PROGRAM OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH AS SCIENTIFIC BASE OF SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Abstract

In the article the problem on scientific support of the state strategic decisions in the field of the country’s spatial development is discussed. As a scientific base of strategic planning spatial development the author proposed to use the results of scientific research received in the course of fulfilling a long-term series of academic scientific research programs on fundamental problems of modern Russia’s spatial development. The point is in the unprecedented for both domestic and, apparently, the world science scientific mega-project signifying a new interdisciplinary type of research on a wide range of prior for modern Russian reality theoretical and applied issues that form the supporting framework of the newest actual spatial problems. This large-scale, multidisciplinary, compound organized project was conceived, prepared and launched in 2009 and is still being realized. In the article a description is given of both theoretical and methodological approach, methodological tools and forms of organizing scientific research within the framework of the mentioned project and its results.