Strengthening the role of the forest potential of low-forest regions of the Russian Federation to increase the pace of socio-economic development and balance the interests of the population, business and administrative structures

Kozhuhov Nikolay Ivanovich, Tikhomirov Evgeny Alexandrovich

Forest deficient regions of the Russian Federation, which are located mainly in the European part of the Russian Federation, are included in the steppe and forest-steppe zones of our country. On the example of the Orenburg, Samara and Saratov regions of the Volga Federal District, which have a low forest cover, the possibilities of enhancing the role of the forest potential due to the intensification of recreational and protective forest management, streamlining the spatial organization of agroforest landscapes are shown. It justifies the need for agricultural producers of various forms of ownership to create new and reconstruction of existing agroforestry objects. It is proposed, on the basis of neural network tools, to develop models for the rational distribution of economic entities and the development of a regional economic space for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which allow balancing the pace and scale of modernization of both technogenic and socio-natural subsystems in order to increase the combined synergetic effect in the interests of the population, business and territorial governance structures.

Keywords:forest potential, forest cover of the territory, agroforest landscapes, regional economic space