Scientific publications

The article presents a brief analysis of the resource and environmental potential of the Green Belt of Fennoscandia (GBF) in the Murmansk Region and the prospects for the socio-economic development of the territory. It is shown that GBF is a unique object in the European North, which despite the long history of industrial development has retained significant recreational, cultural and environmental value and can be considered as a model of interaction between territorial nature conservation and modern economy, finding for this the relevant economic, legal and management mechanisms. There are mining enterprises on the territory of the GBF and near its borders, the activities of which contradicts with the goals of environmental protection. An alternative to their activities can be specific environmental and socio-economic projects and activities in the fields of tourism, research and development, as well as industrial technologies aimed at the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and the positioning of the GBF as a special territory within Russia and Northern Europe.