the estimation of sustainable development. Despite the complexity of measurement of sustainable development, indicators for estimation of demographic processes are not fully represented. They are "one-sided" and do not reflect all aspects of demographic dynamics. In this connection, the authors propose approaches for assessing sustainable development based on demographic indicators. Two approaches differentiate the Northern regions in terms of demographic sustainability into four groups: critical, low, medium and high. It is noted that all the northern regions from 2000 to 2015 improved their demographic stability and that all the years it was higher than the average Russian level. In the future, it is necessary to develop an integrated indicator to reveal the impact of demographic and labor factors on the sustainable development of the Northern regions.

Keywords. Russian North, sustainable development, concepts, goals, objectives, system of indicators, demographic factors and indicators, ranking.

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For citation: V.V. Fauzer, T.S. Lytkina, A.V. Smirnov, G.N. Fauzer, Estimation of sustainable development of Russia's Northern regions by demographic indicators // Corporate governance and innovative economic development of the North: Bulletin of the Research Center of Corporate Law, Management and Venture Capital of Syktyvkar State University. 2018. № 2. P. 71-89.