SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION WITHIN STRATEGIO PLANNING FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEYELOPMENT OF ST. PETERSBURG
Julia VLASENKOVA
Olga SERGIENKO
Aleksandra PETUKHOVA
Abstract
Since they are subjects of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg and the Leningradskaya Oblast (Leningrad district), as well as other regions of Russia, are implementing the National Strategy of sustainable development. According to the Concept of Transition of the Russian Federation to Sustainable Development, balance between socio-economic goals and protection of the natural environment, together with preserving natural resources, is a real necessity at present [Concept, 1996]. One of the basie documents determining global policy towards sustainable development and preservation of the biosphere is Agenda 21 adopted by the UNO Conference in 1992 in Rio. As a natural continuation of this International document, the Baltic Agenda - 21 acts as a local agenda for the Baltic Sea Region, which formulated the goals of sustainable development for the Baltic States. The same objectives for continued improvement of the socio-economic situation and standards of living of the population were put into operation by the Strategie Plan for the sustainable development of the city of St. Petersburg, created for the first time in 1997 [Strategie Plan, 1997], This paper analyses the achieved level of strategie planning of the city’s development, as well as the sustainability indicators formulated. The authors suggest new indicators describing the condition of natural resource management, which are based on materiał flows entering the
economy of the region and thus providing information for proactive environmental protection activities and strategie planning. Such indicators have been presented by Eurostat in 2001 [Economy-wide materiał flow accounts, 2001] and investigated by specialists of Wuppertal Institute, Germany [Bringezu, 2002]. In the conditions of a łąck of reąuired material flow statistics, as a primary step, it is suggested to use MlPS-analyses of energy efficiency based on the energy balance sheet of the city.
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