Forestry Budget Efficiency in the Context of Sustainable Forest Management
- Authors: Petrunin N.A.1, Smolennikova L.V.2
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Affiliations:
- Saint Petersburg Forestry Research Institute
- Volga State University of Technology
- Issue: No 4 (2024)
- Pages: 84-95
- Section: ФИНАНСЫ
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2306-2800/article/view/292208
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25686/2306-2800.2024.4.84
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/LCVJUD
- ID: 292208
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Abstract
Introduction. At the present stage of economic development, forestry management is aimed at ensuring sustainable forest management, innovative and efficient use, conservation, protection and reproduction of forests for the accelerated growth of the forest sector of the economy, social and environmental security of the country.
The purpose of the study is to assess the budget efficiency of forestry management and lay the groundwork for achieving the targets set forth in the Forest Code of the Russian Federation in terms of organizing sustainable forest management based on the rational, inexhaustible and multi-purpose forest use. Methods. The study employed a system approach, as well as a historical method, formal logical methods (abstract logical, deduction, qualitative and quantitative content analysis, induction, synthesis, classification, and systematization).
Results. The study has explored the dynamics of payments for the use of forest resources in consolidated budget revenues in recent years. It has been established that budget revenues exceed forestry expenditures funded by subsidies from the federal budget and budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation, i.e. budget efficiency in forestry management is achieved. The revenues to the budgetary system of the Russian Federation from the use of forests, including those per 1 ha of forest fund lands, exhibit an upward trend, formed, among other factors, under the influence of measures aimed at supporting the forest complex by the state and diversification of international markets. At the same time, the growth rate of expenses on the implementation
of state forest management functions lags behind both the dynamics of payments for timber and the total costs of exercising powers in the field of forest relations, which generates economic and social risks in forestry management.
Conclusion. In order to improve the sustainability of forest management, it is necessary to build a system for monitoring the performance of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the execution of the delegated powers in the field of forest relations and, as a result, the budget efficiency of forestry.
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About the authors
Nikolay A. Petrunin
Saint Petersburg Forestry Research Institute
Email: SmolennikovaLV@volgatech.net
SPIN-code: 5979-0376
Deputy Director
Russian Federation, 21, Institutsky Pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194021Lyudmila V. Smolennikova
Volga State University of Technology
Author for correspondence.
Email: SmolennikovaLV@volgatech.net
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7742-1079
SPIN-code: 8835-4175
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Head
of the Department of Finance, Economics and Organization of Production
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