Content №2 от 2007
Sustainable development in local communities: regulating institutional conditions
The paper analyses the role which public policies play in building the resource and institutional capacities for sustainable development in local communities. The author shows main directions of the federal strategy which would allow the local authorities to use its public property as an instrument of the socio-economic development. The author also shows that the ongoing administrative reform as well as the reforms in local governance, science and education has brought to Russia both the new challenges and the new opportunities to local governance.