Content №2 от 2006
Altai crossborder biosphere territory: ideas of preservation and development
The paper considers ideology in the creation of the transborder biosphere reserves and the results of the expert conclusion on the possibility to create such a territory in the border areas of Altai, on the cross-section of the borders and geopolitical interests of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Russia. The implementation of such a project will solve many problems of a social-economic and natural-environmental character in the hinterland regions of the above mentioned countries that at the same time have a high ecological status. The paper argues for the choice of the territorial borders of the Altai transborder biosphere territory (TBT) and examines the traits of the social-economic development of the border territories, and future directions of their development within the framework of the biosphere reserve favorable both from the view of preservation of biodiversity and of social-economic development of local communities are named.
