Russian Academy of Public Administration RAPA under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow

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Russian Academy of Public Administration (RAPA)
under the President of the Russian Federation,
MoscowRussian Academy of Science, Far Eastern
BranchEconomic Research Institute (ERI),
KhabarovskMulti-State Working Group on
Environmental Performance, USA

• American-Russian Research and Educational
  Cooperation in Sustainable Development and
  Environmental Performance
• Boris Krasnopolski
• Ph.D., Tenured Professor Deputy Director,
  Research, ERI
• Professor , Environmental Management, RAPA
• David Ronald
• Executive Director, Multi-State Working Group on
  Environmental Performance

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Kremlin, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Contents

• Russian Academy of Public Administration and
  Institute of Economic Research brief
  information.
• American-Russian Research and Educational Project
  in Environmental Performance under Concept of
  Sustainable Development (main goals).
• Main Geographical, Social-Economic and Ecological
  Indicators of Russia and the Current System of
  Environmental Management.
• Russian Far-East A Gateway of Russia in
  Asian-Pacific Region.
• Khabarovsk Krai (territory), the Russian Far East
  (RFE).
• American-Russian Project in Environmental
  Performance (executive summary, statement of
  need, practical significance).
• Organizational and Financial Support for the
  Project.
• Main supposed results of the Project.

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Russian Academy of Public Administration (RAPA)
under the President of the Russian Federation,
Moscow

• RAPA was founded in July 1994 by the RF
  Presidents Executive Order 1140 as a brain
  trust designed to carry out academic retraining,
  research and informational analysis in the field
  of Public Administration, and coordinate efforts
  within the system of professional retraining and
  skill expertise of governmental, business and
  NGOs managers.
• Organizationally the activities of RAPA are
  implemented under direct supervision of the
  Personnel Department of the RF Presidential
  Administration in close cooperation with various
  Federal Government ministries and agencies and
  regional administrations of 88 territories of
  Russia. The Academy embraces a network of 72
  Affiliations and Branches in 67 territories of
  the Russian Federation.
• Key specializations of at the Academy include
• (1) State and Municipal Administration (2)
  Jurisprudence (3) Credit and Finance (4)
  National Economy (5) Labor Economics and Human
  Resource Management (6) Ecology and
  Environmental Management (7) Crisis Management
  (8) Political Science (9) Psychology (10)
  Sociology.

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Russian Academy of Public Administration under
the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
The Academy has a network of 72 Branches and
Affiliations in 67 from 88 territories of the
Russian Federation.
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Russian Academy of Science, Far Eastern
BranchEconomic Research Institute (ERI),
Khabarovsk

• ERI was created in July 1976 in Khabarovsk (a
  capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of
  Russia) in accordance with the Resolution of the
  Presidium of the USSR Academy of Science. The
  Institute has scientific subdivisions in the main
  cities of the Russian Far East (RFE).
• ERI is a leading research institution in RFE in
  the following areas (1) Analysis of the current
  situations and short-time and long-time forecasts
  in social-economic development of the Far Eastern
  Russia (2) the RFE economic cooperation with
  countries of Northeastern Asia and the
  Asian-Pacific region (3) Natural resource
  utilization, and environmental management and
  protection (4) Analyzing and forecasting foreign
  trade and foreign investments (5) Studying
  conditions of foreign markets for export-import
  prognosis (6) Providing cartographic (map)
  support for research projects (7) Retraining
  programs and post-graduate and Ph.D. courses in
  specialties World Economics, Economics and
  Market Economy Management, Finance, Currency
  Circulation and Credit.

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Economic Research Institute (ERI), Far Eastern
Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Khabarovsk.
ERI is a leading research institution in
social-economic sciences and environmental
management in Russian Far East.
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American-Russian Research and Educational
Cooperation in Environmental Performance under
Concept of Sustainable Development

• Name of project
• American-Russian Research and Educational Project
  in Sustainable Development and Environmental
  Performance on the regional level
• Project goals
• Development and implementation of joint
  comparative research programs for studying the
  policy and tools of sustainable development and
  environmental performance of both countries on
  the regional levels (on example of Khabarovsk
  territory, Russian Far East and State of Utah,
  USA)
• Preparation of methodical proposals to use the
  American experience and discovered effective
  mechanisms of environmental performance in the
  Russian regions (on example of sustainable
  development and environmental performance in
  Khabarovsk territory).
• Preparation of educational, training and
  retraining programs for federal, state and
  municipal employees, and managers of private
  companies and NGOs to improve their professional
  skill in cooperative efforts to enhance the
  effectiveness of regional systems of
  environmental performance and protection under
  concept of sustainable development (on the base
  of pilot projects implemented by the regional
  governments of State of Utah and Khabarovsk
  territory in cooperation with MSWG, RAPA and
  ERI).

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