BIOSPHERE RESERVES OF RUSSIA AS AN OBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
The relevance of the selected issues is due to the growing lag of research on sustainable development. The purpose of the article is the theoretical substantiation of the biosphere reserve as a quasi-scientific subject of research, which corresponds to the norms of scientific activity. The leading approach to the study of this problem is to use the activity-theoretical approach. Sustainable development is considered as a reproducible process. The authors analyze the main types of research models in the biosphere reserve. A distinction has been made between the purpose of the biosphere reserve: a) in the geopolitical strategy of sustainable development; b) in the methodology of scientific research.
Keywords: biosphere reserve, biosphere proving ground, activity, research subject, sustainable development.
Highlights:
♦ sustainable development activities can be implemented through modern biosphere proving grounds. The key difference is the process of their creation (and not joining) within biosphere reserves;
♦ a biosphere proving ground should not be limited to a research profile. On the one hand, this follows from the requirements of UNESCO, which emphasizes the importance of the scientific, the economic, as well as the social aspect of sustainable development. On the other hand, this requirement is forced by the ontology of activity for the objects of sustainable development described in this article;
♦ the management line of the biosphere reserve can be implemented under two scenarios. Scenario 1: cooperation of all actors of the biosphere reserve (social, state, economic, etc.) in order to organize specialized activities of sustainable development. This scenario assumes the cooperation of the above-named subjects by means of new forms (for example, partnership). Scenario 2: modeling of new-type objects in the biosphere reserve by attracting science, sustainable development and their implementation in practices.
Gabibulla R. Khasaev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Rector of Samara State University of Economics; Marina Yu. Sadovenko, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.