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Economic development in the Kola region, USSR: an overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Vladimir A. Doiban ,
Michael Pretes  and
Alexei V. Sekarev
Vladimir A. Doiban
Affiliation:
Institute of Economic Studies, Kola Science Centre, Murmansk Branch, 2a-27 Volodarskogo Street, 183021 Murmansk, USSR
Michael Pretes
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Northern Finland, University of Oulu, Linnanmaa, 90570 Oulu, Finland
Alexei V. Sekarev
Affiliation:
Institute of Economic Studies, Kola Science Centre, 14 Fersman Street, 184200 Apatity, Murmanskya Oblast', USSR
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Abstract

The Kola region of northwestern USSR is the most highly developed area of the circumpolar north. Development based on exploitation and industrial refinement of natural resources, especially minerals and fish, has produced severe environmental damage in Kola and in neighbouring Norway and Finland. This article reviews the region's resources, existing development strategy and damage, and propose an alternative strategy that is environmentally and socially more benign. Possibilities for reducing the region's ties to central planning authorities and integration of the economy with that of norther Europe are also considered.

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Polar Record , Volume 28 , Issue 164 , January 1992 , pp. 7 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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