Open AccessRole of Cultural Heritage in the Sustainable Development of Rural Settlements
Author(s) -
Anastasiia Sedova,
Alevtina Balakina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/753/3/032080
Subject(s) - human settlement , rural area , rural settlement , cultural heritage , sustainable development , globalization , population , urbanization , sustainability , economic growth , geography , development economics , economy , business , political science , economics , sociology , archaeology , ecology , demography , law , biology
World spread globalization is a continuously process which necessitate growing of big cities with prospering metropolises and the process of emptiness small cities and countryside. The problem of the extinction of the Russian countryside is one of the acute social and economic problems of modern Russia. What is more, according to The World Bank’s data, the tendency of the decrease in the share of the rural population is also relevant for countries of Europe and the USA. Likewise, in Russia, for 8 years from 2002 to 2010 the number of abandoned villages had rocketed from 13 to 19.5 thousand. Hence, amount of abandoned rural cultural heritage properties, such as country estates, churches, graveyards is continuously increasing. The paper analyses the ways of how the implementation of modern business models for the above obsolete properties can contribute to the regeneration of rural settlements. Moreover, the research reports the driving forces of the regeneration, barriers, risk and opportunities given by the shift to new governance model as an aspect of sustainable development.