Nuclear power in the Baltic Sea region: the history of emergence and the political and economic features of its development
This article focuses on the development of peaceful nuclear power. The author draws attention to the fact that nuclear power is a rather young branch of national economy. However, over recent decades, it has already seen rises and falls, and a number of states have had tragic experiences of nuclear emergencies. Nevertheless, many countries — including the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — express a strong interest in development, generation, and application of nuclear power....
Territorial differences in the innovative development of Sweden, Finland, and the North-western federal district of the Russian Federation
... to Sweden and Finland. The NWFD is proved to lag behind Sweden and Finland in terms of innovative development indices; however, the NWFD shows an increase in such indices in catches up in terms of individual indices (mobile communication density and Internet access availability). The authors offer sketch maps showing similarities in the character of territorial differentiation of innovative processes in the NEFD, Sweden, and Finland (which corresponds to the centreperiphery model).
1. Kapital strany ...
Twin cities: a new form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?
....5922/2079—8555—2009—2—6.
3. Korneevets, V. S. 2010, Mezhdunarodnaja regionalizacija na Baltike [International regionalization in the Baltic Sea], Saint Petersburg.
4. Svetogorsk-Imatra: «dvojnoj gorod» [Svetogorsk-Imatra: «dual city»], Official internet site of the Leningrad Region, available at: http://www. lenobl.ru/gov/municipal/svetogorsk/double (accessed 10 July 2011).
5. Self, P. Goroda vyhodjat iz svoih granic [City out of its borders], 1962, Moscow.
6. Sergunin, A. A. 2003, Vneshnie ...
The Northern Dimension policy: current state and development prospects
This article examines the evolution and current state of the Northern Dimension policy and its role in Russia-EU relations. The authors analyse the discrepancy between the actual achievements of the Northern Dimension and its potential and the over-high expectations, which accompanied the policy renewal.
1. Derjabin, Ju. 2000. Sovremennaja Evropa, № 2. [online] Available at:<http://www.ieras.ru/journal/journal2.2000/6.htm> (Accessed 22 July 2010).
2. Iniciativa po sozdaniju Delovogo soveta...
Negative externalities and sustainability of energy sector
... Tropics.
Cambridge.
28.
Roma A. (2006). Energy, money and pollution. // Ecological Economics.
Nr. 56. P. 534-545.
29.
Rosen, H. S. (2006) Public finance.
7
th
edition. Boston.
30.
Sankar U. (2002). Environmental externalities. / Internet: coe.mse.ac.in/dp/envt-ext-sankar.pdf.
31.
Solow, R. M. (1993). An Almost Practical Step towards Sustainability // Resour.
Policy. No.19. P. 162-172.
32.
Solow, R. M. (1986). On the intergenerational allocation of exhaustible ...
