Marina I. Imamverdieva

Smart city strategies are increasingly used not only to improve urban services but also to shape intercity positioning, place reputation, and territorial attractiveness. However, the mechanisms through which digital and governance capabilities become credible and socially recognized urban brand assets remain insufficiently specified. This review develops an integrative conceptual framework linking smart city capability portfolios, stakeholder-experienced urban value, institutional urban brand identity, symbolic capital, territorial attractiveness, and durable urban competitiveness. A structured narrative review and concept-centric framework-building design synthesizes 77 substantive scientific and institutional sources; three additional methodological references support the review design. The revised framework specifies a serial but non-deterministic pathway from capability to experienced value, institutional identity and identity congruence, symbolic recognition, attraction, and resource embedding, while also allowing direct experienced-value effects. The synthesis groups the evidence into five capability domains, four forms of stakeholder-experienced value, and three symbolic-capital formation processes and assigns inclusion, co-creation, communication credibility, contextual fit, and multi-level governance to specific conversion paths. The reviewed literature suggests that technology does not create brand value automatically: smart-city capabilities are more likely to support identity and attractiveness when they generate useful, inclusive, visible, and contextually relevant experiences and when identity claims remain consistent with independently observable performance. The contribution therefore lies not in asserting a previously unknown link between smart cities and place branding but in specifying construct boundaries, conversion mechanisms, and empirically testable path-specific propositions.

This article examines oil-spill-related environmental damage in the Russian North as an eco-social risk that affects ecosystems, Indigenous communities, traditional nature management, and territorial welfare. This paper develops a qualitative conceptual analysis based on interdisciplinary document analysis, literature-based synthesis, and illustrative case contextualization. It contributes to debates on eco-social policy and sustainable welfare by arguing that environmental remediation and monetary compensation often remain insufficient when ecological harm disrupts land-based livelihoods, food autonomy, cultural ecosystem services, and Indigenous participation. This article proposes the concept of traditional nature management as a form of territorial welfare: a place-based welfare arrangement that supports food security, mobility, intergenerational knowledge transfer, cultural continuity, and community autonomy. The analysis identifies several interconnected transformation channels through which oil spills affect Indigenous communities: resource degradation, disruption of mobility routes, weakening of traditional food systems, erosion of cultural ecosystem services, compensation conflicts, and marginalization of Indigenous and local knowledge. The synthesis further shows that the most important assessment gaps arise where legally recognized ecological damage is disconnected from fishery and food-system losses, seasonal mobility, cultural ecosystem services, and Indigenous participation. In the context of Russian legal policy, existing mechanisms recognize traditional nature use and compensation for damage to Indigenous habitat and livelihoods, but non-market territorial-welfare losses remain only partially operationalized in environmental damage assessment. The paper argues that these consequences reveal an institutional missing link between environmental liability, social protection, Indigenous rights, and corporate responsibility. To address this gap, this article proposes an eco-social assessment framework that combines economic valuation with participatory mapping, cultural ecosystem service assessment, Indigenous and local knowledge, long-term welfare-oriented compensation, and community-based monitoring. The framework is intended as a conceptual and policy-oriented instrument rather than an empirical valuation model; the 2020 Norilsk diesel spill is used solely as an illustrative vignette to demonstrate the institutional disconnect between legally recognized environmental damage and broader welfare-related losses. The findings are relevant for eco-social policy debates because they show how extractive-sector risks reshape welfare arrangements in peripheral regions and create new entanglements between state responsibility, corporate welfare, and community resilience in the context of conflicting ecological transitions. More broadly, this study demonstrates that sustainable recovery in northern resource-dependent territories requires the integration of ecological restoration, legally grounded compensation, long-term welfare monitoring, and meaningful Indigenous participation. Comparative Russian evidence from the Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs, Sakhalin, and Yakutia further indicates that compensation and benefit-sharing arrangements vary substantially with regard to procedural inclusion and transparency. The framework does not replace existing Russian statutory loss-calculation procedures; its added value is to connect them with community-defined territorial relationships, participatory mapping, co-validation of locally relevant indicators and repeated assessment of welfare recovery.

Environmental damage assessment has become an important institutional component of regional sustainability transitions, especially in resource-dependent northern territories where industrial risks, fragile ecosystems, sparse monitoring networks, and limited institutional capacity intersect. Existing oil-spill valuation approaches provide well-developed legal, economic, and ecosystem-service tools; however, their use as decision-support instruments for compensation governance, prevention investment, monitoring design, and regional resilience policy remains insufficiently operationalized. This article addresses this gap by developing a modular institutional framework for selecting and combining established environmental damage valuation methods under the ecological, legal, data-related, and socio-cultural constraints of the Russian North. The study applies a transparent narrative methodological review and framework-building design based on international and Russian literature, official regulatory sources, natural-resource damage assessment practice, ecosystem-service valuation studies, and publicly available evidence on the 2020 Norilsk diesel fuel spill. The analysis organizes six established valuation approaches into three complementary modules: direct harm, indirect and opportunity-related losses, and non-market ecosystem-service losses. The Norilsk case is used as an illustrative plausibility check rather than a full empirical recalculation. It shows that legally recognized compensation can provide a liability signal, but indirect losses and ecosystem-service components require separate evidence, sensitivity analysis, and double-counting control. The contribution of the article is to adapt established valuation methods into a transparent decision-support protocol that links environmental liability, compensation governance, prevention, monitoring, institutional resilience and regional sustainability transitions in Arctic and sub-Arctic resource regions.

In modern conditions, a comfortable urban environment is an important component of improving the population life quality. The creation of conditions for the implementation and effective realization of the directions of state programs, national projects, and municipal programs related to the formation of a comfortable urban environment makes it possible to rationally use the advantages of the territory and neutralize the negative impact of internal and external factors. The article presents an analysis of the municipal program “Formation of a comfortable urban environment for the period up to 2030”. Attention is focused on the key elements of the subprograms, as well as on the problems hindering their effective implementation. In the course of the research, the authors systematized the conditions and opportunities for the development of the city of Surgut, and also formulated conclusions about the importance and necessity of forming a comfortable urban environment.

An important element in strategic and operational planning, as well as in determining the positioning of an enterprise in market conditions, is an assessment of the sustainable development of companies. A sufficient level of assessment and forecasting of financial and economic indicators allows enterprises to identify key elements and opportunities for implementing the concept of sustainable development, which nowadays is a necessary and fundamental component and the basis for improving the efficiency of functioning. The article demonstrates an analysis of methods for assessing the financial and economic component of sustainable development. The authors are focused on the financial sector of the Environmental, Social, and Governance approach, as well as on the comparison of the author’s sustainable development methods as the most important component of the functioning of a modern enterprise.

Sustainable development in the aspect of the organization’s activities is an important component of the formation and integration of the key elements of the functioning of a modern enterprise. The article considers the features and trajectories of the development of the social component as the most important factor in the formation and implementation of the concept of sustainable development. The complexity and versatility of this category lies in the variety of approaches and methods for identifying key elements. Focusing on the social component, it is necessary to note its importance not only for the employees of the organization, but also for the external environment of the enterprise. The relevance of the presented topic, as well as its significance for the popularization and practical implementation of the concept of sustainable development, are due to the orientation of enterprises towards the qualitative implementation of the principles of the ESG approach, as well as the complexity and versatility of this category. In the course of the study, the authors considered the importance of human resources for sustainable development, identified the elements and directions of industrial growth staffing, analyzed the impact of the modern digital environment on the social component of the functioning of enterprises.

Автор(ы): / опубликовано в журнале № /2021 Устойчивое развитие промышленных предприятий – важное условие функционирования современных организаций. Устойчивое развитие – необходимый элемент для реализации сильных сторон организации. На устойчивое развитие оказывают влияние факторы внешней и внутренней среды предприятия. Внешние факторы обусловлены целями институтов, оказывающих непосредственное влияние на устойчивое развитие. Внутренние факторы представляют собой основные компоненты деятельности организации, которые могут трансформироваться в зависимости от условий внешней среды, стадии жизненного цикла и сферы деятельности предприятия. Автором идентифицированы факторы, оказывающие влияние на формирование устойчивого развития промышленных предприятий. Определены цели институциональных агентов в разрезе устойчивого развития предприятия. Проанализированы подходы к определению понятия «устойчивое развитие». Статья представляет научный интерес для специалистов и ученых, рассматривающих проблему формирования устойчивого развития промышленных предприятий.