N. Yu. Zubarev1 , L. V. Glezman2, S. S. Fedoseeva2 , Yu. N. Zubarev3
1 Perm State University, Perm, Russia
2 Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm branch, Perm, Russia
3 Perm State Agrarian and Technological University named after Academician D. N. Pryanishnikov, Perm, Russia
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Volume 25 No. 7
Date of paper submission: 14.04.2025, date of review: 15.05.2025, date of acceptance: 27.05.2025.
Published: 07/31/2025
Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of sustainable development of regions-leading agricultural production. The purpose is to assess the sustainable development of the leading regions of agricultural production on the basis of diagnostics and analysis of the decoupling effect, as the most promising and reliable tool to determine the level and nature of the relationship between economic growth and the environmental load. Objectives: identification of the leading regions of agricultural production in the Russian Federation; analysis of the dynamics of economic growth and environmental load in the leading regions of agricultural production; study of the sustainability of the development of the leading regions of agricultural production based on the analysis of the relationship between economic activity and environmental impact by means of diagnostics and assessment of the decoupling effect. The research methods were statistical data analysis and decoupling analysis using P. Tapio’s model, which made it possible to determine the existence of the decoupling effect and study its characteristics. Scientific novelty is to integrate P. Tapio’s model into the author’s methodological toolkit for assessing the sustainable development of regions leading in agricultural production on the basis of diagnostics and analysis of the decoupling effect. The results of the study showed that the leadership of regions in agricultural production is due not only to geographical location and agro-climatic potential, but also to the sustainable development of agricultural production based on the increase in output and reduction of pollutant emissions into the air, which was diagnosed and proved by assessing the decoupling elasticity coefficient. Regional agro-climatic peculiarities determine the specifics of agricultural production development providing certain regions with competitive advantages, but the sustainable development of agro-industrial complex is achievable only through the introduction of promising innovative technologies and solutions in agricultural production, aimed at rational and conservation nature and resource use, reducing the negative impact on the environment and achieving a balance in human-nature interaction. The results of the study develop the methodological basis for analysing the sustainable development of the agro-industrial complex of the Russian regions in terms of achieving the goals of sustainable development.
Keywords: sustainable development, agricultural production, agriculture, region, decoupling model, environmental impact
Acknowledgments. The research was carried out in accordance with the Research Plan of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
For citation: Zubarev N. Yu., Glezman L. V., Fedoseeva S. S., Zubarev Yu. N. Sustainable development of the leading regions of agricultural production. Agrarian Bulletin of the Urals. 2025; 25 (07): 1117‒1128. https://doi.org/10.32417/1997-4868-2025-25-07-1117-1128 (In Russ.)
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