Management of territories that accommodate advanced timber industry enterprises (as illustrated by Sweden and Russia)

Introduction. This article describes approaches to the urban planning of territories that accommodate advanced timber industry enterprises in Sweden and Russia (as illustrated by the Arkhangelsk region). The system of territorial and spatial planning of settlements and regions and the management of territories that accommodate advanced timber industry enterprises in Sweden are based on the latest developments in forest use and reforestation research. The established forest plantation system ensures the operation of wood processing plants on the principles of continuity and rational use of forest resources, maintenance of the existing settlement system, preservation of the transport accessibility needed to deliver timber for production processes. The site planning system applied to timber industry enterprises in Russia features a mismatch between a traditional approach to the wood processing plant deployment and advanced data and facts related to forest use and reforestation. The comparison of the Swedish and Russian experience is substantiated by the relevance of this research problem for the practical development of the timber industry in Russia. Materials and methods. This study was conducted on the basis of the public data and the works published by Russian and foreign authors. The system analysis of urban planning solutions developed for the areas occupied by wood processing enterprises in Sweden and the Arkhangelsk region was employed by the co-authors. Results. The territory management system employed by wood processors in Sweden is presented and its applicability to timber industry enterprises of the Arkhangelsk region, aimed at the improvement of the structure of the local territory and space is assessed. Conclusions. The Swedish model applied to the management of sites occupied by wood processing enterprises is fundamentally different from the one used in Russia. The Swedish experience has proven the efficiency of an intensive model of forest use, and it can be applied to the research of the territorial and spatial structure of the land-use management system employed by settlements in the Arkhangelsk region.