Assessment Issues of Sustainability of Rural Area Development Under Digitalization Conditions

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sustainable development, rural areas, scenario approach, assessment procedure, digitalization of economy

Abstract

Sustainable development of rural areas in the current economic conditions is attracting close attention not only in Russia but throughout the world. At the same time, the problem of choosing indicators and the mechanism for assessing the dynamics of sustainable development of rural territories at each level is particularly urgent. The same discussion is caused by the need and the possibility of polycentric development of regions, differentiation of urban and rural areas, as well as the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in terms of development levels. The purpose of this study is to formulate a methodology for the sustainable development of rural areas and justify the efficiency of its practical use in the system of implementing regional and departmental programs and the potential of local self-government. The issues of digitalization of this process in the current economic conditions are of particular importance. In this regard, to assess the development of rural areas, the authors propose an approach that allows not only selecting key assessment indicators, but also defining the achieved and potentially achievable levels of development of a specific territory. The main approach for assessing the level of development of rural territories is chosen to be the scenario approach as the basis for differentiating the type of development of rural areas: highly sustainable, sustainable and unstable, which can also be used to monitor the path of long-term development, and the universality of the method allows it being applied to all parts of the country, regardless of their type and size. Moreover, the achievement of an inertial scenario within the framework of an unstable type of development is the basis for diagnosing the controllability of the territory’s strategy at the appropriate level of structural organization.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A.V. Agibalov
AU  - L.A. Zaporozhtseva
AU  - Yu.V. Tkacheva
AU  - T.V. Sabetova
AU  - R.O. Tolstolutckii
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/30
TI  - Assessment Issues of Sustainability of Rural Area Development Under Digitalization Conditions
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Policies and Economics Measures for Agricultural Development (AgroDevEco 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.001
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200729.001
ID  - Agibalov2020
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